Exhale

Too tired after orientation yesterday to blog. It went on until 6pm...and I survived the entire day on a single sandwich and Lemon Barley!

Thanks to Gwen for giving me a wakeup call at 6.30am thus preventing me from oversleeping.

Gwen: *sounding alert* Hello!
Me: *makes an indistinct noise* Urrrrrh....hello?
Gwen: Did I wake you up?
Me: *rolling out of bed* Urrrrrhhh....I'm sleeeeeepy.......eh. What time are we going to school arh?

Started walking out of my house at 7.10. Then saw the huge crowd of J2s at the gate and felt intimidated so I started to walk back home thinking that I'd go later (like, after assembly). But then I caught sight of Gwen and her brother alighting from a cab so went over to join them.

Spent first half of the day on the usual admin stuff. The DM gave a talk too - her voice bears remarkable resemblance to Veronica Siah. Her speech was...interesting to say the least.

DM: *introducing the discipline department* These are the teachers you should approach -
Gwen: *whispering* These are the teachers you should avoid!
DM: - if you are in trouble or are... *pauses* troubled....
Gwen: Or if you are trouble!

The DM specifically touched on not leaving school during school hours which just quashes all my plans for running back home and back again to school if I forget my homework :( On the bright side, rules generally seem more lax than Crescents'.

Went to apply for subjects later in the HUB/Hub (?) Have a feeling I have to take Cmaths.

Me: *to a teacher* ...I received the humanes scholarship and was wondering whether I have to state it on this form?
Teacher: Yes you do....*glances at my subject combo* Oh wait...you're taking a/o maths? *frowns* Ahh...yes...I see the problem...you did not take Amaths at O levels?
Me: Eh...no?
Teacher: *fiendish smile* Right, then we'll just have to make sure you take amaths.
Me: What??
Teacher: *smiles and walks away*

Crap.

At least I have still have Gwen's amaths textbook.

Spent second half of the day on activities. It took about 2 over hours to teach us some stupid dance! And some of the moves looked suspiciously like the parapara. Argh. *bad memories* Think I'm going to hear that song in my dreams. Most definitely going to continue having leg cramps till Sunday. Yingshi and I went all the way to the back so our obvious lack of dancing ability wouldn't be so noticeable and drove Mark (who was trying to hide behind us) to the front .

"Massive Fun" (so claimed by the orientation booklet) commenced at 3.30. A series of games/activites around the track. Fun!! Though there was this one disgusting activity where everyone had to dunk their heads into a bucket of water and then wring out all the water into plastic bags...the water was yellow! Upon this discovery Farrah, Jermaine and I started screaming and running around placing our hands protectively over our heads. Think Sharon got her head forced in by Andrew who went "Oh that's not low enough!! *push*" and subsequently got a mouthful of salt water. Argh! Have learnt also that my hair cannot retain water for nuts.

Bombed another clan and ran away before they could retaliate and get their water bombs. Heehee.

Was too exhausted to go look for Anjali at RJ. We'll make it another day k?

posted by Jeanne @ 12:56 PM