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Monday, June 2

The dreaded day has finally passed. Well, almost. Woke up this morning with a heavy heart. While having breakfast I checked my horoscope.


It says: If things seem to be going badly for you, just keep pushing. Perseverance is the key to success right now. Your optimism might be your most important trait, so work it until things work out.



And I felt even worse. Being a believer of such stuffs despite my constant scoffings at its untrueness, it was obviously telling me that the day was going to start out bad. I didnt even think I had a good night's sleep due to uncalled for worries.



I reached NJ bus stop at around 7.20, much earlier than I had expected and hoped for. Started to think of what the hell am I going to do when I get to rgps. With the intention of passing as much time as possible so as not to reach the place so early, I strolled leisurely, even pausing to look at NJ sign boards along the path. I was close to inspecting the leaves of the tree of grass on the floor too! But somehow I managed to refrain myself possibly due to a hidden optimism in me that maybe there are other early birds too who can talk to me and keep me entertained. (There you go-the optimism part of my horoscope.)



Despite all these measures and "precautions", I still reached rgps super early. The surprising thing was, I may have supposedly slowed down considerably but I reached the place in a mere 10 minutes! So at 7.40, I wandered around the place wondering what to do to pass time. Eventually I ended up in my classroom. There was nobody. I plonked my bag down on the nearest chair, turned on the lights and started talking to myself.



So here is an example of the conversation I had with myself. Lets assume that I have 2 voices-Abe 1 and Abe 2.


In class:
Abe 1: Oh...so nobody's here yet.
Abe 2: Yeah its so early, what do you expect?
Abe 1: Okay since Im early, why don't I do something useful?
Abe 2: Like what? I feel so lazy... and tired


I decided to just give out whatever files there are and put them on the tables so that we wouldnt have to give them out later. Save the teacher and myself trouble, I thought.



At 8:
Abe 1: hey im bored to tears. Where is my teacher and the other camp leader??
Abe 2: Well who knows? they might appear really soon...
Abe1: Okay so what shall I do...
Abe 2: Hmmm lets do some exploring then!
Abe 1: Where?
Abe 2: How bout the classroom?
Abe 1: Oh, right. How fun.



About 15 minutes later, nobody had arrived at the class yet and Abe 1 was already close to turning into a stone already. The optimistic Abe 2 had inspected the whole class and would probably know where the tiniest ants were staying in their ant holes by now.



Abe 1: Okay its 8.30? The classrooms around are all empty... Am I at the correct place?
Abe 2: Eh... I think I remember someone saying we have to go down to wait for the kids!
Abe 1: Rightttt...you tell me only now.
Abe 2: Hey! We're the same person okay!
Abe 1: Gah.



Went down to the canteen and finally saw my teacher. Still totally clueless about who my partner is though. Eventually, after some "Oh YA pei ya soh" game, it was decided that this uni guy (I cant remember his name) was my partner. Oh, it was the same guy who helped me last friday. Looks like his help didnt go to waste after all.




Miss Chua(my teacher) was really good with the kids. The day went almost exactly like the first day of dvc at Tao nan. I hardly spoke to my partner much but I built rapport with some of the kids though. They were so adorable! I think I could pretty much remember at least 20 of them. The remaining 6...well I guess there are still 4 more days to get to know them.



The experiments today made me feel like a total noob. When I confessed to my partner that I don't think I would know the answers if I hadnt read the book, he gave me a "diao" look and started to explain the logic behind it to me. I guess all these are ABC to him, considering he is a uni student and is studying some aero engineering or something. I think by the end of the day he must be thinking Im some kind of clueless idiot who is worse off then those kids. Ah wells!



I was so tired at the end of the day that I could hardly even drag myself to the bus stop.



All in all, I think it eventually turned out to be a quite alright day after all. Although for once, I feel young when surrounded by uni camp leaders.



Alright, gotta stop since my sister is egging me to finish up so that she can use the comp.



OFF.

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6:42 PM