My first day. and the last.

I still remember the first day of school vividly.
waking up to school real early and so excited. felt also proud for waking up so early at 6-30. primary school days consisted of waking up at 7-40 and waking cheez tv dragonball z at 8.
got on the train from ashfield to strathfield. strathfield to epping. with my parents by my side of course. with my big bulky bag my dad brought from china. had every single book that the list we got in the mail said. including a 64mb memory stick, which cost me 50 bucks back in the day. on special. we were so worried that if we didn't have it, then our marks would get affected xD ahh typical.
after about a few minutes of waiting at epping bus stop, seeing all the older grades and feeling scared. seeing all the people in my grade and most of their parents with them too.
get on the harris park school bus. sit down with my parents. so the trip seemed to go with a breeze. i particularly notice adam kelly-mill's parents sending him off and saying goodbye.
finally reach school. and i see all my peers looking around and standing lost as i was. many i recognised from tution and went over to meet and greet. and there were the ones from my old school too. before not too long. my parents said goodbye and we were to stand in that daunting thing they called the quadrangle. half the school was missing, as mr quinlan calmly explained why, which was followed up by a speech from rose - the current school captain back then. i think i might have been too busy talking to either shiva or joseph. but soon enough, they start blurting out these letters and numbers
"7A TO L1.1, 7K TO L1.2... "
i didn't pay attention, and soon the crowd disperses, leaving me confused and dazed as to where everyone was going. what were these weird letters and numbers they blurted out. where they something mathematical.
after about 5 minutes of pacing around looking for people. finally somehow manage to find my class 7K. say sorry to mrs mason all embarassed and just went to grab any seat. i saw shiva in my class, and joseph, and dan who i didn't know at the time, but he went to my old school.
first lesson. double DT. in T1.2 no idea what or where that was. but with the aid of the school diary map and directions from seniors, we got to the class, where most of the people were seated. was walking with joseph, who was the only person i knew, but as soon as we walked into class, he joined his hurstville clan, consisting of don and other people. i chose to sit next to adam kelly-mills as i recognised him from the bus trips. anyways being the enthusiastic student. i try to have a good posture and listen really intently to whatever he was saying. but after about 20 minutes, i couldnt take it no more. this mr bastian guy was just too boring. striked up a very formal douchey conversation with adam, about politics or something. the details i can't remember.


that's what i remember from my first day of school. other things i remember from when the school was old.
- no canteen where it is now, instead if was a storage house for equipment i think.
- demountables on the oval, which consisted of classrooms and the canteen
- bare dirt oval pitch. whethered by the million of students (mainly boys) playing soccer and football on it
- haribo coke bottle lollies for 30c at the canteen
- lolly vending machine, which consisted of skittles sour packets for $1.30
- coke can machines
- recycling crate behind girls' change room. had so many aluminium crushed cans in it
- richard and his apparent fame with the ladies. and his amazing 1.6 time of 6:36.
- peer support camp, and people going on dacking rampages. was trying to be gee with the LT's like leo danny and drew, but failed.
- LT's being gay
- AK ballers. michael li always calling james JA-MEZZZ
- Michael yoon being a hardcore baller, and having beef with michael li
- James (Zhang) and his awesome fan hat which he brought to swimming carnival
- That massive hill they have a ryde aquatic centre, and how we just raced each other up and down it
- Trying to join into a massive game of cricket at swimming carnival with all the curry seniors. i can remember shiva and danny also being a part of that.
- Going down to the farm at recess and lunch with my homies dan, shiva and joseph. watering our crops. my carrots were da best. until they got eaten by gay birds, and i begged joseph (my ag partner) to give me some on his row.
- Gay 7L boys accusing me of liking helena in the first few days of school because i mentioned something about her always rolling up her sleeves for her sport uniform
- Awesome peer support leaders eun-ji and gary. and joseph's peer support leader gavin, who had long hair.

Now looking back on that first day. I realise how young and stupid we were xD. not a bad thing. we've learnt since then. and all these things have come to develop us into who we are today . those gay LT's we detested once upon a time. i came to discover how wonderful and kind they all were after year 9. maybe we just hated on them, cause we didn't belong to them.

I can not really remember of any bad times. mainly good. it's been a hell of a journey, both physically and mentally. i guess it's only the start of the road. we've finally reached the start of the hiking track. now its turn for us to walk along it.
best wishes for the future.
i'll be blogging sometime soon to thank y'all
for now
take care everyone
i'll be seeing you around