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Right. So I'll begin with the Peer Leader Camp.
Day 1
The first day of PLC, I practically missed the whole day. Lol. As I had my French exchange programme on the same day so I told my seniors that I could not make it for like half the day, Anyways, when I reached school, found that there was no one from PLC and only some people from the hostel loitering about. I was getting really worried. So I started furiously dialling the numbers of the friends I knew that were form PLC. No answer unfortunately. Thanks to Weijie and Joshua, they helped me to get some numbers. Called my class moniter up. He said they were scattered all over Singapore as they were playing The Amazing Race game. Bleahs, and I thought they had gone to have their dinner. Oh well. So I left my bag in school, hopped on a bus to Parkway and had my lunch there. When I came back, so were the rest. Yups… was welcomed into my squad. The group members were really nice. I was in the group SANG (Read: Simply Atrocious N Gorgeous). Haha. The group had done their group presentations in the morning and came out with that name. Creative huh? So, first up, had lectures that were boring, about being a Peer Leader, how to handle peers, etc etc. Then we had games of human chess! All the groups had to take part. It was really fun --- and messy. Every time a chess piece could attack the opponent, the person can throw a handful of flour at the other. I managed to kill off one senior. I threw a handful of flour right smack in his face. Revenge of the juniors! Wahahaha. Well, had my retribution next, as my group was playing against the seniors, the senior was already winning and my group leader sent me a step forward and I came face to face with another chess piece. *sigh* So, there I was, the final chess piece to be attacked for the night. The senior said his parting words, “You’re the last one, so use more flour…” Then BAM! Had flour all over my face, t-shirt, inside my nostrils, in my lovely hair that I just washed like 3 hours ago… Went to toilet to clear up the mess… freakin’ sticky, cant get all of it off… Then I went on a sneezing fit, the flour had clogged up my nostrils so I was sneezing like a mad person… So I went to shower after that and it was LIGHTS OUT!
Day 2
Next day, had the most exciting thing to start the day of with – Physical Training. Did the 5 BX, then had to run around the school in THREES with the others and cheer at the same time. Hiong man… Furthermore the seniors were like “Cheer louder, LOUDER!” Breathless as we were, we held on…Had to do 10 Green Bottles as well... o.O
Next thing we had on was water bomb fights! Damn fun! Can throw at people, haix, I got eliminated playing the game against another group. Then after that, the seniors made us fill buckets with water using only the thing on our body… It was chaos! Many of us started taking of our t-shirts then running to the toilet to wet them then squeeze the water into the buckets… For me, I did that too, and I filled my mouth with water and spat it into the bucket, which many others did too… haha. The most outrageous thing someone did was to pee in the bucket… gross. Then the seniors sent us to the sand pit in our school to search for a bar of soap and a candle. The bar of soap that is found must be completely dissolved in the “Water” that we had in our buckets. Then, put a candle on the surface of the water, it is those rounded candles… Yeah, so all of us got down and dirty in the sand, digging like animals… LOL. My team did not complete the task, the freakin’ candle was too difficult to find.
Next activity: Building towers using the materials that the seniors were selling at their “Shop” each group had paper money to use lah. The items they sold were at inflated prices… Well, my group won for the tallest tower! Woohoo~
Night time we had a BBQ which was really fun. I was practically gorging myself. Haha. So fun.. wolfed down alot of chicken wings and the chicken chop was great! Then at 10 p.m. we had a movie screening... Horror movie... I like watching Horror movies but i don't like the images that flash through my mind after the movie... Well, we watched Into The Mirror. Korean horror. Then after that had night walk around the school. The seniors kept telling us horror stories to scare the shit outta us. I was. Then during the night walk they will purposely make weird noises and grab us. I was grabbed on the leg by one of the seniors when I was in the toilet. Damn scary. I almost screamed. But i stifled my voice. Dang. My heart can't take these scare tactics... Will get heart attack de... Lol. Well, after everyone had finished the night walk it was about 3am+ liao. Then it was lights out yet again.
PT yet again. Have to do 5 BX. Had breakfast then after that we lectures from external people and some SJI peer leaders LOL. Our seniors showed us a tribute video they did for PLC. They also showed us this hilarious spoof on Harry Potter video. Haha. Then they ask students to give their views on PLC. I told them that I felt it was dumb at first. No hard feelings guys, but I enjoyed it and have changed my perception! (: Then, there was the handing out of red tees which is like so cool, then we had a photograph session, sang the VS anthemn and that was it! The end of PLC.
Well, the motto of PLC is You Never Stand Alone. Abide by that, we will.
French school facts: Most of the students there use fountain pens for their writing and most of them write cursive words which is really hard to distinguish. For me at least. ;)
Hail Mary.
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Well, the Tuesday I had Science lesson with the class and I couldn't understand much as usual. They were kinda learning Geography in their Science lessons and I was like "huh?" Anwyays, they were doing chemistry about the formation of limestone and luckily I could understand the names used! Lol! Carbon dioxide in French is "dioxyde de carbon", hydrochloric acid in French is "acide de chlorohydrique", calcium carbonate is "carbonate de calcium" I think... and experiment in French is "experience!" Haha. I found it really amusing that it was still possible to recognize chemistry terms in French. Then, I had English lesson and then the teacher was like asking me and the other gal who was in the exchange program to introduce ourselves and then the lessons started! It was really draggy i guess. The teacher was polishing up their vocab. Like using other words to substitute "laugh", "small" etc etc. So I just sat there and stoned. Then he gave the class back their compositions they did before and it was titled "The one incident that changed my life" If only we had this type of compositions and lessons in school now. I realized that the compositions they were doing were mostly self- expressive. Then, the teacher dropped a bomb on me and the gal, he said the class would interview the two of us on the next lesson about our lives. :O Then, the day came two days later and the boys were like firing questions at me lor. For the boys, they had to write "Nicolas and I. Parallel lives." They were damn shocked when I told them my school had public caning. Lol, felt like a celebrity being interviewed. Then one boy asked for my autograph, and he said it looked cool when i signed it! ^^ They were so comical lah! Woots!
Wednesday - I had Art lesson in the morning. Their Art lesson is held in English so this teacher with weird hair and two ponytails was just blabbing away in her Irish accented English. Then she gave us visitors some Art paper to draw on lah. I sat there and stared at my paper as i could not think of what to draw. So that woman came over and told me to "draw something from your head or I'll give you something to draw"and then she said "because if you don't draw, they(the French pupils) won't draw too" I'm like WTF! What dumb theory is that! B*tch! So to shut that woman up I just drew some still-life art and smudged my pencil lead all over it to do some horrible shading. Take that you horrid Art teacher!
I had History-Geog later on which is basically combined humanities lah. The thigns they learn for Geog is really different and I could not understand anything. Even my buddy found it tough. Poor guy. I saw him struggling but i could not help.
In the French school, they have maths FOUR times a week. Lol. Crazy right?! But the maths they learn is sooo easy! They're only learning how to multiply and divide fractions! Hah! Finally i could do some work! So when they had a study group later on I was practically helping my buddy do his maths. I was glad I was of some help! (: They questioned me and asked if I found it easy and I of course replied yes lor, then they asked when I learned it and i replied flatly "primary school". They were like "WHOA!" and asked what i learned now. I said we're basically learning a lot of algebra at our age now and they did not know what algebra is... hmm?
Friday - Had P.E. again. I love the school's P.E. lessons! Its sooo slack! We had gym class yet again and this time we were doing jump exercises. Its great fun! We have a spring board and 2 poles and a string attached across to determine the height we have to jump over and the cushions for us to land on. So practically for the whole lessons I just jump up and down. LOL! And hardly broke out in a sweat. Special mention to the P.E. teacher who is a New Zealander woman who is so nice and she didn't scold and spoke in a kindly voice! Rock on! Much unlike school, where they torture us every week by running 2.4 all the time. My gosh, in French School they just run 5 times around the hall. Which is ideally - air conditioned! No sweat! =p
Music lesson. It was awkward at first as the class was singing French songs and the teacher keeps prompting them to open their mouths to sing. He kept yakking "chantez! chantez!" which is "sing" in French lah. Then the teacher changed music to Maroon 5's She Will be Loved! OMG! It was one of my favourite songs and me and the other 3 gals in the exchange program were singing along...so fun! The next song which they sang was Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together". Yep, great song. Sadly I did not know the lyrcis to it so I just listened to the class sing. Hehe. The teacher also said something us exchange program students about being "tourists"? OR something close to that. And the class broke out in laughter and we were so blur. One French gal asked me if i understood what he said and of course i said no... Then again, she didn't tell me what he said. -__- Honestly, I wish music lessons in school was like that. Just singing songs for the whole lessons. French school fact : In music lesson, the instrument they are learning to play now is the RECORDER!
In French School, the students have to take 3 languages. Mainly French, English, and a choice between Latin, Spanish, German or Chinese. Wanted to sit in for Latin and Spanish. But went to attend the German and Chinese ones in the end. Just to see how its like.
At the French School, we had lunch at the school cafeteria which is really nice as it is air conditioned and the food is like buffet style lor. The food is ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS. Had pasta, beef, chicken --- all cooked in French style. On the last day I had pumpkin soup and quiche! The quiche was H-E-A-V-E-N-L-Y! I could eat it everyday! The cheese was fantastic! Yumm~ Sad thing is, the food doesn't come cheap. On averge my lunches costs about $4 a day. Not bad i guess. For the French students though, their food is already pre-paid so they just need to take a queue card and order what they want!
To sum it up, the French School Experience, as I would call it, is wonderful and I won't hesitate to go there again to have lessons. Minus the Chinese lessons of course. Heh.
Hail Mary.
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I was like, ok... I won't be fazed by it. But felt damn nervous, dunno why lol. So the timetable for the day was English History, Mathematics, P.E., Break, Geog + Science and Design and Technology. I was like omg lah. In French school also got such a toot subject like DnT. So sian, felt really bored as i couldn't get what they were saying. They spoke like motormouths. Haha. Well, luckily most of the people could speak English so I was relieved about it.
Felt so bored until I made friends with 2 gals from other schools in the exchange program lah. Then we just talked and talked and talked till school ended. Quite fun lah. Furthermore all the rooms air-conditioned (:
Praying for the best tomorrow !
Hail Mary.
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Secondary 3 is somewhat intimidating. Already, the pressure has set in. Firstly, the choosing of the subject combinations. I really couldn't make up my mind between History or Geography. Since the dateline was nearing I had no choice but to make my decision. Hope i can strive for the best next year. Secondly, the pressure of my upcoming leadership camps. Worrying about whether I may be a good leader or not. Then again, I had this cheer session in school today, was cheering like a bitch for close to two hours. Screamed myself hoarse. Kudos to the 2I people who worked hard screaming as well lol! We pulled it off great. Sometimes we were really pushed so hard when we couldn't carry out the cheer well. (Guess we started off shaky) Seniors were like so pissed? >.<
Having upcoming projects, exchange program. Wow. I really involved myself in so many things. I will be like half-dead. Lolx. I'm so bored nowadays I'm catching up on my reading. Really wanna get around with some friends and watch a movie or something. As long as I can get out of this house. Its so suffocating.
Arghx. Hope the coming weeks will be fun... WOOHOO! -___-
Pity on me!
Hail Mary.