I am overwhelmed with incredibly euphoria and exhaustion!
I just got back from my classes and the Joint Installation of Interact Club and the award ceremony.
Today...is one HISTORICAL day for me and most of the girls from my school(especially the seniors interactors) We managed to grab hold of The Best Activity Award for our club and wow! When they announced that I was choked with PURE HAPPINESS!!!! Our International Understanding Day managed to get us a place for that award. As for Convent, its predicted that the best interactor award will be from that school, Jacinta Lopez(I hope I didn't get her name wrongly here) and they got an award for The Best Interact Club award too!
Well done girls!!
And I think they managed to get another award for The Best Activity Award. Among 7 schools which are my school, Raja Zarina, Convent Klang, ACS, High School, Klang Utama and lastly La Salle we managed to grab hold of one of the award given which is none other than The Best Interact Activity Award!
It was indeed a historical moment for the interactors from my school especially for those who are the committee of the club, we are so proud of our achievement. We started the club from stratch which means we DO NOT HAVE ANY FINANCIAL HELP from anybody and we do not have any experience in running such clubs(since its only installed in my school last year in September), we had incredibly annoying teachers who are against the club for some reason(racism) and girls who did not managed to get a place in the club after an interview spreading nasty rumours about the club and the commitee member and being prejudice about the members of the club(I am so darn sure that some of them will be reading this) and MOSTLY people who criticize us mercilessly for the effort we put in just to organize an awesome International Understanding Day(I know you are reading this*winks*) but despite of all the obstacles along our way to organise an event and patch the club with only 25 of us at first...we managed to do a great job out of it.
Yes, there were arguments among us but well...those arguments we had somehow managed to create a bond among us. And today..during the award ceremony and although there were only a handful of us who attended the award ceremony and Joint Installation of the club I realized that the members are getting closer to each other. The support given from the members mesmerized me when I look at them. If I am to close my eyes at the members who are..lets put is as...erm...inactive or problematic and look at the active members, I am glad that we managed to get a handful of dedicated members for the club. Members who respect each other instead of being power crazy and wanted to be the one who order people around, members who support each other in hard times and mostly members who learn from their mistakes from the past and do not hesitate to amend their mistakes instead of ignoring them.
Being in the club is an incredible experience(especially in the year 2007) when I still have time for most of the activities organized by the club.Besides attending the formal events organized by the ICC counsel and the club, I find my time are well occupied to serve the society. I retire officially as an interact member from my school together with the board members from the club and the Form 5's today. Though I do feel a lil frustrated over certain things when I was in the club, I managed to brush all my frustrations off by reminding myself frequently about my motive for joining the club which is to do something for the society and the school.
We did get people who do not appreciate our effort and putting the blame on us when things went wrong and some board even pick fights with us. And along my way as a member of the club I do face certain people who clearly have this attitude of I-am-the-boss-and-everything-I-say-is-always-right. Somehow, we managed to compose ourselves and do what we are supposed to do as a team.
To the upcoming board...the club is depended on you guys. I hope you guys will keep the club running and do not let history repeats!!!! Last time they shut down interact club since the members do not know how to bring themselves in public. Now its up to you to train the future leaders and mold responsible girls to keep the club running.
I went KEC for that Joint Installation straight after my class. We had rehearsal from 12pm till 2pm. As for my brother, he had to attend some leadership conference since he is appointed as one of the board members of the club. He was in KEC from 8am till 7.45pm. The performances was entertaining but I find some rather ear piercing and annoying. I was deeply irritated by some barbarians who do not know how to behave in such formal events, yelling like nobody business. With my head pounding like mad, I somehow found myself annoyed with their barbaric behaviour. At one point, Chew Hong and I had to close our ears to protect our eardrums from bursting! They are worse than the animals I can get to see in the zoo and I think monkeys are so much well behaved compared to them. Even the noisiest animals in the world can't be compared with those horrifying uncivilized creatures! Most of us(including people who were in that event) was super annoyed with their uncivilized character.
I have a coughing fit since last night. I did not get to sleep well last night due to my extremely bad flu and coughing fit. And I was coughing non stop since yesterday. So much for laughing at my brother for having a sore throat, flu and cough the other day. I am now down with a terrible flu, a coughing fit, a slight fever and slight sore throat. Urrgh!!! I am practically half dead when I reached home at 8pm just now. Imagined having to spend my whole day from 8am in the morning till 8pm in the evening!!! I saw Pei Ling today!!!*grin*
I didn't expect myself to type so much tonight. With my head pounding I can only describe certain things in this post. I shall go and have a good rest now and photographs will be posted later! And I really really hope to meet most of ex senior prefects in the prefectorial buffet next month!
One more thing...the club taught me how to be patient and also help me to control my temper when I have to face certain people. Besides gaining a string of valuable experience from the events I attended since last year when the club is first installed, the club also widens my taughts about a lot of things.
