A New School, A New Beginning

Hello all from 1i3 :D

Okay, this is the first time I'm going to blog after roughly 8 months. :(
I've seen other people's blog in regards to Hwa Chong during the orientation. However, I would like to talk about my experience in school when lessons start, which is on week 2.

On Monday of week 2, our class were introduced to our form teacher Mr Low Swee Xiang, who also happens to be our Lower-Secondary Science teacher. After a brief introduction, we had to do some icebreakers (Okay, they were pretty boring.) until recess, where we had an hour of break. A consortium assembly came up right after recess and the day ended without any lessons.

On the subsequent days, we got to know our other subjects teachers for the rest of the year. Most of them seemed quite friendly and approachable, while some looked strict. I remember my music teacher particularly, because he was quite fun and well, DIFFERENT from other teachers :D

Although our school is approximately 29 hectors large, it was not neccesarily a good thing. On the first few days, I was lost around the school, unable to find places such as the canteen, toilets, and the direction back to the classes. I was really furious then, thinking I had entered a wrong school. My thinking back then was, "So what if its a big school."

This perspective of the school changed after staying in here for 2 weeks. I started to recognize my way around the school, and the big land area allowed for running around the schools without being too afraid about colliding into people. Even though I might still be muddle-headed to where some places like the Lecture Theaters and Computer Labs are, I am sure I would slowly blend into the environment and know my way around the school.

The fact that Hwa Chong is a boys school, the need to change from a mixed-school environment to an all-boys environment would of course be hard. For the first few days of lessons, the feeling was just.. weird. But as time goes by, that 'weird' feeling of mine started going away. Even though we are away from girls, but those girls from our primary schools would forever be our friends :D

The change from Primary school to Secondary school is really hard. Example: I used to be scoring high 80s / 90s for Math papers in primary school. But after taking a mathematics quiz recently, I was shocked when I receive my results. I only gt 2/8 = Fail. Understanding that Secondary school is much different from Primary school, and not to mention being in the iSpark, I would try my best in improving grades for all the subjects to be able to cope with my work.

Okay, I guess thats all. Took 10 minutes to type all that .. Cya guys :D