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Yesterday morning, I assembled in the lecture theatre with Sheryl & the rest of the Outward Bound India (OBI) group for a short briefing. The teachers-in-charge emphasised a lot on having chosen us because of our "unique leadership qualities". But I still wasn't convinced about myself. In fact, I felt that OBI came to me when I least deserved it. I was trying to articulate how I felt to Sheryl but all she did was give me a whack on the shoulder. But honestly, I really felt like a fish out of water. OBI's probably my first ever opportunity when it comes to a shot at leadership. I was quite intimidated at how the teachers expected so much out of us, too. And their plans to turn Outward Bound Global into a pinnacle leadership programme for the participating students from next year onwards made me feel a little queasy. Until now, I still don't believe that I can be the shepherd who guides the flock. But this has to, and will, change.
Still can't help but feel disappointed at how things turned out, though. I really wanted all three of us to go for the programme together. Not to mention, my excitement for the programme was kind of dampened. But I believe things will change for the better, and that the other members would enrich the experience anyway.
But the sad thing is, reality did not match up to my expectations. It's a given, I know, but for once I just hope things would go my way.
Went down to ITE College East for water training after school with the swimmers and water polo girls. The sets weren't exactly very tough, but I was already very tired to begin with so I felt exhausted after every lap. Thankfully, I didn't give up halfway, especially when I was swimming the freestyle stroke. I still haven't mastered it, so I tend to spend a lot of energy trying to bring myself to the other end with that stroke.
Anyway, with the exception of GP (surprisingly!), all of today's lessons & tutorials were completely yawn-inducing. Worse still, I failed to prepare the homework for more than half of the tutorial classes. I fail at not having a life, hahaha.
During GP class, Ms Quek gave out the marked AQ assignments, and my mark was the second-highest in class, though it wasn't very fantastic. But I really didn't expect it, after having spent almost one whole week busy with the swimming nationals, consequently giving a whole lot of GP classes a miss. But I believe I didn't plan to hand in a slipshod piece when I was doing the assignment, let alone announce to everyone that I didn't put in any effort into the assignment. I would seriously punch myself in the face if I were to exhibit such an obnoxious and annoying attitude, hahaha.
Skipped Mother Tongue class for a compulsory talk regarding Outward Bound. Headed home shortly after, and coincidentally, I bumped into Michelle & Cally outside the bakery opposite TJ. Decided to wait for them while they were ordering waffles. Cally was hilarious in making her order - she told the baker, "Can you burn my waffle?". Of course she didn't want it literally burnt; she just wanted it crispy. But the way she put it made her sound like such a blonde, hahaha.
When they were done, we bumped into Sean, Joie, Marissa & Teck Wee. Again, at the bakery. Decided to walk to Bedok station together, but we stopped pretty frequently along the way, one time to get cheese fries (don't worry, I didn't and will never touch that), and another to get Q-Essential bubble milk tea. It was good to have company walking with me to the train station, though. Just two days ago, Amira, Michelle & Kai Yuan did the same. I should walk to the train station so long as it's not raining from now on. :)
So, I guess that's all that's worth remembering these past few days. Time to get started on my revision for GP.
Still can't help but feel disappointed at how things turned out, though. I really wanted all three of us to go for the programme together. Not to mention, my excitement for the programme was kind of dampened. But I believe things will change for the better, and that the other members would enrich the experience anyway.
But the sad thing is, reality did not match up to my expectations. It's a given, I know, but for once I just hope things would go my way.
Went down to ITE College East for water training after school with the swimmers and water polo girls. The sets weren't exactly very tough, but I was already very tired to begin with so I felt exhausted after every lap. Thankfully, I didn't give up halfway, especially when I was swimming the freestyle stroke. I still haven't mastered it, so I tend to spend a lot of energy trying to bring myself to the other end with that stroke.
Anyway, with the exception of GP (surprisingly!), all of today's lessons & tutorials were completely yawn-inducing. Worse still, I failed to prepare the homework for more than half of the tutorial classes. I fail at not having a life, hahaha.
During GP class, Ms Quek gave out the marked AQ assignments, and my mark was the second-highest in class, though it wasn't very fantastic. But I really didn't expect it, after having spent almost one whole week busy with the swimming nationals, consequently giving a whole lot of GP classes a miss. But I believe I didn't plan to hand in a slipshod piece when I was doing the assignment, let alone announce to everyone that I didn't put in any effort into the assignment. I would seriously punch myself in the face if I were to exhibit such an obnoxious and annoying attitude, hahaha.
Skipped Mother Tongue class for a compulsory talk regarding Outward Bound. Headed home shortly after, and coincidentally, I bumped into Michelle & Cally outside the bakery opposite TJ. Decided to wait for them while they were ordering waffles. Cally was hilarious in making her order - she told the baker, "Can you burn my waffle?". Of course she didn't want it literally burnt; she just wanted it crispy. But the way she put it made her sound like such a blonde, hahaha.
When they were done, we bumped into Sean, Joie, Marissa & Teck Wee. Again, at the bakery. Decided to walk to Bedok station together, but we stopped pretty frequently along the way, one time to get cheese fries (don't worry, I didn't and will never touch that), and another to get Q-Essential bubble milk tea. It was good to have company walking with me to the train station, though. Just two days ago, Amira, Michelle & Kai Yuan did the same. I should walk to the train station so long as it's not raining from now on. :)
So, I guess that's all that's worth remembering these past few days. Time to get started on my revision for GP.