Orientation Week

It's Orientation Week. 

One of the my personal favourite week in NAFA. Firstly, I get to meet the freshmen. Secondly, I get to work with other NAFA students from different departments. Lastly, the crazy and messy fun that I know I will have. 

First day of Orientation already, you could tell who has the potential to be a real leader and knows how to take charge of the whole situation. As much as I'm happy that Johan and Lae are the Chairman and Vice-Chairman for this year's batch of Orientation Leaders, I could tell that leadership doesn't come easily to them. Lim Hui and me were more than happy to help them along the way and I literally make sure that nobody tried to overstep their boundaries. Johan and Lae are not the type of people to get angry, so I literally became their own personal screamer. For goodness sake, I love to scream just for the sake of screaming. Well, I had fun screaming at the Orientation Leaders and Freshmen.

Three days of Orientation and I know who I could work with and who I really don't want to work with at all. For the most part, I had a blast working with all the OLs except for one. Thankfully, he's my junior so I don't really have to worry about him and I get to put him in his place every time he tried to take lead on matters that are not of his concern. Overall, I had a really good time and I'm so looking forward to doing it again next year. 

Friday and Saturday was Freshmen Camp. Lim Hui and me did it for the first NAFA Freshmen Camp and we know how firsthand how crazy and hectic it was behind the scenes. To do it again this year was just really crazy but as usual, we actually did it and at times, I'm really impressed that we were able to even survived it at all. Same like last year, we have our mini Amazing Race, the only different is that last year, it was all over Bugis while this time round, it's just at NAFA Campus 1 and all the freshmen are being blindfolded except for one in each group. I was in-charge of the Cheerleading Station where the freshmen have five minutes to come up with a 30 seconds cheerleading routine. I swear, it was freaking hilarious seeing them trying to come up and perform their cheerleading. It was ridiculously hilarious that I couldn't stop laughing at most of them. One thing that I was truly impressed was that most of them were actually into the race and were quite energetic through out the whole camp.

I couldn't be bothered to go for the Freshmen Party, I never did go since my freshmen year until now, my final year. And I also couldn't be bothered to sleepover at NAFA so I just came back the next morning. It was quite funny to see most of the OLs walking around like zombies because of their lack of sleep while there I was all fresh and hyper. Most of them wanted to slap me for being too hyper at 8 in the morning but who cares. Before the camp was dismissed, it was nice to have a department bonding session with the freshmen. I was able to tell them what to expect when they are in NAFA, the good things and the bad things. It was really nice. As usual, after the end of NAFA Orientation Week, I would always have a bittersweet moment with them. I'm so looking forward to doing next year's NAFA Open House and Orientation Week again.

On to another topic, this week's Iftar is seriously crazy but I'm so thankful for the people that I get to break fast with. I managed to break fast with the usual group of OLs at Jilani, our normal hangout spot. I get to break fast with Musfirah, Hakimmah and Mehreen since we were in the middle of our Chestnuts Production Meeting. It was awkward but we still need to break our fast no matter what. I'm so happy that we will have our Annual Cuzzie Wuzzies' Iftar at grandma's house with all the relatives and followed by our trip to Bazaar Geylang for snacks. I'm so thankful to Khairul for actually inviting Ayiz & Q to join us for Dolls' Iftar as a surprise. At first, I honestly thought that I might be awkward around them, but it felt like nothing did change at all. I admit that I'm no longer close to them but it felt really good to meet them and catch up with them. I'm so grateful to Khairul for the surprise. And Alif was also able to make it for the iftar which was very nice of him. It's weird but it felt really nice to have them there and it felt right in some ways. I really don't know how to explain it but it felt comfortable. Syukur Alhamdulillah for the Iftar.

Now it's time to start planning for our Dolls' Annual Hari Raya Outing which will happened on Khairul's birthday. It's a two-in-one celebration. Truth be told, I really don't mind going ice-skating in our Baju Kurungs just as Khairul requested. 

I'm looking forward to starting school, this coming week. InsyaAllah, I will be a full-time study freak and really work even harder for my grades.

Overall, I had loads of fun this past week and I'm just grateful for everything. Syukur Alhamdulillah.