"I tasted the sea...."

I went for politeknik camp on the 13th to the 15th of October. The theme for the camp was "Hendaklah engkau menjadi teladan pada masa mudamu." Quite a strong theme, i thought to myself. I was asked to give two workshops and i only have three days to prepare (they only asked me three days before).

The camp was held in camp permai. A camp site which the CF has been faithfully gone over the years. Probably one of the reason being is that the camp site has a beautiful beach. It's ashamed that i didn't have my camera with me. I could have taken some pictures and upload it in the blog.

Pendekkan cerita, i manage to prepare. We had a group dynamic for the first workshop. It was something similiar to a treasure hunt. One of the station was the beach. The task on the beach was simple, find a coke hidden somewhere. There's this one guy by the name of Sam, after his group found the coke, he ran to the end of the beach where the sea met the sand. Then he folded his long trousers up to his knee and went deeper in to the sea. He tightens his fingers as if he was begging, dip his hand into the sea and pull out a handful portion of seawater. Then he did the unexpected, he drank it.

There was this shine on his face. It was almost as if he was enlighten. Then he ran to me and said this. "Bro Ray. Betul apa orang kata selama ini. Laut tu memang masin.." You may be laughing, but i wish you could his face when he said those words. There were expresions of innocence and pure at heart. I was so moved. I could almost feel beads of tears in my eye.

It somehow remind me of our first love for God. Do we still come to God with this innocence and pure at heart...? i wonder...