Monday, January 4, 2010

First Day

First of all lemme just clear a few things out of the way.
Ehem.

Happy New Year!!!!!
(I know this is probably a bit overdue but hey, better late than never, right?)

Just to point it out, I had an awesome 2009.
Who didn't? You only get one of those in a lifetime.
And now, we've stepped into 2010.
It's a new decade.
The perfect time to make more awesome memories.

Okay, good. Now that that's out of the way, let's start on what happened today.
I'm gonna tell this according to time.

5.45AM
I woke up and got ready for school.

6.30AM
Waited for my bus. Feared that I somehow missed it. Started wondering if I should call down my mum and ask her to send me to school as soon as possible.

6.45AM
The bus came. =)

7.20AM
Reached school. Went up huge staircase next to the AIA building. Short of breath. (The lack of exercise finally got to me) Reached the school canteen. Met friends, said hi, hugged.
Reading session. Shirley the scary form 6 prefect yelled at us to start reading. We took out out storybooks. No one read anything. ;)

7.30AM
Everyone files into the hall, noisily. We get scolded for not respecting the school rules. Sing NegaraKu, Wilayah song and the BM version of our school song. Recite the ikrar and ikrar pelajar. Sit down quietly.
Listen to a continuous stream of different teachers welcoming us back to the school and talk about homework, co-curricular activities and lockers.
An important announcement: Intervensi for form 3s and 5s start near the end of January. The first exam for form 4s start around that time too. =.="

8.15AM (I think)
All the students except the form 4s leave the hall and enter their respective classes. The form 4s sit down quietly and chat in low voices. (Or at least try to)
Mr. Hoo takes the mic and explains how students placed in their classes cannot switch unless they switch streams. (Meaning: if you're in pure science and get placed in 4B, you can't switch to 4U because they're the same stream. But you can switch to 4A because it's a different stream -- commerce)
Reads out the names of girls who are to be in 4B. I was one of them. =)
I don't know what happened next because the girls in 4B had to go to their own class.

4B
Class teacher: Pn. Nor Aini.
Monitor: Joanne Ang
Assistant monitor: Phea Ly Jane
Secretary: Fazlina Yahya
Treasurer: Wong Mei Jen

10.15AM
Recess time! Caught up with other girls form other classes. Asked about who's the monitor, what class they're in, who's teaching them what and so on.
At the canteen, the monkeys were being totally annoying. One was so close to us, we didn't notice, and when we did Dian tried to run away but fell instead. =.=
Now it seems that recess is too short. There's not much time left to talk. =(

10.40AM
Recess ends. Everyone goes into the hall. Exits after a few announcements.

10.50AM
We walk back to class. The upside of being in 4B is that we get to leave first! But that doesn't take off the stress we're gonna be put in.
The form 3s and 5s stayed in the hall to get their SPBT books. Because of that the teachers were too bust to even make it to class. And that meant most of the form 4s roaming around from class to class, looking for their former classmates and vent about how they hate being in separate classes.
In my case, girls from 4B went to 4U and vice versa until 4U's class teacher decided to come in for a bit. So 4B was on our own for the rest of the morning and afternoon.
In that time, I just sat and talked with Alini, Aida, Jannah and Jane. We talked about what to take for our 10th subject. I'm thinking of Geography, but Jane's got me interested in Literature in English. But that one's hard to score in. And there aren't any text books or reference books to come in handy.
Then Simone came round with a camera. Bak kata Alini, "Pandai awak, Simone, bawak camera on the day prefects tak buat spot check."
Which is true, I guess. =)
So we took some pictures and laughed our heads off.

12.50PM
The first bell rings. Reading session for afternoon girls. Morning girls stay put.

1.00PM
The second bell rings. Afternoon girls file into the hall. Morning girls still do nothing.

1.05PM
Third bell rings. Afternoon girls greet teachers and sing all the songs. Morning girls mistake it for the last bell and pack up.

1.10PM
Final bell rings. Afternoon girls most probably sit and listen to their teachers talking. Morning girls go home.

I didn't go home straight away, though. I wanted to go buy my books, but I decided I'll buy them tomorrow.
Erniza, Adibah and Nabihah were buying, so I waited for them instead of taking the bus home.
In the meantime, I went to look for Pn. Ti to collect my locker key and pay the RM50 deposit.
Met with a couple of my juniors and chatted a bit in front of the bookshop.

1.45PM
Once everyone was ready, we walked down the hill, went through the lorong St. John and walked the opposite direction towards Dang Wangi LRT station. Technically we did a huge U-turn. We could've gone down the huge staircase, but we thought it was closed so decided to take the long route instead.

I had to walk home. My first of the year! =D

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