Friday, 5 February 2010
@ 11:43:00 pm
Hi!
We had an official meeting on Wednesday, 3 January, from 2.45pm - 5.45pm. Dove was to do flag on that day. It was also was the day when we would get to see our new Secondary 1 recruits for the 1st time! :D They were so cute!
We fell in at the field at 2.50pm as the flagbearer was still tying the flag to the flag pole. The Secondary 1s stood on the track, observing in silence with Mrs. Tan with them. In the horseshoe position, Kai Li gave the command for the colour party to fall out and for them to take over. However, things began to go very bad at this point in time..
Sara, the flagbearer, had forgotten to give commands to her colour party when marching to the flag pole and instead of marching behind Kai Li to get to the flag pole, she marched in front of Kai Li so she had to go around Kai Li to get to the flag pole. This was mistake #1. Then, when she tried to tug at the string to break the flag, she could not. So she kept tugging and then, the worst thing ever happened! The string broke off from the flag and the flag fell to the field!:( At this, the whole coy went 'ohh'. It was most embarrassing for Dove patrol and myself! I knew then, that we were screwed.
After that, we were given 3 minutes to change into our PE attire but Kai Li told Dove to stay back. While everyone was busy changing, Mrs. Tan came over and asked Sara for an explanation. In turn, Natalie also asked me why this happened. After all that explaining and feeling scared, we were finally allowed to change. While changing, I'm sure we were all wondering what sort of punishment the PLs were going to give us.
Later, we joined the coy again and this time, we went to an empty classroom on Level 1. We held the introductory powerpoint presentation there. The slides were animated in such a way that it was obvious that Kai Li did it. :) Before it began, Cheryl invited the Secondary 1s to introduce themselves, saying their name and something interesting about themselves. Through this, I learnt that this year's batch was rather studious as quite a handful of them said 'I like reading', 'I like chinese' and 'I like math'! Wow! :D I was still feeling down and sorry at the beginning of the slideshow but later felt better when all PSes and PLs were introduced. We also had to explain to the Secondary 1s what our different roles were, such as mine, a historian. After talking so much, I sat down feeling much lighter as I could finally speak and let out my frustrations. There wasn't a hint of anger in my voice though. I just found refuge when I started talking. :) In between some slides, Mrs. Tan would ask the juniors questions to see if they understood what was going on and well, they did, thankfully! :)
At the end of the slideshow, we fell in at the outdoor stage and the PLs told the juniors that the seniors were going to demonstrate what footdrill was. We did abit of it and after awhile, stopped because it was games time! :D We started off by sitting in a circle and introducing ourselves, stating only our names, class and patrol. Then, we played '007'. From this, we could tell that Cheryl was an expert at this game as she was very very quick in shouting her enemy's name! That meant she was very alert, or very high. Haha. In the end, the winner was Nicole from F'peck! Congrats! :D
We then played double wacko for awhile and it was most fun but I pitied the juniors as they were still not familiar with our names so they had difficulty looking for the right person to smack. The seniors did not help by pointing in random directions when calling the person's name. This made the juniors more confused. Later, we swopped positions, front people to the back and vice-versa. This continued till the PLs changed to a new game.
Next, we played animal concentration. In a circle, the PLs explained the rules of the game but some people did not know how to play so those who knew demonstrated for those who did not. Following that, we split into 2 circles and the game commenced. It was very fun at 1st, what with all the funny actions that everyone came up with but it soon got quite boring as some people lost and had to sit down and they got bored so the PLs started a new game and this time, we were going to play the all too familiar..
'Squirrel and Trees' game! Everyone found a group of 3 and formed a tree and squirrel. The PLs then called out 'hunter', 'earthquake' and 'fire' at random. Each time a specific was called, it sent everyone screaming while they were finding their places. Our noise pollution was disturbing the Choir girls who were in the PAR so a representative came out to ask if we could lower our volume. Thus, we tried to play the game in hush screams but it was a little difficult so some of us 'shooshed' the others whenever they made a loud noise.
Soon, game time was over and we fell in. The PLs told us that we were to teach the juniors how to fall in and fall out. With that, we fell out and divided into our patrols. Each patrol called in a few Secondary 1s and began teaching them the basics. Each patrol had no more than 3 juniors. Within a specific time, the PLs fell us in and gave us 4 minutes to change back into our guides uniform as it was approaching 5.30pm. So, we ran like mad, grabbed our uniforms and changed.
After that, we fell in in a horseshoe formation and announcements were made. Before falling out, we sang taps and later thanked Mrs Tan, YA (who was present throughout the meeting) and the PLs.
Wow. This is a long post. Anyway, I would like to apologise to the guiders, YA, PLs, the coy and the juniors for the horrible accident at the start of the meeting. Mark my words that I will never let this happen again, ever! I truly am sorry. Thank you!
With love and peace, Melissa! :)
SiYing; Chomel; Katrina; Meenatchi; Safila; Krystal; Christine; Siti; Rukaiya; Kalyani
Qarissa (YA)(not in picture); Sherwynn; Nicole (not in picture); Caitlin; Charmaine; Vanessa; Amanda; Claudia; Michelle