My First Day of School in Secondary 1 2005

I remembered feeling very excited and nervous at the same time. I met my friend, Li Li, who had been in the same primary school I was in and who had also been posted to the same secondary school, at the pre-arranged bus-stop so that we could go to school together and have each other's company.

At last the bus came, after what seemed like forever. It was packed! It was so packed that everyone seemed to be sandwiched like sardines in a can. My friend and i were standing at the door step. As the driver closed the doors, her foot got stuck and her shoe dropped off!! We were trying hard to stifle our giggles while trying our best to retrieve the shoe as it had dropped into the corner. The rest of the journey to school felt really uncomfortable and embarrassing.

After getting off the bus, we walked to school and stood outside the hall with other friends of ours in primary school that we met. We all jabbered on how exciting secondary school would be.

After talking to them for a couple of minutes, I realised all of them had a collar pin on. So I asked them about it. It turned out that it was part of our uniform and I had no idea about it! Thankfully, one of them had an extra one and so i borrowed it from her. I was so thankful for having friends around in the same school!

Soon we were ushered into the hall to sit in our classes. I sat besid emy friend and I remembered sitting behind two of my new classmates, Karina and Rabiatul. Karina was around my height or slightly taller with an average build, whereas Rabiatul was small built.

We attended assembly and afterwards, the teachers, such as Mr Koh, the HOD for CCA/PE briefed us on the school's motto and balues. We sat in the hall for quite sometime ultil my body ached. I do not think I have ever sat for so long.

Next, we proceeded to our classrooms and we had to sit in index order. Our form teacher then talked to us and helped to familiarise us with the things going on in the school. We also did some paperwork.

Later on in the day we also played ice breaker games led by the student leaders or better known as the student councillors of the school. We played games like whacko and dog-and-bone.

We kept playing icebreakers during the rest of the day and before we left, the councillors demonstrated the "mass dance" they were going to teach us to dance.

After everything ended, my friend and I went home together. And that jus about sums up my first day as a secondary one student.