Yesterday, no, Wednesday we went for Learning Journey.
I so want to post it because it was really FUN! And i seriously think i need to look at the calendar. I'm losing track of the dates!! This must be the first sign of ageing!




Wednesday
School started later today. Which was great! I only need to wake up at 7a.m;this is why staying near your school is good. But, i took advantage of the lateness of "school starting", so i only woke up at 7.30...

Well, at school, we just lined up as usual, waiting for Ms Wang to finish taking our attendence. And it seemed like she took forever. The other classes had already chosen their own group leaders for the trip, and our class? Ms Wang was still taking our attendence... =.= So, when almost all the classes had left (with only 3/6 left behind), MsWang took the oppportunity of the emptiness of the Parade Ground(is this the reason why she took so long to mark our names down?), and made us spread out around her(by the way, she made me do some leader job). She told us some stuff about HOlland VIllage, and that she is a 'native'(i think she thinks that Singapore is some huge country with many states and that H.V is some state too... WOW! O.o) of Holland V. and blah di blah di blah.... Later, our class filed into some yellow coloured charted bus. (WeiYi was like so eager to see me go up the bus; she wanted to see whether i could hit my head on the top of the bus, and i did... OH, the goodness of being TALLL!)

THe bus stopped us in front of the Cold Storage Supermart (is this what it is called?) Once we were out of the bus and down on the ground (finally!), Ms Wang called to her sheep again, like a shepard (i can imagine her carrying a staff, sporting an moustache and beard...and wearing a cloak!! Can you see that too?) Then, she told us her handphone number, so that we could contact her whenever there is a need to. So i took that down and led my group off.

But the sky darkened drastically after about 2 interviews. So we were stranded at some newspaper shop. One kind lady came forward and offered to shelter us across. Well, it must be hard for her to walk back and forth 5 times. Er, 6 to be more precise, i bet she had to walk back the other way too! THen we felt kind of guilty for making her do such hard labour, because at least 3 of us had an umbreally in our bags =[

So, we ran across the road, interviewed the pet shop owner,the bank guy, the town council desk woman etc... Well, i really must say that some of these to-be interviewees were rather nasty, they refused to be interviewed and made us go away...

Then we decided that our umbrellas were certainly too flimsy and too small, because we kept getting wet and the wind could blow our umbrellas the other way. We were indeed, SOAKING WET, so Lorin suggested we should go and eat somewhere. We were sort of relieved to hear that and ran for the food court nearby. Once we were inside, it felt somewhat like heaven. Everywhere was so dry.... Our spirits lightened a little. At least we were happy there was some where nice and dry. I ate Yong Tao Foo for lunch and a cup of guava juice.

After our lunch, we felt very full. So we were fueled up for our next round of interviews!

Aijia sugguested a place called COld Rock, which is just some ice cream shop, but the shop keeper said something about being not ready, so we decided to come back later for some ice-cream.

We went off rather dejectedly, we want ice cream! Ok, so we tried to locate the police post, but we couldnt find it. THen we went into some laundry shop, which we happened to chance upon. Priscilla was keen to interview people, so she took the job of asking the old uncle about his job and whatsoever.. Really, i didnt do anything much but sit back and watch... HAHAH!

So, after going to that laundry shop, we wanted to get to the police post. Since Mr Low keeps talking about police and security and blah blah blah... WE were determined to find the police post, if not die doing it... THen some woman we met, with some Henry Park kids(i think she's bringing them to school)told us where the police post was, so we thanked her and set off.

Finally!!! We found the police post based on the kind lady's instructions. There, we met Sheryl's group. THe police man was quite stern and he only allowed 4 people in his room to do the interview with him. So Lorin and Janice stayed in the room to do their part of interviewing and Sheryl and Jacqueline from the other group stayed in there too. So me, Aijia, Priscilla, Sahidah and Sindya(both from another group) had to stand outside the police post.

Just then, there was a noise behind us. It was mumbling something i couldnt hear. THen Sindya exclaimed loudly in shock ,' Uncle! YOu follow us here too?' Then i saw an indian man emerge from behind the walls. He was rather a fat one, large eyes staring at us. I think he is drunk as he was holding a beer can in his hand and slighty swaying about. Then he sat down on a stool somewhere and started scolding the policeman who was inside the police post. He wasnt having his wits about him, as he was talking as if though the policeman was in front of him.
'Stupid lah, how can you policeman not know where the Town Council is? Shameful leh. YOu are the police man around here"
THen he suddenly directed a question to us 'right?'(reffering to the policeman being lousy). THen we all just stared at each other. THen the Indian man got up and walked toward a poster on the glass door. He said ,'See this? This man ah (referring to a poster of Mas Selamat), die already, huh, then they go put her for what ah, so stupid! Right?"
Sindhya, not knowing what to say just answered back ,' they havent caught him so the poster is still there.'
THen the indian man said,' but he die already, cannot put dead person's picture here, the police so stupid still want to leave it here, take down lah!"

Soon enough, the policeman came out looking rather angry. He started scolding the indian man about telling youngsters about such things, and that someone died, and the policeman scolded the indian man, asking him why he had been bad mouthing him in front of strangers. The indian man seemed scared and then went home...

After the interview with the policeman, we went along again, and separated with Sheryl's group. Coming back to the indian man scene, it seems like the indian man had been following Sheryl's group from the hawker center(they went to eat lunch there) all the way to the police post. FREAKKY! Indian man's a stalker! O.o

SO, our job was done!! We went back to COld ROck and sat down for an ice cream each (only Priscilla didnt eat, which was such a pity, the ice cream was nice!!) I ordered a bubblegum and mint flavour topped with gummi bears. Some thing interesting was that they took the ice cream and mixed it on a frozen slab of granite(i think) and 'fried' it like frying a plate of chao kuay tiao.

After the ice cream, we went back to where Ms Wang wanted to meet us. Ms Wang was frantic, she was jumping up and down and asking why i didnt pick up the phone. So i asked ,' What phone?' Then Ms Wang got angrier and said that she tried to contact me so that she knows about the whereabouts of my group(most girls/groups stayed with her as i suspect they didnt have umbrellas to move around as freely as our group.). And really, when i went to check my phone there was 2 missed calls and a message from her, asking where we were=.= Must have been too noisy to have noticed my phone ringing.



Ahh, the rest of the details are boring already, as we were back to school... =[





TOMORROW PET-A-THON! boring again........................

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