This year’s Mission Hills Easter Camp have been as successful as ever with over 165 campers and companions joining us for this full two day event to experience the magic of camp.

We had another very big turnout for this particular camp, thus the need to have two meeting points in Kowloon and a total of 4 buses packed full of excited campers set off early last Saturday to the Mission Hills resort, Shenzhen.

After about 1 hour 45 minutes on the buses from Kowloon, we arrived at our destination, the Mission Hills Country Club, the entire Mission Hills Estate looked absolutely amazing! Just by first glance, it looked indeed a wonderful place for both young and old to relax and have fun!

Under the direction of Camp Commander, Charles Yang and his team of staff, once everyone was settled in at the main function room, our “2007 Mission Hills Easter Camp” commenced with the opening ceremony. Camp Chief, Ken give everyone a quick introduction and orientation of what was expected of them for the next two days and our general camping schedule for the next two days. Everyone was then split into 6 groups, each team were to come up with a team name and slogan for their particular team as well as their chosen Team Leader.

The competition then begun -After a few warm up exercises and getting to know each other, the serious competition started and each team were enthusiastically competing to win points for their particular team.

After lunch, the children later went through a round of wit-testing orienteering, which turn out to be like more like the Mission Hill’s Amazing Race challenge rather than orienteering!

Throughout the first day, the weather was particularly kind to the campers, who were able to enjoy an array of outdoor fun and games; some of them took part in Archery, cycling, tennis, and putting green practice

It was just amazing to see everyone participated whole-heartedly and passionately in all activities and sessions. Everyone was particularly impressed with all the kids efforts during the evening entertainment quiz night. Hands all went up in the air within seconds of the questions and everyone was battling it out to get additional points for their team!

Sunday started leisurely with more outdoor ball games, team building exercises as well as Kite flying and the opportunity to try your skills at making some glutinous rice dumplings. Despite the lack of sleep from the previous night, everyone still mustered up his or her spirits to take part in all the sessions.

After lunch, it was more vigorous exercise for everyone, the resort had a big swimming pool and although it wasn’t at the Country Club, the resort itself had free shuttle buses which took everyone, everywhere inside the resort – the less active ones went swimming in their amazing pool while the more active ones went for an energetic round of water gun battle fights in the grounds of the Country Club.

All good things come to an end and before we knew it, it was time to say good-bye to this gorgeous resort. At 4.00pm came the climax of our camp, it was time to add up the scores and award the prizes to the team who finished first and it was the team lead by camper, Ma Kwok Wing and his “E Miou” Team.

The Mission Hills Easter camp was particularly memorable as all the weekend activities were especially designed to draw everyone together uniting them in games, sports, fun and other activities. The Country Club complex provided the ideal venue for our campers and companions to spend some time together during our Easter Camp and strengthening their friendship!