Our first day at St Leonard's College! (Group A)

G’ day mates!

After 2 nights’ stay at the Citigate hotel, we checked out in the early morning and moved off to St. Leonard’s College with our bulky luggage (Just joking, we left them in the bus).It was approximately an hour bus journey before we reached the college. We couldn’t contain our excitement when we saw the students of St. Leonard’s College.

When we entered the classroom, we immediately felt very comfortable as it was freezing cold on the outside. We were split into teams which made up of 3 Evgians and 3 students from St Leonard’s.

Our first lesson/task was to draw up a mud-map on ‘Where We Live’. As we know our own country well, we completed the mud-map very quickly. After which, we exchanged points about Singapore’s background.

(during their research to find what a durian looks like, the Leonardians were shocked to discover the 'No Durians in MRT Stations' signage.)

Following up was a task on ‘I see, I think, I wonder’. We were given pictures of both Melbourne and Singapore and we had to classify them accordingly. We also had to write down ten things we saw on the pictures and then come up with some questions that we wished to find resolutions to.

(that's Woodlands! so we spent time showing where our school and homes are at)

Soon, we were given around twenty minutes of break (which is our version of ‘recess’). We took this chance to see how the school is like and how the students behaved during their free time. Some of them played sports like table-tennis while others blasted music in the ‘common room’ but most of the students gathered indoors.

The picture below is of Ms Maz and the Muslim students who were fasting. Since they cannot eat during the break time, they decided to pose as golfers because the boys said they felt like Tiger Woods in our school blazers.

Imagine having your break with cool breeze in your hair and nature in the background. Simply splendid, I'll tell ya'!

“Time flies when we are having fun.” It was soon time for the second part of the lesson. We were introduced to the synopsis of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ and we have to dramatize one scene of the text on Wednesday. It was rather hard to read the scripts as there were many archaic words of the 17th Century. We then proceeded to the ‘Arts & Drama Room’ to rehearse the skit. After that, we ended the school programme for the day and proceeded back to the coach. It took another hour before we reached the city. Then, we went to check into another hotel for the next part of our stay in Melbourne.

We went shopping and then moved on to Chilipadi for dinner. The food at Chilipadi tasted good! We cleared almost every dish except the Cinnamon Beef as there were two dishes of beef and we even had to order another bowl of rice!

Feeling very contented, we went back to the hotel and took an hour rest. Then, we went down to the lobby for our daily debrief by our 3 teachers and went back to our room to work on our Travel Log. Today’s task is to focus on writing an original poem inspired by a setting that has captivated us especially after 2 days of sight-seeing.

We hope to make more friends at St. Leonard’s College and exchange ideas and learn more about their lifestyle and culture.

Written by: Hwee Hwa and Hui Fang