My First day in School

On the day school started,i woke up in the early morning to find that the sky still pitch dark. I asked "Is this morning yet, where's the sun? Is'nt morning supposed to be bright ,sunny. Huh?". "Silly" they smiled and laughed.

Still feeling drowsy, i took my breakfast, sunnyside-up sandwiched with two slice of bread. Had my fill with a glass of milk,then my dad walked me to school before going of to work. That was the only opportunity for me and my dad, to communicate, in our own world with our own means.

It was a 15 minutes walk to school which was located along Henderson Road.
Walking through a large open-spaced parking lot,we came to a small road. Opposite across the road was a chinese temple on the left,and on the right, across a road perpenticular to this road was a block of HDB flats. Next to it was the hawker center,selling all of my favourites.

On crossing the road we went straight ahead,passing by a 4-storey flat with shophouses on the ground level,there on the corner end was a coffee shop. Finally, crossed a traffic light,on the main road itself. When we reached the school gate where there was a bus-stop, my dad had to carry me up a long flight of stairs leading to the school,in order to save time.

When we reach school, my dad left me at the school assembly area outside the school and then left for work. I was left on my own, as it was still early there was only a few student was on the assembly area, slowly a few more arrive. A few by a few, filling up the empty spaces. It was time for assembly to commence,all the students rise for flag raising ceremony. I had some difficulties to get up, it was a struggle and it took time for me to finally rise.

After the assembly, classes by classes were leaded to our respective classroom.
Walking along a shelter pathway linked to the main entrance of the school building, on entering on the right was the principle office,on the left was some display of school projects. On turning right, there was a staircase leading to classrooms on different levels,my classroom was on the second level. There was no classrooms on the ground level,there was just the teachers's room , a conference room and at the end of the corridor path was the library located adjacent to the lavatory
at the turn of the corner.Beside the library was a bookshop,here you will come to the multi-purpose hall where the canteen was.

In class,we were only allowed to speak in english except for mother tongue lessons.Felt awkward at first but i adapted to it as day went by. During recess time,the upper primary pupil were to guide us on ,how to quene up in front of the stall to order food and keeping the change. Most importantly to bring the hot food on the table.

i was new to everyone in school. Every classmates were totally strangers.