How time flies… the first 3 weeks of school are already a blur in my mind. And orientation seems like something that happened so long ago. I think that things have started coming so fast and furious that it’s been real tough trying to manage them all, but for some reason I’m coping. Coolio.
On about orientation! This orientation IMO totally rocked my own… I think that things really went smoothly since everyone knew what they had to do and everything was like rehearsed and set up properly. Ah what to say about my OG. Haha they’re a really nice bunch, all super duper likeable. I had a lot of PAE people so I was kinda worried at first that the RG and RI people wouldn’t mix with them but phew luckily my fears were unfounded. Obviously there’re cliques, but I’m really proud that they took the initiative to mix around with each other.
And after orientation it seems like the whole world was upside down. I felt so upset taking down the structures for war games that we'd painstakingly put together using poles and twine, and stashing away all the logistics for good. Past 2 weeks i've been trying desperately to fit back into class and lessons and shooting and catch up on school work. No easy task. I had to borrow notes from classmates and see tutors for clarification all the time, and the past 2 weeks I’ve been sleeping on average 4 hours a day. So everyday when I turned up at the OG table in the canteen I’d look like some zombie. And I’ve been having trouble staying awake in lectures, esp. if its math. But hmm somehow I still manage to survive. =)
It’s been just one angsty day after another. Last tues, we were having a regular GP lesson, then Mrs Toh interrupted her own lesson 20 mins before break and we were like “OMG, we get to go off early?” Then she dropped this huge bombshell on us when she told us she wasn’t going to teach us anymore. Sigh… and to tell you the truth, I don’t much like our new GP tutor. She’s nice enough, but her style isn’t concrete at all and she always goes on about this philosophical stuff that sounds good when you hear it, but is totally worthless when I’m trying to write an essay. Sigh… there goes one more reason for why I enjoy going to school. RESPECT for Mrs Toh. You know you respect a teacher when you don’t call him/her by their full name, or when you make an extra effort not to be late for their lesson, or when you actually voluntarily raise up your hand when they ask a question. She’d always come for every lesson fully prepared, and we’d always have plenty of laughs in between all the heavy stuff. She was sort of a guiding light for me after my horrendous experience in RI getting humiliated and dissed by Eng teachers (stuck up a$$es), and without her, I probably wouldn’t have done as well as I did for promos. Hope to cya around in school Mrs Toh.
Man… I’m just glad I’ve caught up with school work. It's like the only ray of light in a tunnel we've been traveling in for a year. A fresh start: let’s make the best of 2007!
Chris LOLed@
