Thursday, March 13, 2008
I've almost finished packing, what a Herculean task!
I realised a lot of people were groaning in disbelief last week or so when it was announced that they were expected to wear only school shirts throughout the trip. Anyway, CJ said not to worry because "no one has 7 school shirts, and she can't fault you for wearing other shirts."
Actually, if you think about it, you only need 4 shirts because it's cold enough to wear one for 2 days. Hence, the juniors can wear their 2 Orientation Step-Up and 2 PE t-shirts. Not that I'm demanding it of anyone, of course.
Funnily though, that inspired me to go home and count how many school shirts I own (yes, I'm that free). I think the total number of wearable school shirts comes up to about 16.
Let's see:
2 PE (old+new)
2 NJ Polo (guy S, M)
2 La Famiglia (white+black)
1 Cultural Mapping
1 05IP05 Class tee
1 Aqua House tee
2 Wassup IP (S, M)
2 Odyssey (white+black)
1 Azara
Choir Polo (05-06)
Choir Polo (06-07)
This does not include the unwearable NJ Polo and Aqua House tees that are too small. Plus I've lost some PE t-shirts along the way. Ridiculous, really, the amount of t-shirts one accumulates in NJC. I'm sure my classmates who've been OGLs for 2006 and 2008 have another 7 more shirts or so.
Therefore, I actually am wearing all school shirts to Italy. It's basically pointless though, since we'll probably be wearing another 2 layers on top at any one time.
Today, people in chem class asked me if I'm excited to be going. Truth be told, I don't feel the excitement. It'll probably only come at the airport. It's likely because I've already been to Italy with the choir in 2006, and to Korea with the KSA people in 2007. School trips are fun!
I'm going to miss many things - my family, schoolmates, my laptop, my DBSK, Palm Sunday, Good Friday service, chicken rice, etc.
5 more hours till I have to be at the airport. I pray that everyone will be safe, no luggage will be lost, no one will get sick, and we can perform something we will be proud of.
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