School so far has been largely uneventful (which of course is a good thing) apart from some arrows shot in the general direction of the four attachees (the term "teaching scholar" carries with it a lot of positive implications which at least i don't feel i can live up to so i prefer the label "attachee", if such a word exists (and of course not as in attaché case) (and after all, as they say, "nothing without labour" =p so work is expected lah). Of course there's nothing that i can complain about [cos from the group discussions at FOC have decided that my life can do without (excessive) complaining], suffice to say that it's been a rather interesting and quite enjoyable experience so far - as i've said before the staff and my fellow attachees are generally very nice people to work with. While i haven't even started handling a class yet (note i said "handling a class" cos won't actually have to teach in the strictest sense of the word), am in any case thankfully getting into the whole swim of things...
Had a good break from school today since a good portion of thursday cg and friends gathered at Orchard (which btw looks different every single time i step into it - which is hardly a surprise considering that nowsaday i step into it all of once every two months or even less, compared to the so-called heyday back when i was still studying merely up the road at barker, and would go down to Orchard at least once a week) for a gathering facilitated by Debs' imminent departure to what one prof in my department (and he's from that very country so he's entitled to call it that) the white trash nation of Asia... Anyway, almost everyone seemed so busy - loads of working folk there especially...
Bumped into Chong Yak, my bmt mate who's now in smucf exco whom i have not seen for the longest time at the mrt station, and then into Lily, one of my primary six classmates whom i just met at the gathering that our class had only a few days ago. That was rather cool...
I must say that the attendance was impressive - around twenty or so of us from past and present alike (future a bit the hard lah...) - haven't seen some people in ages and it was good to catch up, even if time was a bit rushed. Good of Kumuthan to organise such an event, think he put in quite a bit of effort into it =) The community of believers whom i've grown accustomed to over here is definitely something that i'll miss when i'm away...
Which reminds me - quite a few people have asked me whether i am looking forward to going on exchange. Well the matter-of-fact answer that i give is a flat NO, or at least NOT YET, as i think it'll only sink in once the rest of the annoying bureaucracy and what not is cleared- and there still is some way to go for that. And after that there is the pre-term travel to plan, which i also am not looking too forward to. Only then once all this is settled, then i shall look forward to going on exchange...
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