It was in the morning during one of our semester break. Majority of my classmates were present and we were all ready for the activity in front of us. Our mentor, Mr Tan Chee Boon, was looking as sporty as ever including our whole class! Our instructor of the day was Mr William and there was a lady and she was taking our photographs. We were actually joining another class which was a Food Science class with their lady mentor.

The first activity was the 2 truths and 1 lie. Mr William explained the activity. In this activity, the person has to say 2 truths and 1 lie and the people around him or her has to guess which of the 3 sentences is the lie. Mr William said his 2 truths that he lived in Australia for more than 7 years and that he had a beautiful wife and 3 beautiful children. His like was that he is a marathon runner. Then it was the mentors turn to do it. Then the mentors had to choose one of their students to do it too. And guess what , my mentor chose me. So my two truths were that I am a hockey player and I was in military band and my lie was that I LOVE swimming. This is a lie as I hate swimming because I got phobia of drowning called Hobophobia.

Then the next activity was a blind fold activity where you partner up with someone and one will be blindfolded while the other partner will give the directions. I partner my friend, Zhareena and unfortunately, I was chosen to be blindfolded first. I have to admit it was really scary because you cannot see where you are going but Zhareena did a great job. The stairs were the most scary part because you do not know how many steps there are. Then it finally ended and we had a debrief. I was chosen to share how I felt and my poor partner had to come out with me to share her own experience. Through this activity I found out that I am not that good in directions. The rest of the students shared their own experiences.

Then the next activity was Prison Break where we had to be carried through the spider web at the adventure area. I knew I would be first to be carried through the highest and smallest part because I was the smallest there. Guess what my thoughts came true! Everyone looked at me first when the question arised of who to carry out first. So I got carried by the guys in my class and even my mentor. I was panicking as I was afraid of being crashed to the floor so you can see my panick-stricken face. Finally I went through the whole painful ordeal. My neck was in pain. Everyone was working together to bring each other across and we did it under 20 minutes. It was a hot day and I was so thirsty so we had a water break but the Malays could not drink as they were fasting.

Then we had another activity called the 3 year bus ride where we discussed what the reasons of a smooth and rough journey of our 3 years in Nanyang Polytechnic. It was meaningful and you can see the presentation skills of our peers. After that the mentors discussed their worries about copying. Then it was all over. We were exhausted yet happy of how the day went by.

Contributed by: Sandhya Devi (PS0802)

Posted up by: Tirza N (PS0701)

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