I think I should start blogging something about Orientation. Well, today was day 2 of our epic-high plus epic-mad plus epic-crazy orientation. Let me talk about day 1 first.
Well, school was supposed to start at 7.25am, and we had to assemble by 7.15am. I woke up at 5.30am and started packing my stuff, bathed and got ready for school. I left at 6.20am to meet An Hua at Boon Lay interchange. We took bus 198 from BL - and this was the WORST moment and decision made in the day. 198 got stuck along the road of Hua Yi secondary in Jurong West, and at around 7am, we were still at Hua Yi! School was supposed to start at 7.15am and it's at Buona Vista.
We couldn't make it on time. So we got down the bus, took a cab and rode it there. The cab was also stuck initially along the same road (the road was bloody packed). Finally, when we got to AYE at around 7.10am, we heaved a sigh of relief. The cab fare amounted to $14 including peak hour surcharge (there goes my pocket money) and luckily we split the cost.
Though we weren't the last ones, we were relatively late. (We reached at around 7.27am). First day of school and this had to happen. Anyway, we had an introduction to the school via various speakers - the Principal, Vice Principal, Level head and the acting Discipline Mistress. Following that was the orientation introduction.
I was posted to Voda (a clan in ACJC) out of the four clans available. My OG group was Nam. At first, we weren't very enthusiastic, but it became better after rounds and rounds of ice breaking and cheering.
There were many many many many cheers learnt and several games played during the first day. We had an entire day of orientation (7.30am-6pm). Got to know a few friends there from my OG - with people from ACSi, Gan Eng Seng, Methodist Girls, Crescent girls, SJI, Jurong West Sec, Swiss Cottage sec, Commonwealth Sec, TKGS and GMSS.
What a mix!
I started day 2 off by meeting Karen at the MRT station (YES, I LEARNT MY LESSON)
Day 2 was not as exciting as day 1 as we had introductory lectures on GP, KI, Math, Economics and Chemistry in the morning. Each introductory lecture lasted for an hour. After some deliberation, I decided to take the following subjects - GP, PW, CL, H1 Math, H2 Chemistry, H2 Physics H2 Economics.
I decided not to take four H2 subjects as I didn't want to study like mad again (actually I was quite a slacker in Secondary school but who cares). I chose H2 Economics over H2 math because I was more interested in Econs than Math. Moreover, Business Admin/Econs in NUS/NTU/SMU requires only H1 Math knowledge.
In the afternoon we had the same old cheering lessons, learning how to cheer clan cheers as well as AC cheers. I screamed till I am running a sore throat now. We also learned the moves for the mass dance, well not all. At least the dance moves are pretty solid but easy to learn.
Hopefully orientation doesn't get too boring with the repetitive cheers, dance and games. How I wish school and lessons (tutorials+lectures) start soon!
P/S: I am starting to like ACJC a lot! THE BEST IS YET TO BE!
