Teacher's Day Celebrations @ ACJC
ACJC was one of the few schools in Singapore to celebrate Teacher's Day on September 2. Our day started with ACES (All Children Exercise Simultaneously), and for that, we had morning assembly out in the field facing the bleachers and following that, we returned to what we've been doing for half of Term 3: Body Combat. The two trainers were back to lead us in supposedly fun workouts. However, the sky decided to work against our favour (or to our favour, depending on whether one liked body combat). Dark clouds loomed, wind blew strongly and soon the rain decided to fall. We had to end the workout early at 8.15am, and we returned to the shelter just in time before the downpour came.
By 8.45am all of us (the students) were seated in the Hall ready for the concert. This year's Teacher's Day Celebrations theme was "ACWood" (named after Hollywood). Thanks to the Councillors, the route from the Staff Room to the Hall has been turned into a Walk of Fame similar to the one at Hollywood, with stars showing all the teachers' names lining the road. The hall is decked out with gold and silver stars hanging from the parapet on both sides of the hall and long blue cloth hung over the students. The stars end at the end of the aisle furthest from the stage with Kelvyna Chan, following which a long red carpet was rolled down the aisle to the front of the stage.
There were some hiccups during the concert (mainly technical), but otherwise it was a great success. After the main concert, some J1 Drama members (including me) put up a separate, private performance in LT4. Because we were dancing to some hot Michael Jackson stuff (with our Drama President, Suraj, as "Michael Jackson" himself), there were concerns about the mental well-being of the teachers should this item be put up during the main concert, so we decided to make it private. The performance was short, but there were lots of praises for the performance.
After that performance, I returned to NHSS with some other NHrians from ACJC. The Sec 4s were having their Biology Practical Papers (I assume for the NHSS Prelims); the Sec 3s are away from school having their Adventure Camp; the rest of the school was probably slacking away, since it is the last day of term. Peiyu, Yen Nee and I headed into the Staff Room, where we met Mdm Sia first. Then Ms Ang came along, and after that we went to look for Mrs Lip (former Ms Wong, Biology teacher) and Mdm Foo. Around the Staff Room I saw a few teachers I knew, but there were also quite a number of new teachers around.
We then went down to the canteen where we saw Mrs Wong already sitting down having lunch with Abraham. Supposedly her baby is due December (yep, she's got a big tummy now!), hopefully a Christmas baby. :) For lunch, I ordered from the Western food stall, but I did wish I had tried the Miso Chicken Ramen from the new Japanese Cuisine stall beside the Western food stall (replacing Italian Food). During lunch, we talked about quite a number of things with Mrs Wong, and by the time we ended, it was around 1pm. We bid goodbye to her and Peiyu, Yen Nee and I headed back to our respective homes.
By 8.45am all of us (the students) were seated in the Hall ready for the concert. This year's Teacher's Day Celebrations theme was "ACWood" (named after Hollywood). Thanks to the Councillors, the route from the Staff Room to the Hall has been turned into a Walk of Fame similar to the one at Hollywood, with stars showing all the teachers' names lining the road. The hall is decked out with gold and silver stars hanging from the parapet on both sides of the hall and long blue cloth hung over the students. The stars end at the end of the aisle furthest from the stage with Kelvyna Chan, following which a long red carpet was rolled down the aisle to the front of the stage.
There were some hiccups during the concert (mainly technical), but otherwise it was a great success. After the main concert, some J1 Drama members (including me) put up a separate, private performance in LT4. Because we were dancing to some hot Michael Jackson stuff (with our Drama President, Suraj, as "Michael Jackson" himself), there were concerns about the mental well-being of the teachers should this item be put up during the main concert, so we decided to make it private. The performance was short, but there were lots of praises for the performance.
After that performance, I returned to NHSS with some other NHrians from ACJC. The Sec 4s were having their Biology Practical Papers (I assume for the NHSS Prelims); the Sec 3s are away from school having their Adventure Camp; the rest of the school was probably slacking away, since it is the last day of term. Peiyu, Yen Nee and I headed into the Staff Room, where we met Mdm Sia first. Then Ms Ang came along, and after that we went to look for Mrs Lip (former Ms Wong, Biology teacher) and Mdm Foo. Around the Staff Room I saw a few teachers I knew, but there were also quite a number of new teachers around.
We then went down to the canteen where we saw Mrs Wong already sitting down having lunch with Abraham. Supposedly her baby is due December (yep, she's got a big tummy now!), hopefully a Christmas baby. :) For lunch, I ordered from the Western food stall, but I did wish I had tried the Miso Chicken Ramen from the new Japanese Cuisine stall beside the Western food stall (replacing Italian Food). During lunch, we talked about quite a number of things with Mrs Wong, and by the time we ended, it was around 1pm. We bid goodbye to her and Peiyu, Yen Nee and I headed back to our respective homes.
yours truly, tobias at 11:05 pm
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