Training CS princesses to be tough

SMK Convent Sentul girls are quite genteel, orderly and feminine. These qualities  are great assets especially in  areas like toilets and general maintenance so I rate our our school toilets the best toilets among the the previous 5 schools I have taught in.Thank God!


However our gentle girls are not very accustomed to tough adventurous settings. The recent CS trip of 40 girls and 5 teachers to Broga Outbac in Lenggeng, Negeri Sembilan  was a awesome challenge and training in toughness and adventure to all of us, me included! On arrival at Outbac, we were awed by the steep ladder climb to the flying fox launch. Then we watched open mouthed as student after student came down on the flying fox, flying from on high to cross a shallow lake and landing. Could CS girls do this? Could I or the teachers do it? 

Coming down the flying fox across a pond

Teachers Pn Pamela, me and Pn Pamela all decked out in helmet and harness for our flying fox!

I am pleased to report that about 40+ teachers and girls completed the awesome flying fox challenge, including 3 teachers - Pn Anna, me and Pn Pamela. Of course we were terrified and like the girls said " "Freaking awesomely frightening, teacher, especially when we climbed up the stairs and see how high we are. Worse when we stand up there and waiting to take off! Aiyoh! But when we are flying already, it is so cool! Teacher, can we do this again?"


For all of us, completing the flying fox was a real challenge! We learned to conquer our fears, yes we felt the fears very clearly since we are not robots as you know quite well. But we did not let our inner  fears daunt us and stop us from achieving our goals. Syabas CS! Congratulations for conquering your fears!

Another event that had us in stitches and a lot of laughter was the water obstacles race. We were broken into 4 groups. Each person had to enter the shallow pond through 5 choices; ladder walk, log walk, tyres, drum boat or rope. You met a kind of drum in the middle and then cross over the drum to choose another form of exit. You could not exit the pond by the same way you came in. We were afraid to get wet and dirty at first! But all of us fell into the shallow pond at some point and created lots of laughter for the viewers. This was a very happy fun event!

Durga exits by the tyre route

CS girl enters by the log. Someone fell into the drum while making her exit.

Durga on rope just before she fell into the water! Some one exits the log

Next morning, we got up at 4.30 am and were ready for briefing at 5.30 am. We started our walk in pitch darkness towards Broga Hill. Our torches were so very necessary then! The walk was quite challenging but the trail up the hill was really crowded.

Victorious Veronica! Thumbs up for a mighty victory!

I am pleased to again report that 37 girls and teachers out of 45 made it to the top at peak 1 Broga Hill before 7.10 am. I am especially proud of Veronica Shalini who despite an injury made it to the top in good time! We gave a rousing Mighty Convent School Cheer right at the top and had everybody wondered who we were! Our Convent cheer goes like this!.

We are Convent, mighty mighty convent!

Everywhere we go, people want to know

Who we are?

So we tell them, we are Convent,

Mighty Mighty Convent!

Oh yeah!!!

That inspired the other schools to give their school cheer too! We also sang our school song gustily at the top at about 7.35 am!

We are really thankful for this wonderful opportunity to toughen up the princesses of SMK Convent Sentul. I am really struck by some lines ( highlighted ) in our school song through this event.

"Oh Hark now hear our joyful cries of pride in our school

Stedfast are we in our duty, simple in virtue.

We pledge to you our loyalty and hardship we endure,

We will strive to make you proud, the school that we adore,

Oh Lord, we pray for guidance and blessings on our way

Help us to accept success and failure in work and play

Oh Hark, now hear our joyful cries of pride in our school

Stedfast are in our duty, simple in virtue

Singing our school song and giving the Mighty Convent cheer  on top of Broga Hill were the joyful cries of pride  in our school! I was proud of the girls who endured the hardships in this camp. In all things, we need to pray for guidance and blessings on our way. God answered our prayers for blessings! We were blessed by wonderful weather when we went up! Only after we had come down and reached camp safely, there was a downpour of rain for about 40 minutes. For those of us who did not make it up the hill, we embrace success and failure! And Broga Outbac Camp was work and play!

I want to express my thanks to the teachers  who worked very hard to make this wonderful trip possible. They are Datin Cheam, Ms Anne, Pn Anna. Pn Pamela. I am also very touched by the wonderful students who planned many details and showed great leadership skills and discipline. They are Diana, Veronica and many others who worked very hard! I also thank those Yvone who generously donated  towards this camp! Thank you!