JC Orientation – Day 1!

OMG. I totally enjoyed the first day of Orientation!

My Orientation tee~ Printed at the front is the logo of this year’s Orientation theme – O’tiero, which means Unity.

The Orientation Group Leaders (OGLs) planned very well for us J1s as they started off the Orientation week with dances and drama. I really enjoyed all the drama and action at the moody start of the Orientation week.

After all the introduction and stuff by the OGLs, we had ice-breakers! In my Orientation Group (OG) MT08 O’xoxo you know you love me, there are 10 guys and 9 girls.

We started off with ice-breaker games! That was when I got to know the girls’ names, LOL. I already knew most of the guys’ names, so I was concentrating on remembering the girls’. You know, those ice-breaker games that involve names are quite scary. You either take up the not-that-good role in the game or you gotta do forfeit.

For instance, the first game that we had involved a person standing in the middle of the circle who has to hit the person whose name was called before another name is called. That’s the usual, and most common, kind, but ours had a variation. Girls form and sit an inner circle, and guys stand behind each girl. Every guy is in-charge of calling another girl’s name when the girl sitting in front of him gets called (by the guy who wanted to protect the girl sitting in front of him whose name was called [by the guy.............]) before the person in the middle whacks the girl.

We also played another ice-breaker game which involved girls and guys forming a circle in alternating genders, meaning boy-girl-boy-girl-… order. Then we had to hold hands. One of the boy-girl pair had to stand out of the circle first. The pair had to tap one of the “bonds” and immediately run off while the pair whose “bond” got tapped had to run in the opposite direction. Both pairs had to go one round and make their way back to the empty gap and snatch the space.

I was scared I’d make the girl I was holding on to fall! Luckily she didn’t fall. But one of the girls fell down while running with another guy. :\ LOL, we had lotsa lotsa lotsa fun! After lunch, there were station games~

5 stations in total. I enjoyed the one that involved hula hoops. In a circle, each of us was supposed to use our various body parts to make contact with the body parts of the people beside us. Ya, luckily, the paper I received required me to use my right wrist and left elbow. Eventually, my right wrist touched forehead of the guy on my right and my left elbow touched the chin of the guy on my left. Ya, no girls, LOLLLLLL. Anw, the body parts were facial ones and arm/hand. The hula hoop had to pass round the whole circle, through our bodies, while making sure the contacts don’t break. It was really fun.

Another one I enjoyed was named reBUTTal. It was a competition with another OG. There was a row of chairs, and with blindfolds on, we took turns to bounce with our butts on the chairs one by one to the opposite side, where the other OG was and who had to do the same thing to. When the members of both teams met, they had to play scissors, paper, stone. The loser would be out, and the winner would immediately continue on to the opposite side, where another member of the loser’s group would have already started bouncing in order to block. The aim of the game was to get as many people over to the other side as possible (obviously LOL). I was quite enthu and knocked into the person from the opposite team, LOLLL. Quite a hard knock, I guess. But luckily, since we were blindfolded, the person doesn’t know me and I don’t know him/her too. LOLLL.

I think I’m kinda long-winded. So ya, ice-breakers and station games were what mainly happened today, which I enjoyed thoroughly. Before I end off this post, I think the girls are quite nice. Some are quite outgoing, friendly and funny, while some are quite demure, quiet and gentle. They are generally quite approachable, so I enjoyed their company, along with the other guys. There is a guy from Anderson Sec, another from Catholic High, and a girl from Singapore Chinese Girls’ School; but they aren’t loners, which is a good thing. LOL.

And oh. The media came, and I didn’t even see them. Heng the unglam me wasn’t shown on TV. LOLLL.

Check out my O’Pack (Orientation Pack), btw. Bag, water bottle, Raffles wrist bands, a cool pen, orientation booklet, a big notebook, student handbook…