It was the early morning of the second of January, my first day in secondary school. What could possibly go wrong? i thought to myself. The answer was simple,"Everything".

I stepped in the unfamiliar grounds of the school where mom had dropped me off. Standing there at the foyer disoriented, accompanied only by my schoolbag, a glimmer of excitement and a whole lot of fear. Nonetheless, I was different from the other seconday one students. I looked around and glanced at many faces. All either confused or afraid, but none familiar. As I had expected, there wouldn't be anyone that I would know, afterall, no one from my primary school had chosen to come to Kent Ridge.

I went upstairs to the third level where everyone gathered outside the hall waiting to go in. I waited with them until the students started streaming into the hall and i just followed suit. Mummy had told me before i left home that my class was 1E4 and so i seated myself behind a shortrow of strangers seated behind the 1E4 class sign. I took out my book and pretended to read while still turning to my left and right occasionally still in desperate attempt to look for any primary school mate of mine.

A while later, this massive giant i came to know as Vanna came and sat in front of me. I was terrified of him and thinking of what he might do to me if i had offended him even in the slightest way.

Miss Chamb the principal, spoke into the microphone and the hall fell silent in less than a second. I was stunned by the authority of this woman and so i too kept silent and kept my eyes on her. She gave a long welcoming speech and i gave myself a long leg massage as my legs were getting cramped. After that, the classes were dismissed and i was brought to my new classroom where everyone had to introduce themselves and where i met all my new teachers.

after this, the student councillors brought us all back up to the hall and various ice-breaker games were played. This session helped me to get to know my classmates a little better and i was grateful for it. One of the games played was called " Funny Hand" as i vividly remember. Classmates had to join hands and without letting go, untangle the humant knot formed by the class to form a whole circle again.

After the ice-breakers session, we were brought on a tour around the school and the briefed on what to bring for our orientation camp that friday. We were then dismissed and that day remained in my mind as the day i started my seconday school life. (=