Back again!!!I enjoyed my orientation, just like all of you did.Though it was a little bit lonely. We were only shifted to our class today, as we were in groups of mixed Year 1 and Year 2s during the 3 day orientation. My class, R1, had 22 people and 21 of them were chitchatting non-stop. Who do you think was the 22th one?
Guessed it?Yes, its me.They have made friends and I have not yet done anything. At least orientation groups were better, I had a friend. But she's in R3.I am sooo lonely. *Sigh*Let me start with day one, I have no wish for the no
friends problem to bug me yet.
2 Jan 08
Woke up at 5.30 a.m and got out of the house with my mum at 6a.m.
What do you think I did next?Take taxi? Take bus 99 or 242?
Supposingly I wanted to go to Jurong Point at the cheapest rate, so, you know the answer and I shall not elaborate any further. Reached the MRT station and took the train to Kallang. It was around 7.25a.m. then. Waited a long time for bus 12 which surely did take its own sweet time coming.Phew, the 1hr41mins journey has ended and I reached school before 8a.m. We(Year 1 and 2s) were seated in a small open-air space, with a wooden stage in front and music dancing in our ears. Around us were men with enormous black cameras,trotting up and down, stopping here and there. I thought they were camera men, but what do you think they are?
REPORTERS!!!!!
There were camera men too, clicking here and there while we were taking our pledge and all.Cameras flashed almost immediately when the two VIPs, the principal and one of the ministers stepped out and talked to us through the microphone. After that, we were then shifted to the hall where we played games. First we had to blindfold ourselves. According to the animals we were diffrentiated as, we were instructed to walk around the hall blinfolded and call out our animal call, so whenever you hear a call the same one as yours, you will join up that person. I was gorilla.So, I had to go "Wu ,wu,wu,wu,Wu" and walk aimlessly around the hall, pricking my ears for the slighest sound of "Wu."In fact, I did not walk, the hall was sooo cramped with people(the hall was small) doing their animal calls, so I was just shuffling my feet, hoping not to trample on anyone's bag or feet. I did neither, as I was being ULTRA careful by taking a centimetre step at a time. Lots of "Meow" and "Ribbit", "MmMmm" and "Roar!"were heard.
Eventually, I found my gorilla friends and joined up with them, and that, was our orientation group.Most of them were Year Ones and there was a Crystle in the Year 2s. Unlike Crystal, this Crystle is tanned.(Heehee, Crystal, your twin!!!)
We had introduction, which I loathed as I was all too shy to say anything.But I got over it fine, so, ok. We had scanvager hunt too, where we hunt around the whole school for our leads. Of course, being the shy one, I lagged behind, talking to a girl who is as shy as me, both of us not knowing what to hunt for, so we purposely broke off from the group and walked up and down ourselves, looking for clues on the way. Lunch time was real bad. It took more than an hour, like enternity!!!I did not know, I just ate my share and waited.Waited and waited and waited. I had no one to talk too except the girl but we had not much to say, so the rest of the time was spent staring in space when I could have flown from Singapore to Australia with that time ( Joking!!!I need 3 more hours!!!But I don't mind!!!) I was sooo frustrated. Why do things take sooo long? The others were talking and those theatres in the gorillas were all doing the monkey call they made up, which sounded like pop. We upgraded ourselves, from gorillas to King Kongs, and all those theatres were filled with delight. They were astonishing and funny, really outgoing and all, so having theatres makes up a noisy, happy group!We played magic carpets too where the Theatre head, Mr John Lofthouse thought us to imagine. The main point was to find the instructions before the carpets crashed. We tugged and pulled, Jumped and hopped, but nothing.In the end, guess where it was!!!
Yeah!!!Bingo!!! On someone's shoe!!!!!!!!!!
There was waterbomb too. We had to get a ballon filled with water between one and one's partner and try not to drop it as if it drops and burst, one will get wet. My ballon did not drop, YEAH!!!Many more...but I forgot, so, thats all for the first day of school!
3 Jan 08
Went to East Coast Park.The beach really is small. Not like Australia's Surfer's paradise, 2KMs long.The sand also, Australia, white, soft sand, here, yellow orche hard sand. And the space is small. We, in our orientation groups, had to build sandcastles. It really was wonderful when we stepped back to see what we had accomplised. Dig, dig, dig. Shovel, shovel, shovel. Scrape, scrape,scrape. Thank god there was no sun, so we were all safetly in the shade. The beach was sooo small that the tide was only a metre from us. I had a lot of fun, running
on the sands with my friend.It reminded me of Australia. Those strong big winds that blew at our face, the white soft sand laid out in front of you, as dry as straw, no sand will be stuck on your feet unlike East Coast's Park's beach.One thing that East Coast Park is good, it is small so if anyone had drowning accidents, there is a bigger chance of being saved. No wonder Surfer's Paradise was the top beach in Australia. I will never forget that experience. If you ever go to East Coast, be sure to look out for our castles, alright? We left it there as it was a pity to destroy them when they looked sooo mighty and castle-liked, all of our creations. Provided that no one has the heart to destroy our castles, you might just get the chance to see them.
