first day of Hai Experiential Week over and i’m feeling happier than i’ve ever felt when joining in for social activities! oh well. i really had a lot of fun, even though my group didn’t win much points. poor huimin’s waterbottle cracked and everything in her bag got wet, including her just-bought pad of foolscap paper.
1/ Dog and Bone–i got called out twice! (i was number 15) and c. jun wei blocked me twice! johan kept running as far as he could because we’re supposed to run one whole round around the opponents before you can grab the ‘bone’. i was actually dreading this game but i laughing at the end of it. the opponents won.
2/ Broken Telephone Line–’She sold slimy seashells at the silvery sandy seashore at half past six.’ and ‘Who washed Washington’s white woollen underwear when Washington’s washerwoman went west?’ haha! my group got the seashell message wrong but the underwear message correct.
3/ Hai Web–this wasn’t too bad. i went through the small hole at the bottom left and we were cheering everyone on. i remember i played this game when i was in P5 that time. that wasn’t too enjoyable because we couldn’t touch the strings at all!
BREAK–met zhihao, xueling and shiming at the canteen. i don’t know why but i was feeling so detached from the rest of them. there was something that i just couldn’t place that was wrong. xueling got the flu from me and now she’s the half deaf auntie.
4/ Human Chain–the other group won. we were so silly during this game! asyrafi actually took all the worksheets and notes out of his file and we were trying to make the chain longer by spreading all the papers out. and jasper got his iPod and made the chain longer with the wires attached to the earpieces! it was all good fun.
5/ Human Entanglement–everyone was struggling like mad idiots as we tried to grasp each other’s hands. my right went to jie ying and my left to lin hui! then we were all squashed together and it was so hot and i could feel the sweaty arms all extended over everyone’s heads and headed for different people. we were fast–1 minute and 33 seconds if i’m not wrong! i can’t imagine what would happen if someone had body odour. oh dear.
6/ Bench game–opponents won again. this game was damn amusing but it was really hot. jackie was kidding that he was afraid of heights and let out a small high-pitched scream. we could have tied with the other group if we came in earlier by a fraction of a second.
7/ Blind Maze–we had to wait since some 3E3 people were still going through the activity. anyway. i was one of the blindfolded people (can you imagine how unhygienic the blindfolds are?) and i was totally scared and was waving my arms in front of me when i let go of lin hui cos i was scared that i would fall. i went to help the other group even though they are supposed to be opposing us–but they’re still in my class. jasper went to sabotage them by making them spin one round before they began making their way through the maze and i was helping audrey and a few others cross the bench to the chair (‘there’s a cone in front of you…stop! okay, wait. you have to stretch your legs very far because there’s a gap’). all of them screamed and exclaimed, ‘where!?’ so funny!
8/ Tug of War–this was rather torturous. my group lost even though shannon was on our side. i guess we were too dependent on him. 3-0. then we agreed on the 3 bonus rounds that followed. the very first round, nicole t. and lin hui fell. oh dear. i fell on the second round. i saw sydney slide as he tried to pull the rope back. jieying fell almost every round. poor girl. our palms were all red/ pink and splotchy-looking when we dropped the rope and hints of blisters appeared. shannon and asyrafi competed as everyone started trailing off, but we all turned behind to watch the scene. i think shannon won.
BREAK 2–met clar, gene and ch. jun wei at the canteen and we were talking about random stuff. we got to the subjects of pickpocketing in Europe, which place in the whole wide world did we want to visit and a bit on Haw Par Villa. jun wei was remarking that i was very quiet in sec 1 and 2 and that i’ve become noisier since sec 3. have i? i hope not. then we went up to class and mrs chan gave 3E2 homework! some people were silently groaning. then the Geography students had a half-hour lesson with Ms Ku. she was kind enough to keep us only for half an hour instead of one hour because she knew some of our friends were waiting for us and she knew that it would be a waste of time if she kept us for an hour and we didn’t absorb anything at all.
alright, got to go. and i don’t know if i’ve forgiven you.
happy birthday emily! in advance. you’ve always been a nice junior (: good luck for streaming and work hard on your English and flute!
