As a new teacher, I was assigned to go for a camp with students and some other new teachers.
The venue was at Batu Pahat Chinese High School.
Although I was quite unwilling to spent my holidays for the camp, I was a little excited for the first time to join this kind of activities.
It's a leadership camp and all of the students are leaders of clubs and societies =)
I met few of my students of my classes. Feel glad they are so passion and energetic to participate the camp. These are young people. And I am so old compared with them >.<
After the torturing 5 hours journey from KL to Batu Pahat, we arrived the school around 5 p.m.
Honestly, the first day was mainly for staying at hostel and dinner without anything to do.
But I was quite impressed with their environment and buildings. The school's entrance's design is very similar with those private colleges/universities. Very grand XD. And they have less buildings with more trees and spaces compared to Chong Hwa. Secondly, student's art works are part of the design of school. They are beautiful but some of the art works are destroyed because lack of maintenance.
While students were striving hard to achieve their missions, we teachers were enjoying the view and fresh environment surrounding the school. Then, we can have our own activities with a lot of free time. So we decided to hang around Batu Pahat. It is a small village. The taxi are very old and they look older than me. Moreover, teacher's hostel is a very comfortable place to stay (better than I could imagine). It is same as a 3 stars apartment except for no tv and only normal bed provided. However, I was satisfied with it.
During our way home, we stopped at Ayer Keroh station to have a rest. All of us were so eager to tapao KFC as this is the best food we can get there. Our bus driver came down to have KFC with us. And, he lost his key don't know where. I was thinking, “What?". How could he lost something so important? How are we going to get back with 41 students there? We stayed calm and tried to find the keys everywhere near the station. Boys went into men's washroom to search for the key. But we couldn't find it.
The final solution was to wait for another bus from KL. This would cost us 2 hours.
But our mighty uncle manage to restart the engine with his special tools within half an hour.
Phew! Did he steal someone's car with that technique before? Lol.
Luckily, we were back to school safely. After most of the students went back with their family, I drove myself to get home. I miss my home so much despite the 3 stars hostel was quite comfortable. No picture was taken. Too busy.
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