ICE.COLD.COFFEE

It's the last day of orientation. Like tradition, the year 1s will go to East Coast to play games and stuff. I wasn't planning to join them today since we had lessons but our principal knew that a lot of us were planning to crash the orientation anyway, so she made it "legal" for us to join them from 10.30am onwards.

In other words, no more lessons after 10.30am. Yay!

I ended lessons at 9.15am then me, Li Yue, Sheryl, Jasmine and Amelia went to East Coast to roller blade. There were quite a few year 2s cycling as well. I think we were the only group blading.

Amelia was a really good roller blader. Joanne and Li Yue also. Jasmine was quite good, but Sheryl didn't really know how to blade. My standard was somewhere in between Jasmine and Sheryl.

We had lots of fun! I love roller blading, just that I can't do it "with style". Haha. Amelia looked so cool wearing those roller blades!

I looked like I was going to fall down any time. Usually I'll wear the knee and wrist guards but I didn't wear the knee guards today. Seriously, I think it makes your legs look shorter and more clumsy. Hahaha...

I wore the wrist guards though. Was scared of falling down after all.

I could only move forward, but I had a serious problem stopping. I can't brake at all!

Halfway, Li Yue fell down while she was learning how to brake by turning. It was quite a serious fall because she fell backwards and used her hands to break her fall. But her left hand felt very painful after she hit the ground. We were all so worried that she might have broken her arm!

But luckily, nothing happened. Li Yue and I went to have a drink at the coffee shop and take a rest at the same time. The others roller bladed back to school. I really wonder how they managed to get across the overhead bridge on roller blades. They said they walked up sideways. Must have been really tiring!

But the thing is, after we rested at the coffeeshop and started blading again, it soon started raining! It started with a small drizzle but got heavier quite quickly.

We went to a shelter while the others were still in school so they had to wait for the rain to get smaller before they came back. Our money and receipt was all with Jasmine so we couldn't return the blades.

In the end, the rain didn't really get smaller so Amelia borrowed a bicycle from a teacher and cycled all the way back (in the heavy rain) to return the blades.

After returning, she cycled back to school while I walked barefooted back. My feet were wet so I didn't want to dirty my shoes. Li Yue went back to the hostel.

I never knew the floor was so rough! My feet hurt after walking all the way back like that. And of course, I was quite drenched.

It's sad that orientation had to end because of the rain. We would have had such a good time if there weren't any rain.

We wanted to wash up at the toliet but there were too many people queuing up to shower so we wanted to go to another toilet and just use the sink to wash up.

But when we went to the toilet, the auntie was complaining because there were people washing up there previously and they made the entire toliet really sandy and dirty. So of course we couldn't wash up in front of her.

In the end, we filled our bottles with water from the water cooler and washed our feet outside the toilet. We just poured the water on the floor since everywhere was already wet because of the rain.

We managed to wash our feet and wear our shoes to go home. Luckily Jasmine brought umbrella so I could share with her. Everytime when I bring my umbrella, I never get to use it. But whenever i don't bring, it always rains! Haiz...

This orientation really makes me miss our orientation last year! I miss being a year 1!