Monday, April 09, 2007

GOOD FRIDAY(6APRIL2007)
I celebrated this day not with my family but with my team-mates from volleyball, even my coach and some seniors, other students and teacher from St Hilda’s Secondary School, my current school. It was a memorable and enjoyable day!

This was how it went about. It was a Friday! My team-mates said that we were to meet there at 8.30 but for some other reason there were some people who were informed that we were supposed to be at the 23 stand in Tampines interchange, but some were not, I was one of them. On that day I was there at 8.20 and all I saw was one team-mate of mine and my senior. To my horror, my team-mate, Hannah, said that the others had left already leaving us to find our own way there. The vice- captain and captain were the ones who wanted to leave us behind so the rest followed there orders. Fortunately, our seniors were there and they knew the route to T-junction the venue, or else we would have lost our way. Two very kind and nice souls of my team stopped at the SAFRA bus-stop to wait for us because they knew that we did not know the route so they accompanied us.

The rest reached there much earlier than us. Hannah and my other team-mates that were on the same bus as us were quite angry at the fact that we did not go as a team to the venue. When we reached there we went to the second level to enjoy ourselves. Soon after, we were brought down to be grouped into our groups, each group had at least 8 people but we were exceptional, we had 9 people. Each group also had 3 labourers, they are the ones who would help us and give us the clues. One of my group’s labourers was our coach!

After grouping we sat in our groups and were given a set of instructions. The game was like amazing race but it was not really a race. It works like that: you will be given clues and bonus clues and we are also given a map to which MRT station we were supposed to go. Our first stop was Chinatown. Some of us did not bring our card so they had to buy the pass. On the train we opened our clues and started to thing of ideas. We will have to take as unique as possible pictures of either us or other people according to the clue.

We managed to cover all the clues and bonuses. We were beat after the whole thing. We had lunch at Vivo City, one of our missions, and we were also wet at Vivo City, because we had to play with water. Though this adventure was tiring but it was fun and enjoyable at the same time. There were attractive prizes to be won too! On the journey we sang many Christian songs and told some jokes we also ran around to many places.

Soon it was time that was long-awaited, it was results time, also prize-giving time! Before that we had to sort out our pictures and hand in to the judges. After awhile the judges had made their decision. We also had refreshments. We were all given up hope of getting any prizes after knowing that 2nd, 3rd, 4th place were not us, so we started to pray, but we all knew that getting the prize was not as important as having fun! We had a lot of fun taking pictures, it was wild and very thick-skinned. Everywhere we went everyone would be looking at us. All of a sudden, they said that the first prize went to team H which happens to be our team, for a moment we hugged each other and was filled with happiness. Tears of joy filled our hearts. Our coach was happy for us, he gave us a hi-five! We rushed forward to collect our mp3! After that we took pictures of everyone that were from the volleyball team, even the seniors. Some of them were really upset at the fact that they did not get any prize.

Soon after we went to the second floor and looked at our pictures and played games with all the secondary one volleyballers, both guys and girls. We made a lot of noise, it was chaotic, our coach played with us too!

It was an enjoyable day!this is a draft of my highlight of the week i lazy to type all over again so i copy and paste! Draft only! ((:

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