Back in action!

I am finally back to blogging.

Well I shall not update about what happened from the last time I blogged till when school ended. haha. Lets move on to what happened in the holidays instead.

I guess I must thank my two good friends, Peiying and Grace. We met up on a Sunday one week before school ended and they were talking about holiday plans when I had nothing at all in mind. They talked about stuff like working, doing what they liked, catching up on school work and basically just taking the time off for a long rest before we have to return to school again next year. At that time I confessed to being "aimless" as compared to them. I am someone who doesn't think much for myself. More often than not I just watch the day go by and lead a rather mundane life.

It wasn't till a week later that I suddenly felt the urge to try working. I don't have any working experience, other than giving out flyers for celine laoshi 2 years ago. Probably inspired by my two friends, it dawned on me that it was time I tried something I didn't do before. So I decided to go on a job hunt. I actually went to ask Mr Bean at the mrt station you know, since they were hiring! Haha. But too bad they were looking for long term workers so yeah, they don't wanna employ students on holiday.

Later that night celine laoshi approached me with a job offer of being a facilitator for a performing arts camp she's conducting the next day at Bukit View Seconday School (BVSS). Usually I wouldn't have accepted the job offer, since I'm usually the quiet type in camps myself. How then can I be a facil? But then at that point of time I was interested in finding a job and giving myself a new experience and challenge, so I accepted the job, not sure of what was gonna happen at all.

When I reached the school with the other facils and laoshi herself, I was still very worried. The rest were all guys and much older. They had many experiences being facils before. I was SO worried, especially when we first broke up into groups for icebreakers. It took a while for me to 'warm up' myself but I must say I did my best. During tea break everyone could sense that I was worried I think. It certainly didn't help that my group was quiet! It only made things worse for a noob like me.

Luckily after lunch things started getting better. The groups then proceeded to start preparing for their items for the competition at night. From then on time seemed to pass rather quickly. The competition was great, I must say. The items put up by all the students were so entertaining and everyone put in a great amount of effort.

It was at that competition that I realised something distinctively different about rv and other schools. I'm sure it isn't just BVSS, but probably many other schools as well. Throughout the whole camp I observed the students of BVSS. Though they ain't representative of the whole school, I guess it's still pretty safe to assume that they're more vocal and stuff since they all belong to the performing arts groups. Anyway, back to what I was saying. I am not being biased here, but I have to say that rv students are alot more daring and vocal. When saying something in front of everyone else, rv students in general have not much of a problem. The BVSS students in turn are alot more shy and they don't seem to have much to say when asked to say anything or contribute ideas. I have to give it to rv students for being better at this. However, sad to say, it is true that rv students are only smart in the head. Though the BVSS students may not be that affluent (purely based on what I observed), they definitely are more daring and energetic as compared to us rvians. The way they scream and support each other during the competition, how they are so enthusiastic throughout the whole camp, how they dare to perform solo in front of everyone although they do not know each other well...this all goes to show how shy and "dead" rvians can be. We are dead as ever during events like camps and we most certainly will never reach the same energy level as those students in BVSS. It's kind of sad actually. RVians don't know how to have fun. It's hard to put into words what I want to express, you have to be there to observe for yourself the difference.

Anyway, the day ended with everyone feeling shagged. Overall, the camp was quite an experience for me. Quite a few learning points and a fun experience of course. I must say that I am really sorry to the people in my group because many of them seemed quite bored. Probably its due to my lack of experience and all that I wasn't able to bring up the energy level in my group and make them really excited and high during the camp. But at least they won overall champion = ). At the end of it all we gave out the prizes and took photos. Here's a group photo. (I have no choice but to post this one and only photo I have so far although my eyes are closed, tyvm.)



Haha..and so that marks the end of the camp, and my 1st job during the holidays. I'm seriously quite hyped up about working now. It's really quite an eye opener and a rare experience. Of course, it kills time (who's not bored staying at home all day long?) and brings me some extra pocket money as well. Going to sakae sushi tmr to enquire about the job with yuxuan since they're employing. Hopefully we get employed! =)