My June Holidays

The june school holidays had just begun .Everybody were very excited and looking forward to go out with their friends and families.Well as for me,i had my NCC specialist course which was from the 2nd to the 5th of june to attend to followed by my United states trip in conjunction to NCC from the 5th june to the 19th june. I had a very tight schedule whereby i really had to prioratise my time well to complete my school assignments.

Well ever since the school holidays started, i began to work on my school assignments until the spec course.Then once i went for my specialist course on 2nd june, it was a very exhausting and brain draining time for me.we had to go for lecture every single day .And sitting in the lecture theaters made us all fall asleep .But if we caught dozing off,we would be reprimanded and seriously punished.Then as the days went by, we had our drills,general specialist knowledge,individual field craft ,marksmanship fundamentals,stripping and assembling of rifles tested .These were the tests conducted to test of our knowledge and a opportunity to prove the we are capable of being a leader.

Everybody had to complete the whole course until the 5th june unless a valid reason as for me as i had the international cadet exchange programme to United States i left on the 3rd of june at 11pm.
the following the day i completed packing my bag and spent time with my family and before i knew it ,i was flying in the plane to Texas.I was really looking forward to the trip .Once we reached Texas , colonel Dennis who is the in charge and founder of lone star summer leadership school picked us all up and brought us to Randolph air base to stay in.then we stayed there for two days and he brought us around the city of Texas and showed us around.Texas was very hot , humid and dry.But it was a beautiful city and a very nice place.there we a lot of sightseeing and tourist attractions.

After the 2 days stay in Randolph air base, i had to move in to our lone star summer leadership school where we had to stay for about one week.The lone star summer leadership school is where our leadership course is being held.Our main aim in this course is to learn their drills and widen our knowledge of junior air force cadets.From the day i booked into the camp till the very last day it was drills all the way.IN between from the 4th day onwards we went to do outdoor activities such as high rope element's courses , kayaking,water rafting,and many more.throughout the camp we had to bond in with the cadet from all over US and i managed to communicate well with them and asked them doubts .

All of the Singapore cadets who went there had a great fun time.then on the last we had a parade where the parents of the cadets were invited to come and see their child perform and take award or certificate.After we had the official US parade we had a mini Singapore parade comprising of just 12 cadets and we had to perform Singapore drills and show to the parents and all the other cadets.when we completed our performance we had lot of cheers and a lot of people supporting us.we were very honored and proud of ourselves.Then after our performance we were all given certificates by the colonel and that ended our day in the camp.

After that we returned to Singapore.Its was very sad that we had to live our friends behind but we have to adapt and get used to it.