I was awakened by Alicia in the morning. I went back to my apartment to tidy up. Then we went to the opposite to eat lunch with Alicia, the last plate of fried tomato with egg, with a plate of rice. We bumped into Teck Chong, Tee Yong and Weiyang
After lunch, we headed to Carrefour by bus and rushed back to apartment in cab.
The Final event which was the grandest and marks the near ending of our trip, it was the graduation ceremony. We all walked to a building in school for it and as we entered the room, lots of important people were in there seated and waiting for us.
The building
The ceremony
The principal started off the ceremony, followed by speeches made by different people as the speeches continued on, memories of what happened in the last 40 days just came gushing back into my mind like all just happened yesterday.
Especially when it reached to Kia Fu turn to represent us students that attended the trip, in his speech it was mentioned about our first times, from how we were just strangers to meeting new friends and becoming close, the happenings of pleasant and unpleasant things that happened such as choked toilet bowls, inconvenience caused due to certain events to nice weathers. Also, the adventures we had during this trip, exploring the unknown and getting to experience it ourselves.
Then it was followed by a casual chat, handing out of certificates to us one by one and finally ends the closing ceremony the group photo taking.
During the ceremony
Refreshments
From this ceremony, we got to know some of the students studying in this school.
We went back to apartment to start packing and rest for a bit
Then headed to Wen Hua Jie but when we reached I wanted to go to Chicony to rest first as I was not feeling too good and Eileen and Alicia accompanied me. Thus, the rest who were Baohui, Bernice, Xiu Jin, Yan Khee and Li Zhen went to Wen Hua jie
We then sat at KFC to rest and chat while waiting for time to pass. We met with the rest for dinner at a restaurant with the friends that we made at the ceremony.
The Entrance
Atmosphere
Group photo
We also got hear the voices of 2 singing talents, the lady, Li Zhen(left) and the guy, Cheong Rui(right)
They got applause from the next table people too during their singing.
After dinner, we walked around the supermarket while the rest who wanted to go back, went back first.
Then, we took a bus back. This was a day that the night was still young as an adventure was about to brew. To start it off with something gross was that the bus we boarded had a mess by someone who threw up in the bus. As usual, after boarding the bus, we mostly would start chatting among ourselves. As we chatted along, we found out about a history of the place that we were going to walk pass later on. That the backdoor of the school’s gate had a cemetery located nearby. For me, hearing this kind of sends some chill up my spine and gets hair standing. A place that even the students that were going to bring us walkthrough do not usually or do not walk through there at night.
Alighting from the bus was the starting of our adventure. It would be the first and the last time we will walk by the back gate of the school for this trip. The people who took part in the adventure was the students we know from the ceremony, Alicia, Baohui, Eileen, Xiu Jin, Bernice, Li Zhen, Yan Khee, Jian Wen and Tee Yong. So let the games begin.
At night, the area was creepy, with little lights source, we had to walk through a muddy path before walking on a pavement. There was the silence of the night, chilly air and also there wasn’t really any human traffic there. Also to add to the already eerie atmosphere was the weird voices that the guys made and the flashes of the camera lights. We walked pass a path that leads to the graves. Another thing that happened while we were walking, the people following behind said they believe they saw me walking behind when I actually was walking right in front.
After that, we found out that there was a possibility that the person they saw was a girl which looked like me.
The students studying there started heading back to their apartments one by one. We said our goodbyes to them one by one. We made it back to our apartment in one piece
I rested after reaching back to our apartments. I tried packing but failed to pack finish as I did not know what was the best possible way to pack the items in and how to save as much space as possible. Thus, I ended up lying on the bed. While being super worried about how to pack my stuff, there was finally someone who came to my rescue. My superhero for the day was none other than Bernice. My luggage was eventually packed by a professional, Bernice in a flash.
After my luggage was about to be packed finished as some items needed to be packed the next day, I knocked out soon after Bernice packed. Thus, did not get to stayed up for the last night. I guess it was the continuous late nights up that really had my energy drained completely.
