Day two and I can't wait for training to end

I really want to get down to teaching proper instead of being cooped up in an air-conditioned room the entire day listening to lectures :( I know the theory is important and stuff but I just dislike draining lectures..especially when I'm still not used to sleeping early AND waking up early!! Haha. Well but today's session was much more interesting than yesterday's. Made lots of new friends and found out who are the other two girls teaching in Swiss Cottage too! They seem pretty nice :) Our instructor/lecturer/teacher is a really experienced lady who obviously had many interesting stories to tell us, which was very lovely of her. I still feel very awkward being the one kid from NUSH there. I don't regret signing up alone and attending this whole thing alone - I am going to start all over again in university alone too anyway right? Guess this is just an early start. But sometimes it just...feels weird being the only person who did not go through a normal secondary and JC life so everything regarding those six years of education that everyone seems to be talking about sound alien to me. I can't even add anything on or give my own opinion because well, I just don't understand what they are talking about! And though it is some what 'good training' to venture out on my own like this, to start in an entirely new place alone, it really is very lonely to not have any friends around, and everyone else seems to have someone to hold on to, even if they were to be simply schoolmates who have never talked to each other before. I guess that is sort of the 'disadvantage' of being in a school like this because we really are cooped up in our own world all the time, interacting with the same people for six years and having practically nothing in common with everyone out there.  However, I would gladly say that I am very happy to have come to this school because we managed to save ourselves from graying hair, mugging for the 'O' and 'A' levels! It seems normal for everyone else to not know half the people in their level but to us, we are, not necessarily close, but at least we do recognize and are most probably be able to name everyone in our level, perhaps even be close people from other levels! Which is very heart-warming actually :)

Sometimes I don't get the concept behind learning. I totally understood the lessons taught today but was there a need to make us memorize words like those? How many people actually are able to make sense of big words put together to make visions, missions and all simply sound fancy? If I were to get the idea of what those sentences mean and process them in my head, is there a need to still memorize those words for show? Memorizing does help us learn but what is the point if all your bring back at the end of the day are words that mean nothing to you? Well,  just some food for thought. 

Went back to NUSH today! :) Felt so happy crossing the bridge that I have always found very annoying to reach the school back gate! Amazing! Our school card still works! Wonder when will it expire. Feels really great meeting all our teachers again, a pity Ms Sie isn't in school anymore :( Dr Dewey got a tan! Which speaks a lot because, well, you know, he was always the Snow White in our school :P Poor Mrs Soong is running out of supplies of students she can joke with! Those brief few moments interacting with our teachers made me feel like coming back to school :(.....but na, HEEHEE I like slacking at home, for now! This year's orientation finale was...an anticlimax compared to the previous few with campfires :( A campfire completely changes the entire atmosphere! Good effort for the planning and carrying out of the performances but meh our school never fails to bring lots of goosebumps to my skin! And how ironic that some people who never fail to miss events like orientation turned up for the one that happened right after graduation!

I think I feel the most comfortable being with my group of friends from high school, and I really wonder if I would be able to find friends or people whom I would able to feel this 'me' around next time.. I really hold myself back around people I am not familiar with. I mean, well yeah I still smile and chat with them but...that's just not me you know?

Okay! That is all for now. Really. Need. To . Get. SLEEP. And I've to start working on my essay for PSC this weekend :( May it all turn out well!!!!! Excited!!!!!