First Day of School

First day of school! Right now I’m writing this entry from the computer in the common room as I wait for my mom to come pick me up. Today has been tiring. Not in a sense that we worked a lot or anything but because we were told so many things about our classes, our behaviour, our community service projects, our Sixth Form Award, and all the activities we will get. Also, Bifern and I were made House Captains this year, so this will mean some more work for us. In addition to our tiring work, we will have to act as “models” for the lower years and behave well as well as guide them throughout their years. For me, I will have to guide the Year 7s in Byron House along with Bifern and Aom and get to know all of them to make our house more “united”.

———- Anyway, we went into Registration [Homeroom Time] and basically saw our classmates. Byron has the most remaining students in the Sixth Form with 15 people [I know, it's very little]. We listened to our Tutor, Mr. Gray, talk about the different subjects and basically learned about what I told you earlier, our duties. However, by Period 2, we forgot that there was assembly and we decided not to attend it since by the time we realized it, it was already 10 minutes into the assembly. So we just stayed in our classroom and worked on our schedule, worked on our reflection about our previous year, and go around getting teachers to sign and give permission for us to take the certain subject.

At one point, Mr. Wise, the Head of Byron House, came to our class and pulled Bifern and I out for a little chat. We were informed that we are to be Byron’s House Captains. A little tradition is broken here since there’s usually only one House captain per house but this year, we are taking a step further and making two people the House Captains so that we can work together and help divide our time, thus giving us less work. Then we had the House Assembly where we got introduced to the new teachers and learned a bit on Froggy, our Mascot, that was stolen last year. In addition, Mr. Wise said we now have TWO Froggy’s – one male and the other a female. Sort of representing our House Captains [Haha]. Bifern was saying that we might as well bring the tiny Froggy doll she has at home to make it a complete family!

Being in the Sixth Form means another thing – we are allowed to eat lunch quicker. Well, not quicker but we wouldn’t have to wait in line with the rest of the school. We can just go straight in through the doors and up the stairs to consume our food. Excellent! After we ate, we came to the common room and played some cards to let time fly by until we realized it was time to go back to our tutors and we would have to go and introduce ourselves to the younger students. So Bifern, Aom, and I went to the Year 7 class and did several activities with them.

After doing some sort of student council thing, it was the end of the day! We didn’t even realize it! So I dropped by the ICT Department to see Mr. Way about MUN and the Conference coming up. I was told that MUN will be every Tuesday. Uh-oh, a problem right there. I have the Twelfth Night Drama on Tuesdays, too! So I will have to ask Mr. Herbert to see if he can possibly move the Drama activity to another day. This should be fine considering there are several other people in both Drama and MUN…

With MUN and Drama on my mind, I would have to go sign up for the sports we would like to do for our P.E. class. We signed up at the Sports Hall for Fitness since several other Year 11s were also there and by the time we were done, it was time for me to go home. However, my mom isn’t here yet and it would be about one hour until it gets here. Well, now it’s only 15 minutes away… Anyway, tomorrow will be another tiring day since we’ll be out doing our community service. For Bifern, Kitti, Joe, and I, we will be going to the Rainbow House Foundation [or something] and we will have to play and interact with them. Sounds tiring and we’ll be there for the whole day tomorrow.

Now that I think about it, it’s gonna be one tiring year. The reason I’m typing is this is simply because I have nothing to do right now that I’m in the common room. This is just the first day and people already brought in stereos, keyboards, comic books, beanbag chairs, CDs, and so many other things. I wonder how tomorrow will be as well as the rest of the year. Bifern mentioned that because we are House Captains, we have the power to assign people to do what they want during House Competitions. Haha! Get ready Byron House! You’re gonna be assigned to do so many things you’ll be tired. But of course, this is so that we’ll end up at Number 1 at the end of the year! Actually, Raghav said that the Sports Captain does that. But anyway, same thing! Last year we were forth out of six houses – not bad, but we’re gonna try and make it number one this year.

Alright, it’s almost time that my mom should be here so I better get going and I guess I’ll be writing this some time later… Jeesh, this is a record! Two entries in two days! One day actually, since I finished the previous one at 1 AM! Anyway, see you all later and by the way, I changed the shoutbox since several people were complaining that they can’t post messages. As for the song, I’ll still play Fix You since it’s the song that is stuck in my head these days…

Currently Playing: Fix You by Coldplay