Camping in Pakchong

Last week, I went to Pakchong, Korat, for a Kai-Song-Morb camp. It’s a camp for our Law Faculty students. You might wonder what this camp is about. This camp is about the Law Faculty Committee’s meeting. The former faculty’s committee gave information and suggestions of how to run the job to the new coming committee, which will replace them in the next school year. It’s our tradition to have this camp every year.
I am an Assistant Treasurer of ALSA. I am sure that you certainly know what my job is about. First of all, just in case you do not know, “ALSA” stands for “Asian Law Students Association”. This is an international organization. In Thailand, there are three participants which are Assumption University, Julalongkorn University, and ChiangMai University. At the camp, most of the time, I just sat bored listening to the former committee’s discussion.
On the first day, we left ABAC at 1.00pm and arrived the venue at 5.00pm. It was a very long trip. We all were tired when we got there. The venue was impressive though. It belongs to one of our law students. It settled in a valley. We could see a view of mountains and rivers. They also had a ranch. They had numbers of cows and they had a baby-cow too. It was so adorable. They provided us two big rooms, one for boys and one for girls. Some of us had to sleep in tents because there was not enough space. Our first activity at the camp is having dinner! Then they let us take a shower. After that it was all tensed activities. We had to do a presentation. We had to present a project to the former committee like we are going to have to do to the school board in the next school year. They made it like a real situation. The atmosphere is very tense, and that really bother my nerve. The activity went on until almost 3 o’clock in the morning. The second day was even worse. It was all discussion. And we had a game that we have to do sit-up. What kind of a game was that? Were we in a military training or something? It was so boring and my legs were so sore. At night, as you can guess, we do discussion, again. But we finished early that night, at about midnight. There was a time for us to play cards. It went on until about 3.30am, when the teacher drove us to bed. Then came the last day! I was ready to leave. Our last activity was doing an evaluation and a conclusion of a year-plan activities.
We left the venue about afternoon. First we planned on going for a small trip, but we were all tired and just wanted to go home. We arrived Bangkok at about 5.00pm. I am glad to be home. But now it is time to get back to face the real world, the final exam is less than a month. No time for a relief.