Mukhayyam day-1

Hey guys! Just got back from camping or a.k.a, mukhayyam! Held at FRIM by the way. Actually ended at 2.00 PM at school but then after my dad picked me up we went to go look for a few things.

First day.*

9.00 AM (At school).

We all gathered in the downstairs hall after breakfast. We lined up in our camping groups and waited for the bus; the boys were going to board the first bus so we girls had to wait for the second bus to come.

While waiting for the second bus, Teacher Noraini made us say the asma-ul-husna. Right after we finished, the second bus arrived and we boarded the bus. My group was the first one to go on.

9.40 AM (Time of arrival).

With excitement, we all got off the bus and followed Teacher Noraini on a rocky pathway. The walk was kind of tricky as for some of us were bringing big bags.

When we all got to the campsite, we all left our bags near the assemble hall and went down to the campsite. I looked up and saw that our campsite was called ‘Kem Perah’.  

10.00 AM (Time of camp event starting).

We had a talk from one of the staff there. His name was Bohari but we could call him Brother Bo. He gave us a briefing on the place. FRIM’s history, things to do and things not to do, certain places for certain needs and more.

We all listened very carefully as we knew that all these information would turn out to be useful later. It turns out that you can’t even pluck out a leaf from the trees there; how strict is that rule?

10.30 AM (The real start).

Brother Bo finally finished talking. After that, we had to set up our tents. And man was that a real challenge! The metal bars were tied up, it was so, so very hard to get the tent out of the bag. The other groups were doing fine while it seemed like my group was the only one that was suffering from difficulties.

11.00 AM (Finished setting up tents.)

We finished setting up the tents. After that activity, we had many more such as jungle tracking, sewing class and not to forget lunch and Zuhur prayer.

Jungle tracking involved mosquitos all over your body and cicadas making buzzing sounds that creep the heck out of you. After jungle tracking my body was full of mosquito bites and I was scratching all over.

6.00 PM (Fun time beginsJ.)

We had to cook dinner! Of course with the help of our facilitators. But yet it was challenging. Everyone in our group had a job to do. One of our members by the name of Hana, accidentally hit her finger with the knife while cutting the spinach.

Because of that she was excused from doing any work that involves washing or sharp things.

7.00 PM (Success!)

We finished cooking and ate. We had sardines, rice and spinach. It was delicious.

After dinner we all had to clean our pots, trays and materials. The problem was that some of them were burnt and we had to clean off the burn stains which took an hour to do.

8.00 PM (After the washing.)

We prayed and guess what? Ameera, Najla, Balqis and I still hadn’t bathed! All because we had to clean off the burn stains. My skin that was on my finger had pealed off because of the scrubbing, my hijab was totally black too!

After maghrib prayer, the four of us zoomed off to the toilet for a bath. After that we ran back to the assemble hall to pray Isha’.

After Isha’ we had other activities such as a short lecture by Mr.Rahman, a lesson on how to aid your friend when he or she is injured and also had supper.

12.00 AM (Bed time.)

We all got into our tents and went to sleep. We soon had to wake up for Hirasah at 3.30 AM-4.00 AM.

So, guys I think that I’ll continue the next part tomorrow Insha-Allah.

Jzk!