'DAY ALPHA OF ORIENTATION'

Like all freshmen, I was quite troubled on the attire for the first day of orientation. In the end, after several indecisive and hesitating moments, I decided on wearing my class polo tee and pants, no jeans. Hours later, my decision had been proved to be a right one.

The moment we reached the T19 foyer, we saw that many people like us are already there, queuing up. Since following the majority could hardly be wrong, we followed suit. We were actually quite some distance back in the queue, but after some adjustments made by the facilitators there, we were halfway through.

We collect our freshmen's bag and parted different ways, into our classes. My class is DAC/FT/1A/02. The moment I was in the hall, I asked for my class, get a seat, then keep quiet, haha. Then the facilitators tried to teach us cheers. Now i know why is it always so difficult to teach cheers and get them bonded on their first day, as everything comes down to a simple question- 'Will you follow a stranger's order?'. However, I could see that they were trying to make it fun and enjoyable for us.

We were then bought back to the classes, and have some bonding games, such as saying good morning to the people before you that sort of stuffs. These games are very common, i know it will be part of the class bonding games but i still could not remember their names, damn...

Then we have our lunch. It was so cramped that you could not even find a place to share seats with other poly students. So we have to shift from one canteen to another. The lecturers later said that its almost impossible to get a seat from 1100 to 1300. So is either you eat way before 1100 or way after 1300. We did manage to get a seat and have lunch. I missed GDL canteen, haha. Their servings are quite an amount but it is not as nice. Luckily, there are many more food courts, hopefully can find one in them that is nice and cheap.

After lunch, went back to the hall to listen to talks on how our education in SP will be and rules and regulations. Time to complain: fine, it all about fines. Once commit a mistake, bid farewell to $50, haha. Then we had games. The games is not really well done, we do not know the purpose of the games, such as connecting three straws together and drink from a bottle, then i asked my classmate, whose name i had forgotten, whether he knows the purpose. He smiled and shook his head. Of course some games are fun too. One example is the dog and bone, thought the purpose of the game was not explained, but its enjoyable.

As all the games came to an end, so was my first day of the orientation. I was exhausted and certainly, sweaty.