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A Glimpse of Harrow and NIST MUN

October 20, 2004

Hooray! I finally have time to update my site! Sorry for not updating it for two months… Basically, school just started and am currently trying to catch up with all the things that my classmates learned last year. I won’t write much in this entry but I took my camera to school and took some pictures for a couple of days already, so they are… Note: There are quite a lot of pics so it might take a little while for them to load. Please be patient. WARNING: VERY LONG ENTRY SO IT MIGHT TAKE AWHILE FOR YOU TO FINISH READING IT!


Here’s the Art room – and that’s the infamous boater on the table.


A snap shot of George in Business Studies. Man, this camera is good at taking quick shots.


Here’s my Math class – How’s the teacher? Well, better than the “corpse”.


In Math class. (From left to right: Pat [At the very back], Syne, Tan, and Ben – not Big Ben.)


Raghav


Ben (again, not the Benja).


Nun (a.k.a. Pat) in Math class.


Here’s one of the computer labs (There are about four of them in the Secondary School building). No rotten Apples (as Mr. Mike B. said) and an annoying server that always crashes, but they use Windows XP – and the internet is really fast.


Another view of the com lab.


Here’s a view of my tutor room (Homeroom). It’s actually the Mandarin room, but we have our registration time here. And those are our lockers on the right hand side.


Julie.


Champ and Julie.


Me and Champ (Julie wanted to let me get in there… I look like I’m a little kid!)


Our Tutor – Mr. Francois. Yep, he’s French. That’s Gaf’s shadow on the left hand side.


Here’s a view of the walkway outside.


Here’s a view of the walkway. Those girls are wearing dresses because they’re in Primary, so they wear dresses.


Walking to the Dining Hall. (From left to right: Boom, George, and Nithi)


A quick snap shot of Golf – remember her? She used to go to RIS, too.


Here’s where you keep your bags when you go into eat. You’re not allowed to bring your bags inside.


The long and never-ending lunch lines that are usually guarded by prefects and the Head Boy & Girl (one of them actually remind me of Percy Weasley.).


Completely bored waiting in the lunch line, so took a pic of these four. (From left to right: Junko, Omm, Fa, and Gun)


The Dining Hall.


George with his evil look.


A very bad shot of Joe while he was talking – He didn’t even know I took the picture!


Nithi and Boom’s behind him. Those are Maek’s hands popping in.


Nithi again with a spoon in his mouth.


A last view of the Dining Hall.


Here’s the Administration building.


Just a view of the school.


In the walkway again.


Obviously, Secondary School Building.


Here’s the walkway leading to the Primary building.


The walkway that leads to the Science and Secondary Building.


If you walk further, you’ll reach the teachers’ home area and the Headmaster’s house.


Here’s the Science Building hallway.


A view from the second floor of the Science Building.


The loo… I mean the toilet. Very clean – a big contrast with RIS’s.


Another view from the second floor.


One of the Science Labs.


Another Science Lab.


Again, another view to the teachers’ homes and Headmaster’s house.


Walkway leading to the Library.


A wonderful Periodic Table to remind us about all the elements in the table. Dmitri Mendeleev would be proud.


The usual path that I take to go to the Secondary Building every morning.


The Library.


Again, the Library.


A view of the Clock Tower.


The Science Building – from another perspective.


The Clock Tower. It actually is very handy. You can see the time from far away and some of the notices are put there every morning.


Walkway leading to the Sports Hall.


The Clock Tower again.


Under the Clock Tower.


Part of the walkway leading to the Sports Hall.


There is a big list of the teachers and faculty members of the whole school. Here are the teachers of Secondary School – divided by Houses (Byron, Churchill, Keller, Nehru, Sonakul, and Suriyothai).


A map of the school in case you get lost


The parking lot.


A view of the Primary Building.


Sports Hall coming up.


The walkway leading to the Sports Hall.


Anything familiar? It’s montri!


Here’s their track – I think. Pretty nice though, not like the chalk-drawn tracks at RIS.


Just a view on the side of the Sports Hall.


The Sports Hall corridor – it’s much bigger than Godbout Hall – and the Phoenix Hall.


Not really sure what this is for. Heard it’s something for cricket or croquet?? One of them – If I’m wrong, correct me.


Part of the soccer field – it’s dug 6 feet below ground level. Is it to prevent any high kicks?


That’s part of the Tennis Court – four in all. And the building beside it on the right hand side is the Boarding House.


Inside the Sports Hall. Some people were practicing for the Inter-House Basketball Competition.


Sports Hall again.


Again, Sports Hall.


Maek trying to force Boom to take a picture.


Trin getting ready to shoot.


Trin jumping – will the ball get in? Going – Going – aw, blast… It bounced out. It’s ok, try again!


Here’s just a cut through to the other side of the Sports Hall. Can get very windy here sometimes – Kinda reminds me of Mrs. Rao’s Bernoulli Effect.


Walkway.


A bridge. Students are supposed to use them but we never do – only if teachers are there.


The Library again.


Going back to the Secondary Building.


The walkway again.


A complete picture of the Primary Building.


Just a little garden area inside the Secondary Building.

Right, that’s the end of the school tour. On October 3rd, Harrow participated in the practice MUN conference at NIST along with RIS, BPS, ISB, NIST, and PREM. I went there so here are some shots of the place – along with some RISians… By the way, you guys changed a lot – a lot of you are more quiet and not that hyper anymore. Maybe that’s what High School does to us. So, here are the pics…


MUN sign


Raghav M. and Raghav S..


Yup, those are Jenny T. and Raveen.


Part of the walkway. Their campus looks rather old. Except for the Sports Hall, you’ll see it soon.


Snap shot of Jenny.


Walkway to the Canteen and that’s Raveen popping into the picture.


LUNCH TIME! We’re waiting in line and there’s Arpita, Chandini, and Swati.


A very bad shot of Lee – sorry dude…


Rakshet


A shot of the NIST canteen.


Raghav – He didn’t know the camera was there until I called his name.


NIST hallway.


Here’s their Sports Hall – nice, eh?


Here’s the hallway that leads into our different meeting rooms – that’s Lee over there.


The conference room where Committee Three (Human Trafficking) was. Very messy desks.


Never give Jenny the camera – or you’ll end up like me here.


Revenge time! Thanks for the pic, Rakshet.


Me acting all professional as Yu-Ting and I discuss the resolution.


Rakshet and Yu-Ting at the top left corner.


Some of the Harrow MUN team. From left to right: Won Jae, Me, Sharp, Chris, Raghav, and Mr. Way (MUN Advisor).


Another pic of some of the Harrow MUN team. From left to right: Mrs. Keys (The other MUN advisor and also my English teacher), Me, Won Jae, Raghav, Sharp, Chris (did he get taller??), and Mr. Way.


That’s “Cyprus” (very outspoken) and me (Denmark) in our MUN session.


Aishu and Chris. Aishu, don’t be shy, look at the camera!


Harrow MUN team. From left to right: Saneh, Sharp Won Jae, Fay, Raghav M., Deer, Raghav S., Me, Noon, Chris, Nad, and Lewis.


Late Birthday presents that Nehal and Jenny gave me. (Your gift is really nice, Nehal. Jenny – your beans are REALLY disgusting [but still tasty] – I should have listened to Rakshet’s warning!)


Some of the MUN souvenirs we got.


Bertie Bott’s Beans flavors… Some yummy, some disgusting. Lynn got really bad ones like Soap, Earthworm, etc, etc. The worst I got was Dirt and Sardines – kept on getting Sardine. I think I had THREE of them. Great gift Jenny!

Well, that was how NIST went. It was fun and interesting. I can’t wait to go back to visit you guys at RIS… I think I’ll go there this week, but not sure what day yet. So if I will go, I’ll tell you guys. Last Thursday, there was the Autumn Bash (rock concert) and it was FUN. They’re much better than the Underground of RIS. Well, I took some pics of the concert but they all came out bad and only a few came out ok. They played songs from Blink 182, Offspring, Cranberries, Evanescence, Big Ass, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, etc, etc… (and they all sounded great) So here they are…


AUTUMN BASH


From left to right: Tina, Sai, Nun, Bifern, and Pat/Putt.


Mew on somebody’s shoulders.


Maek being lifted, too.


Crowd surfing! Many people fell to the ground though – must have hurt!

Oh, some of you have wanted to see how the books look, so here are some pics of them…


Wonderful textbooks. They’re not as thick and heavy as RIS’s (thank God). Shown above are my Math, Physics, Business, Chemistry, Biology, and English textbooks. History textbook is missing from the pic.


Our notebooks… Different sizes and different colors – how lovely. Shown above are my Business, English, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Math, Business Key Terms, and Thai Key Terms notebooks. The other English and Thai notebooks are missing from the pic.


Our homework diary (student planner).


Just inside the planner. That’s the calendar. Three terms, three half-term breaks, one month Christmas break, several house competitions and etc. They even have a page for School Nurse visits. If this was my seventh grade class, half the class’s, especially Mandy’s and Mick’s woud be full since they always went to the clinic. Mandy, do you still remember when Mick said he had a stomachache and came back with ice pack on his head? Yeah, good old days…


Just my schedule. Basically have English, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Math, Business, ICT, P.E., History, Life Studies, and Thai. An awful lot, eh?


Here’s the Harrow folder.


The textbooks again.


Just all the books and the boater.

Oh, and if you guys want to see more of Harrow, watch CNN “GLOBAL NEWS” (or something) on UBC 53 this THURSDAY (Oct. 21) at 20:30 – There’ll be a report on HARROW – they came to film last Monday. Wonder what they’ll put on there. Anyways, see you guys later. If I go to RIS this week, I’ll tell you guys – good luck with school!

Currently Playing: Len Kong Soong by Big Ass.

Currently Reading: Deception Point by Dan Brown