Monday, February 11, 2008
Confusion was what that engulfed me on my very first day of secondary education. I was fetched to school by my father and I got off unwillingly. I felt afraid and shy. I assembled in the school hall with other new secondary ones. Every secondary was as quiet as a mouse, whereas the other levels were all chatting away loudly and catching up with one another. I had friends from my primary school with me in this school; however they were in a different class. How unlucky. All chatter suddenly stopped as a male figure appeared from behind the stage. He was tall, wearing sports wear and had a muscular build. I was thinking to myself, who is this man? Why does everyone turn silent upon seeing him? Questions filled my mind as I waited in awe. Then, he spoke, “Welcome back to Kent Ridge Secondary School!” his voice was firm and thunderous. Inferring from the way he dressed and his power to make a thousand students silent, I presumed he was the discipline master. His name was Mr. Koh Suan Lam, after a few words from the then school Principal Miss Chamb Cherk Ing. After an hour long orientation talk in the hall it was finally time to get back to class. Upon entering the classroom, everyone went silent and we carried on doing administrative matters with my form teacher, Madam Jean Tan. Recess came, and I was so excited. Perhaps, this was the time of the first day of school in which I will always remember. I wanted to see what food the canteen was selling, whether it would be better than my primary school. I queued up at the noodle store to buy a bowl of noodles like I always did at my primary school. However, something embarrassing occurred, after ordering a bowl of noodles and when it was time to pay for it, I was so used to paying seventy cents in my primary school that i gave the stallholder seventy cents. I immediately took out my wallet and paid the remainder, everyone in the queue was looking at me; so much for buying just a pathetic bowl of noodles.
It finally came to the end of the day; the day was definitely an interesting one for me. but there was something I could brag about, I had made three friends!Labels: it ends tonight...