Hello Semester 3 :)

Would it go away if I don't acknowledge its presence?
Would it leave me alone, find someone else, disappear?

Two weeks of blissful oblivion, and now back to the awful reality that there is A LOT to do. And that there is A LOT I haven't done.
The reality hit for the first time when Ms Lauren was asking for volunteers to bring the juniors to their new apartment units. Juniors, seriously? We haven't even got our asses covered, and now there are juniors and we're gonna be seniors and our own seniors are leaving and this is all suddenly. so. sudden. OMG.

Yesterday the seniors were just planning our ice breaking session with actual ice and tomorrow we have to look out for the juniors' orientation. Honestly, I have no idea where did the time in between went.

This week was full of IB stuff. On one hand, the juniors (at least the MOE bursary kids, about 25 of em or so I've heard from Ms Lauren), came trooping past the glass doors of the college entrance for the first time, followed by parents, siblings, aunties, uncles and looking all nervously hopeful and a little excited.

Fresh new blood for sacrifice to the God of IB. (my thought lol) HAHA.

Nah I'm not trying to make everything sound worse than it is but seriously NO junior will ever, ever understand how hard it is to manage everything together until they have gone through a year. .__. Same goes for me, I knew it was gonna be tough, but despite all the warnings by superseniors and seniors, it was just so HARD to understand how difficult it was going to be at the beginning of the course.
(everything was QED then)

As I helped bring five new girls (and their families) to their new home where they would have to spend two stressful years, I couldn't help feeling sorry but proud at the same time. It's like they know they're gonna stress to the point of no return (well they don't yet but they do know it's gonna be stressful) but they're still going forward for it. :)

On the other hand, the seniors got their final results the same day the juniors moved in! From what I know,
Pass rate: 100%
Average points: 37.5 (out of 45)
Number of humans with 40 and above: 12 (out of 27)
One perfect 45.

Even if we put the 45 aside (which was Hannah btw, congrats that was an awesome feat!), the 11 other humans who got >40 were too cool for my brain to comprehend. It is inspiring. It proves to me that >40 is reachable, and 45 not impossible. I guess it gave me a new kind of motivation to march forward and aim for the stars.

It is not impossible. Even with the constant changing of teachers. Even with the high level of independence IB demands. Even with the never-ending assignments. Even with the never-enough time. (Even though I haven't done my holiday homework and tomorrow's first day of sem3 OMG k I'm gonna do it now)

One more year to go. There's not much time left, but there is still some time. I can do it. I just need that motivational push.
Let's hope that I can give the same kind of inspiration to the juniors next year this time HAHA.
Forward, IB comrades.