day 1.

first day of school and i can only think of one word: tired.
i'm lying almost vertically on my bed to type this right now and my eyes are closing almost every minute.

i guess it's cause we're all not used to having school again so everyone just looked exhausted today. that plus the new classrooms, new teachers, new timetable, extra undone work, open house preparations, CCA commitments and the chem test scheduled this week, i would say i'm pretty much ready to just take another break -.-

a quick check of my schedule and i realise that i'll be coming home past 8.30 every night this week, just like today, until Friday comes. i really hope this lightens up after open house.

MJC OPEN HOUSE 2013!

okay, i'm not a huge fan of the poster. but regardless of that, here are the details for our open house!

so, first day of J2.

today, well today was a pretty funny day. Ms Lai addressed all of us in morning assembly and the first thing she said was: welcome back J2s, we're going to have a fantastic year ahead and i've missed you. but the biometric system says that about 500 of you are absent today. (that's 3/5 of our cohort?!) to which she then proceeded to call random names of students to check our attendance.

the new classrooms are seriously, er, futuristic? 

we're now writing on walls and sitting in circles on tables that have wheels on them. the wall doubles up as an interactive screen as well. i'm not really big on changes, so this whole "new classroom" thing is really weird for me...

somehow trying to orientate myself to school again is not really working out very well. by the time it was 7.30pm just now most of us felt like we had gone through a week of school, not just a day. how did my friends get past all this last year? or is this just something that i will get accustom to after a week? i honestly hope i get the hang of life like this.

workload is still rather manageable for the first day, but listening to the teachers talk about the months ahead, A-levels and how we already don't have much time left is really beginning to scare me. IT'S ONLY DAY ONE for goodness sake!! i'm just gonna take a deep breath, sleep and wake up earlier later to finish planning stuff for the week. 

day one of life as a J2.
it's turning out to be slightly more challenging than i thought it would start off, but maybe it's a blessing in disguise. maybe it's better that we get busy from day 1.

10 months minus 2 days to the start of A-levels.

10 months and about 3 over weeks that i have to survive. 

i can do this.