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Yes, as promised, I would now continue with my post on Orientation.

So Friday. Friday was probably the most fun day for the entire orientation. It was mainly taken up by War Games, WHICH WAS VERY VERY VERY VERY FUN.

So, what’s war games about? Basically, each of the school’s 4 faculties “fight” each other in a free for all in a bid to be the War Games champion. We are supposed to throw water bombs at other faculties’ shirts, and the water will drip down to a bottle below. The faculty with the least amount of water will then win the game. As they say, a picture tells a thousand words, so I will let them do the talking now.

The “Killing Field”, with benches dividing each faculty’s territory

Our faculty shirt. Note that there are 2 shirts, but only 1 bottle to collect the water. One of the shirts is actually a decoy.

My faculty during War Games briefing:

In anticipation of war:

Me getting ganged by members of 3 other faculties.

All at peace after the games:

Our faculty when the results were announced - WE ARE THE WINNERS!

Actually, to tell the truth, we won purely because of tactic. (Athena is after all, the Goddess of Wisdom, Military Tactics and Weaving) Basically, for the first half an hour, we were clashing with Artemis (the blue shirt people), while Ares (the red shirts) were clashing with Apollo (the yellow shirts). We managed to hit Artemis quite hard, and they also hit us quite badly. (Although sadly, they were throwing water bombs at the decoy shirt most of the time). Then suddenly, both Artemis and Athena people were getting tired of attacking each other, so we decided to gang Ares. So it was basically a huge mess at the Ares battleground, with all the other 3 faculties ganging them. Pretty soon, both of Ares shirts were damn wet.

Then it happened that some Ares people started asking us to gang Apollo as their shirt was still damn dry. So everyone in Ares territory rushed over to attack Apollo. (Actually, Athena and Apollo have a truce, and we believe that Artemis and Ares had one too). To their credit, Apollo’s defense is really strong, and we had a hard time getting close to their shirt. However, we managed to inch our way there with our own human line formed by the 3 faculties. So basically, their defenses were wasted and we managed to hit Apollo.

The day was also very hot, so before the end of War games, lots of water actually evaporated from our shirt, unlike Apollo’s, which was very wet towards the end of the game. Also, it is also believed that because of Artemis’ carelessness, they actually knocked over our bottle 3 times with their bombs. So when the game ended, we had literally no water in our bottle at all, and we emerged victorious.

Then, in the evening, we had a campfire to mark the end of our 2 week orientation. It was a very touching event. All of us were cheering, singing and dancing and we really felt bonded together. Too bad it was raining for the first part, and we had our “campfire” in the school hall. But in the end, the rain cleared, and we had our proper campfire! Here’s a few pictures:

Our campfire made of LED lights

The actual campfire

Anyway, lectures have been going on for a week already, and next week we are going to have our first tutorial (and I still have not completed my Maths Tutorial :P) Anyway, I am getting to like my CT more and more, and I hope to enjoy my first year in college.

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Till next time,
cheers

Tags: college life, hwachong, orientation