I believe I owe y’all some updates.
We had the leadership workshop on Tuesday and Wednesday.
For Tuesday we had lots of lectures which were somewhat useful because of guidelines and stuff (otherwise pretty damn boring) and laser tag which was rather underwhelming because no one could tell who was shooting who and if you shot anyone.
For Wednesday we had a “positive psychology” workshop which was basically common sense and the adventure camp. I was supposed to go with the sports CCAs (HnF is a sports CCA? Go figure) for an AdventureRacez which was mainly doing cool sporty things from Pasir Ris (!!!) to Bedok, about 5km. I got assigned to group 11 which had 5 girls and me. WHY.
So being the natural chicken I was I chickened out and told Ms Teo that my feet were busted up from windsurfing (they actually were, there’s this huge gaping cut on my right foot which isn’t healing). Instead of letting me go home to slack as I had hoped, she sent me to the non-sports team where I hung out with Wang Ce’s group which were a fantastically pleasant bunch (probably because all the jocks were gone and they had people I knew like Rui Hao, Menquan and Jingyi). We had really really nice bonding activities such as building a catapult out of poles and rope (learnt 2 new knots, lots of teamwork), rock climbing and this obstacle course (we all had a chat with the instructor) It was fun but I was really tired to the bone after that. I missed a chance to man up. 🙁
So in the natural order of things, like when heated water boils and scared men scream like girls, tired people go for LAN parties the next day. Obviously. Made some new friends, smashed a glass (very sorry 🙁 ) and rode around in tricycles on Dead Rising 2 while people watching hollered in laughter. It was nice. I didn’t really man up though 🙁
Then today.
Last night I dreamt I kissed someone and felt bad about it because she was taken. I woke up and felt bad about it too. SO DESPO. But I thought it was a cute dream. Blah.
Naturally, people who have fun for a whole day follow it up immediately by rushing off the next day to complete work they should’ve. I went to school early in hopes of meeting the stall owner early, but she wasn’t there. So I called her which I could’ve done at 4pm. Then I went home.
Then I went to Strahan’s house later at 7:10 (I’m a busy man, left home at 5:20) which was pretty damn late, but I was the second to arrive.
The food was great, the atmosphere was good, but everyone was in small groups and doing their own things which wasn’t good for bonding.
But I liked it when we were walking back. Everyone was joking and laughing and there was this big happy mood that surrounded us like the glow of a lantern.
It kind of hit me that I don’t just like being around people, I like interacting with them and building relationships. Listening to Yirui’s interesting theories, Strahan’s death threats, Lixian’s teasing and Bryan’s fear of thrillers really adds to the atmosphere of the whole place. You know, adding character and stuff, things movies and food can’t bring by themselves. I’m liking my class a whole lot more now. 😀
I’m in my cousins’ house right now, lounging on her bed while everyone’s asleep (she’s sleeping with the twins because of me).
Full, but happy 🙂
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