When I was first posted to YJC, I didn't know what I was gonna face, and what to expect, and honestly, everything was a little scary and overwhelming to me at first, but it's been a pretty good ride thus far, and I am really grateful. I was really quiet during the first week in school which comprised of orientation with my orientation group, and orientation with my class. I guess I wasn't really adapting very well that first week, and it was kinda rough for me cos just as I was opening up to my OG, we were being separated into our classes, so it's kinda like orientation restarted for me all over again. Speaking of orientation week with my classmates now, most of them would say that their first impression of me is that I am super quiet and that I was on my phone most of the time. But slowly after that first week in school, I started to adapt to the new environment, and I started to talk to the people in my class, and I slowly started opening up to them. After O's, I realised that I became a more quiet person than I was before and I didn't really like being in crowds, and sometimes, I would even feel suffocated being in the presence of a large group of people. And I wasn't like that before, till I think the stress of O's got to me. But I'm really glad that my class has managed to make me open up once again, and I'm becoming way less quiet than when they first got to know me.
CTG 103:
This class is a really special class I suppose. From that very first day I stepped into class, I realised that everyone in my class was already opening up to each other, and trying to get to know each other. While I was being really quiet in the first 2 days, I was observing everyone in my class and I realised that my class is a class full of extroverts. I didn't know if I was gonna get along well with them or if I was even gonna like that class cos introverts and a big group of extroverts don't really mix well together, but something about this class just made me feel kinda welcomed I guess? And so I started learning to open up to them a little and it's safe to say that today, they no longer see me as the quiet girl they first saw me as. I was thinking about my class the other day, and it hit me how we've only known each other for about a month and 2 weeks cos the amount of comfort we feel as a class makes it seem like we've already known each other for a year. Of all the classes I've been in from when I started schooling, this is the first class I've been in that doesn't have a clique. Unless we're being separated into our various classes due to varying subject combinations, we're always as a class, and almost every single person can get along with each other (almost because there are about 2 people out of 22 people in our class that we can't really interact with - one of the 2 people really pisses me off and I feel so uncomfortable just by his presence ugh but that's another story for another day), and when we go for recesses and stuff, we'll always book like 2 tables so that we can eat and talk together. This class is also crazily funny, and we do a hella lot of crazy stuff together like birthday bashes (and that's just one example cos there's like too many and I can't recall all of them right now). One of my classmates say that everyday with the class is like an abs workout, and I really agree with her cos we can never go by one day as a class without laughing, ALOT.
Before the JC1s went for the JC1 adventure camp, many of the teachers and our seniors would tell us that's really the time where our class would bond and stuff, but our class was already really bonded before the camp, and I would like to think that the camp has only strengthened our bond, and made us become even closer to one another. At the camp, I spoke to people in my class I didn't really have the chance to speak to before that, and I became closer to the people I was close but not as close to previously. The camp made me realise how blessed and lucky I am cos almost every single person in my class are really nice and understanding, and we're always trying to be there for each other. The amount of energy my class has is also crazily overwhelming cos by the 3rd day aka last day of the camp, most of the other classes were exhausted and all my class needed was an hour's worth of rest before our energy was somehow replenished and we became crazy and high again. My class is really loud and noisy and we definitely disturbed the other class sharing the bus with us, but I think they were also super amazed by how much energy we have? Cos from the very first day of the camp till the last day of the camp, our energy didn't diminish at all and we only became more energetic over the course of the camp. We were having singing sessions at the back of the bus, doing random cheers, and my class definitely went crazy with the song choices cos we were singing Epop to kids songs like Dora, Spongebob, Little Einstein etc, and the other class on the bus was totally judging us but none of us actually cared. On the day of the campfire which was also the 2nd night, my class went totally high and we were jumping up and down, kinda almost like we're clubbing, when they blasted music. Honestly, that was the only highlight of the campfire, cos the rest of the activities in the campfire was kinda boring, and it honestly kinda sucked a little. But this camp really made me feel super grateful for this class and I really like this class alot cos it's so fun and they've made being posted to YJC so worth it, and because of them, I really feel like I'm having the time of my life right now. Also, as my class is the only class that has people taking 4H2s, our timetable sucks ass but this class in itself just makes up for the horrible time table, and I feel that having a class like that in JC is so important cos they bring in that much more fun and happiness into the really taxing and exhausting JC cirriculum.
I am blessed, and I am really lucky, and I honestly feel like I can't ask for a better class in YJC. This is only the start of our 2 year journey together as a class, and I'm really looking forward to the next 2 years with you guys. It's gonna be a ride full of ups and downs, but I believe that you guys will make this ride one of the most worth-while rides in my life, ever. ❤❤❤
(Uploaded the pics we took at camp cos our phones weren't taken away and so we took ALOT of selfies and photos, but yayyy presenting to you the hella cool, hella cute, hella sweg class CTG 103!!! Hehehe)
