As usual the sun rises, I go to school. Lessons are being taught. This is my daily life on a Thursday in school...but all that changed in a midst of an engaging mathematics lesson.
A sudden “Woooooo!” to me burst into my mind. My calculations were being flung away. It was a few seconds later that my mind began to function and read the sound as the fire alarm. Quite a number of people were actually glad that it rang so the lesson would stop. I beg to differ. After learning that the fire was on the third floor, the class quickly lined up outside and proceeded to the field.
Students were perhaps more comfortable lining by class in the new two tone field. The sun was beating down on us. Everything was smooth and we were sent back to class in no time.
Mr. Chia’s countless reminders did not go to the drain; the school had done a great job by evacuating the school in only 18 minutes. It was an all time record since Mr. Chia came to
That is what made my Thursday extraordinary.
Signing off,
Gerard Ong
