Report on Farewell BBQ Party

On Sunday, 8 July 2012, the incoming Board of Directors for the LEO club of SMK Assunta for the fiscal year 2012/2013, organised a farewell party for the Form 5 Leos. The event was held in Section 8, Petaling Jaya at the residence of Leo Hemalaxmi Nanthakumar, the incoming Vice President. The Leos started arriving at 4.15 p.m. A few Leos had arrived earlier to help set up the tables, chairs and prepare the things needed for the games that would be held. Each Leo was required to bring food and/or beverages as it was a potluck. The hungry Leos started eating at once! At around 5.45pm, the Leos were asked to form a circle so that we could start playing the games that were planned. The first game required the Leos to each guess a number between 1 and 100, and, if she guessed one of the four predetermined numbers, a balloon filled with flour would be popped over her head.
For the next game, everyone was divided into 4 groups. One group at a time, each person had to run across the garden to retrieve a packet drink and run back. On the way to retrieve the packet drink, however, the runners would have water balloons thrown at them. The moment the person got wet, they were eliminated from the game. This game wasn’t entirely successful, though, because, the water balloons had run out very quickly and the Leos had to resort to using containers of water as well as water hoses to get the runners wet. In half an hour, almost everyone had forgotten the point of the game and everyone had a lot of fun running around and splashing water at their friends. It was a good thing that most of the Leos had brought a change of clothes! As soon as everyone had changed into their dry clothes, we started the gift exchange. All the Leos were told to bring a gift that cost RM10 or less. The gifts were put in the centre of our circle and Leo Azarelle started calling out our numbers. Whenever a Leo’s number was called out, she had the choice to either choose a present from the pile in the centre, or to ‘steal’ someone else’s
present. If someone’s present was stolen, they’d have to pick another present from the pile. After that, we started cleaning up, all the Leos chipped helped and before long, the area was tidy again. For the remainder of the night, the Leos had fun just sitting around, laughing with friends, eating more food, and altogether, having a lot of fun. At around 8.30pm, the exhausted Leos started going home. Many Leos stayed back to help finish the cleaning up and by 10.30pm all the Leos had left. All in all, the farewell party was very successful and fun-filled and all the Form 5 Leos had a lot of fun.

 Prepared by,
Leo Isabelle Anusya Raj.