First Day

Yup... the first day in this school. See, I passed the giftedness test, and now i gotta switch to another school. I shouldn't name this school or any of the teachers or schoolmates except a few best friends I guess, to be safe. How I miss my friends back in the old school! They were kids at heart; they never grow up. That's what's good about them I guess.... they never say words like "you're lame" or "I don't friend you". And the friends in this new school are the opposite. Except for my best friends here -- Kian Wei, Yu Gene, Alvin.

Ok, back to my first day in school. I had to wake up at 5 to catch the school bus. It wasn't really a coach type of bus -- it was a small van with no seatbelts and squezzy seats. It smelled of wood from the square stool in the corner. There were already some of my schoolmates in the bus. And along the way to school a few more boarded. They seemed like they had known each other for quite some time; they welcomed each other like buddies. And so they cracked some jokes until we reached school. I didn't know them, of course, but I can't help overhearing some of their jokes and laughing.

In school. The routine was very much different. And it was huge. There was an indoor basketball court (or IBC), a parade square, a soccer field and many rooms and corridors and chairs and tables and even open, empty spaces. I have decided this school was too huge for my liking. The previous school was small and tidy. It was the same old familiar thing that we saw daily that made it so. And so I got to know the school and got used to the life there.