I could not believe it but I woke up at 4pm today. I slept from 12pm yesterday to 4pm which was about 16 hours of sleep. It was all because I did not have enough sleep and that I was sick. When I woke up, I had to quickly pack my pack again because of our upcoming survival camp. Today we had a meeting to check over our equipment and a small lecture which started at 7:30. However we arrived at 7:45 and we ran inside and interrupted the speaker. Oh well, he was only explaining his life and how he was a total loser in his teenage years at Hong Kong. But he was part of a leadership program like Vision Youth which led him to find a goal in life. And now he lives in a big house, has a family and receives a six digit income. That made me surprised how a loser can suddenly become rich like that. I admire him for his courage and his hardwork to get to what he has right now! His name was Edmund and he helped check over our camping gear because apparently it was very important especially for a Survival Camp.
Then one of our counselor started to state some ground rules for this exchange which had never happened before. We had never gotten any rules to oblige to before and we felt that something terrible happened. We found out that the Vancouver people literally hated us because we made their lives miserable. They had sent a hate email about our problems and hey were on considering of not having another exchange with Vision Youth ever again because of us. They had problems with our attitudes and our lack of preparation. For our camps, we were never fully prepared, either missing hiking boots, sleeping mats or something else. They were really really strict about everything and every little thing counts. Our leader was really pissed off because he was planning on attending the Survival Camp but now he needs to go to a conference tomorrow morning to talk with the Vancouver people. Apparently, a bunch of us will not pass this qualifying hike and I think I was one of them because of my lack of preparation. Oh well, I am prepared for the worst anyways.
Another counselor said, there is always two sides of the story and asked us to explain ourselves. He did not believe that we were that crazy and stupid to do all that stuff. We explained ourselves but I guess we were partly wrong. The methods of teaching in Toronto and Vancouver were really different and I guess we were not able to adapt to their traditional method of getting the job done or receive punishment. However I somewhat agree with the Vancouver people, the people from Vision Youth are too lazy and they fool around too much. Finally, we can understand that we have something wrong and that we must change ourselves because our current state has a lot of problems. Although many of the Vision Youth people complain about the disrespect of the Vancouver people, I will side with the Vancouver people because they are right. Although their way of punishment is a little too extreme, they are right though.
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