From the period from 10-12 April 2009, fellow Rover Scouts Mohd Afiq, Ashok Kumar, Mohd Isa, Ong May Lwin, Daniel Soo & myself took part in the 4th Scouts of the World Discovery Workshop organised by the Singapore Scout Association.
Basically, the SW Discovery is kind of an adventure workshop lasting several days, mainly focusing on environment, development or peace.
During the course of this workshop, I felt that everyone who attended really wanted to do their little part in helping to save mother Earth, and are taking a step out of their comfort zone.
It was also through the well-planned field trips to Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research & to Tanjong Rimau, whereby I got the chance to view the some of the well- preserved artifacts in the museum. And from the intertidal walk at Tanjong Rimau, which was conducted at 4am in the morning, I managed to witness some of our local shores beautiful underworld.
We were also tasked to come up with our very our proposal, consisting of about 2-3 people per group, to actually brainstorm for realistic projects which we can work on. It was during this period of the workshop, when almost all the participants were cracking their heads & working through the night on coming up with the "perfect proposal".
But even though of the lack of sleep, I felt that it was for a good cause, and still enjoyed the rest of the workshop, with the strong energy level from everyone, and definitely the inside jokes that we cracked along the way!
Having learnt the many different kinds of skill from this workshop, I would hope to be able to put them to good use. Nonetheless, I also made quite a number of good fellow brother & sister Rovers, and I strongly hope that more people will go for this SWA Discovery Workshop.
To sum it up, I felt that this workshop was the workshop of the millenium, and that it was well organised with all the hands-on activities and interaction between the fellow participants and the facilitators.
Written By - Rover Scout Parry Lim
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