Sunday, January 20, 2013

SH orientation

This post is one week late haha, but anyway, so heres the rough outline of my SH orientation Unitas:

Day One:
So, I was just feeling pretty grumpy on Day 1 because I have not changed my class yet and the prospect of having to interact with them made me feel miserable, I gotta be honest. I cannot remember much from Day 1 actually; all that I remember was that Day 1 was SUPER AWKWARD. I thought that maybe Xiyu would talk to me, but she didn't, which made me feel worse hahah. Attended lectures and mainly stayed with my ex-class.

Day Two;
Day 2 felt much more worse than Day 1 for me, mainly because there were so many free periods and I didn't know where to go since I couldn't exactly hang out with my 24 class. So, I just hung out with some of my ex-classmates (meaning desperately trying to find them every time I am free).
We did have some house ceremony where we were 'officially' welcomed into our various houses. Mine was Homa then. We did have this ice-breaking session where we literally had to break ice by melting a frozen shirt. I laughed a lot watching the 24 guys trying to melt/break the shirt by hitting it on the floor. LOL. It worked... to a little extent. HAHAH, it was mainly funny seeing them so anxious since the losing class had to do a forfeit which, I JUST remembered, they DID NOT DO. LOL. The house ceremony was kinda fun too, since we learnt Homa cheers which were pretty catchy :)

Day Three:
Things got better on Day 3, MUCH BETTER in fact. Since the whole day was filled with activities, it was pretty much a good chance to bond with our classes. It did feel a bit awkward at first, but I would say it got better. We had this class bonding time at first where we were at the auditorium. My class went to this 'secret place' (which I can't say haha). Anyway, the place is FREAKING cool, which made it a nice and special memory to have hahah. We took a picture! We were supposed to play bonding games there but the place proved too small/cram. So, we went out to the audi again lol.
Sprayed our hair and coloured our faces orange.
We then went to the hall for this mass dancing session which was actually pretty fun I guess. It was nice to see everyone actually trying to dance :D This doesnt usually happen because I remembered that during a mass dance session in y2, everyone was so shy! But this time, most people danced seriously :DD
After that was class lunch :) That was actually the first time where I actually PROPERLY got to talk to some guys, which was a nice opportunity :) I am more of the kind of person whom you have to sit properly in front of me for me to speak to you. I like to talk while sitting/walking side by side, but not while doing random stuff cuz it just seems uncomfortable to me haha.
After that was the games at Katong park! It rained at first, but it stopped so we managed to go out. yay! We went there and played at only one station LOL when it started to rain again, hahaha. Most of us got pretty wet cuz the rain was pretty heavy (I shared an umbrella with jingying so I wasn't that wet hee). While waiting for the rain to stop, we did this intro game where everyone had to sit opposite someone in one row. We'll talk for a while, then one person in one of the two rows would have to shift up, so you will get to talk to the next person. I talked to some of the guys, which was nice cuz like I said, I am more of the 'sit down and talk' type, so I got to know some of them slightly better.
After the rain stopped, we resumed our games :)) We actually won all of them LOL. And after that game, it was easier to talk to Xi Yu YAY hhahahha.
We were actually in a pretty high Homa mood (at least for me - amazing what one day can do). I think it was cuz our OGL taught us the homa cheers again so we knew how to cheer = cheer more = high homa mood.
In my opinion, Day 3 was very fun and I actually went home in a happy mood :)

Day Four:
I was actually looking forward to Day 4 with 24 since there was DOTA, meaning that the guys would probably wreck the other houses hahaha. But... when I went to school, someone told me that she heard I transferred classes. I was like huh??? I took out my phone to check my email using sch wifi and found out that I had like 3 smses congratulating me on my class change, and I was like WADDDD. I didn't even know about it, HOW DID YOU. LOL. So I checked and the email was sent last night, and I didnt know LOL. Can impt email not be sent at night, pls.
My new class was 21, the class which is very hyper (at least from what I saw). I went into my new class and kinda said goodbye to my old class (awkwarddd).
My new house was Drakon, which was kind of sad for me because I actually started liking Homa!!!! (aka started being loyal already). hahah. But anyway, I missed Homa but still wanted Drakon to win, since it's my house after all.
We had mass dance session, where I partnered Ying Xuan.
After that was Siege of the Empire. It was really fun! I stole 2 gold balls LOL, and killed a person HAHAHHAAH. Sounds damn violent but it wasn't really. hahaha. Anyway, we won for our game, but I heard we lost for the other (we had 2 ongoing games, divided by levels).
Then it was lunch. I played some games with my new class and got to know them better. They (specifically Joshua) were very funny hahah.
After that was our A-level Chinese results - such a spoiler! I got B3 LOL despite all the studying HAIZ.
Then, it was DOTA. DOTA was pretty fun, but VERY VIOLENT. I didn't actually participate in much action, which I regretted. But at that point of time, it seemed really scary to go over to the other side, seeing as what we were doing to those who were attacking us LOL. It was kinda like TACKLE WHOEVER COMES OVER. Scary ahhahaha. Anyway, my aim for next year is to go into the mud pool. LOL. Think I should at least try it once, hahahha.
Drakon got attacked a lot of times. Like around 6?? Thats a lot.

Day Five:
Last day of orientation. I forced myself to learn Drakon cheers on the way to school :D 21 wanted to meet up first to play captain's ball. It was pretty fun! :D Got a nasty scratch though. We then ate lunch, and went back to playing ball. But we played against some Homa people though, so it was like 21/Drakon vs Homa hahaha. Great game.
Then, we took class photos.
We then learnt our mass dance first, then played some mass games.
After that was dinner. We were in this DAMN HIGH MOOD. We kept cheering and cheering. The feeling was actually pretty awesome and cool! At the canteen, you could see this whole bunch of y5 drakon people cheering damn loud. We kept cheering until we got to our designated seating area LOL. I didn't actually know Drakon cheers were so addictive til then. There were some cheers where you could just get high and go wild! It was a good thing I learnt the cheers, because I was screaming my lungs out then! XD After we ate, some of my classmates starting teasing me, saying I was a betrayer of Homa and told me to go back LOL. Then they started chanting the homa go home cheer at me (telling me to go home), and THIS kinda sparked off the whole cheering war LOL. Cuz everyone started cheering homa go home along with them HAHAHAHA, for different reasons from them. The cheering war was easily the highlight of Day 5. Because you see people standing on chairs and tables, facing each other and cheering like crazy! FRIGGIN COOL. I heard someone video-ed it down, I WANNA WATCH AHAHAHHAHH.
After that, we continued our high spirits and went to the hall because it was raining  = no campfire D:
We had the mass dance. Best house went to Homa, best house spirit went to Drakon!! We came in 2nd.
Then, the teachers announced that the campfire would continue, because the rain stopped. HURRAY.
We had performances at the track/field area. Towards the end, all of us started singing together and linking shoulders. Really memorable! :))

Overall, Unitas was a good memory! It didn't exactly started out as fantastic, but it ended well!

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