Today we had flag day. Out of all the 3G people, only Shawn,Nick and I went for the morning shift. At first we were quite lost as we were supposed to meet at the "Round Box",but had no idea where it was. We tried asking the conductors but they,too, had no idea what it was let alone where it was. We tried searching for it by going out of the MRT station, walking around and calling the other classmates. But still it was of no use. Then, our good friend Nick had a suggestion. He suggested that we go ask for directions in the community centre nearby. That proved to be of great help as while we were walking there, we met another bunch of AHS students also going for flag day. They confirmed with us that the round box was in the CC. Nice one Nick!

However there was a long queue in the CC, therefore making us wait. Surprisingly,the queue was gone within 15 mins and we started our journey soon after.

At first we went to Novena, which was our designated location. Upon arriving,we went to have our breakfast,which took around an hour, before starting on our quest. At first we were all very lost on what to do even though it may have seemed easy. I think it was because our pride was at stake if we wanted to gather any money, and that caused us to waste much precious time. None of us wanted to start first, thinking that it was very "malu".
Thinking that it was a waste of time, we decided that we should go somewhere more familiar to have our flag day.In the end, we chose Serangoon. And to our amazement,Nick volunteered to get the ball rolling by showing us the right example of collecting money.

At Serangoon, mnay people were walking either to the MRT or interchange, which was only a few metres away from each other. When we turned to Nick for his example, he said he was joking. Lol, nice one Nick. Once again, we wasted time again, this time around 30 mins. After that did we den start to hav a little bit of courage to ask a few people. Which was really ONLY a few. Me 1, Shawn 2 and Nick 0.

After collecting money for a while, we decided it was time for a break. By then,all of us had collected a few cents each,with an exception to Shawn who recieved a 2 dollar note. We slacked for along time, all of us not interested in the flag day at all. But something changed our attitude towards it.

After that incident, we started lowering our pride and went to ask from whoever walked past us, unlike before, where we chose who we wanted to collect from. At first, when the people rejected us, there was a little bit of embarrasment inside us. But after being rejected a couple more times, we started feeling less malu and actually thought it was very fun and thrilling!No matter who it was, anyone who past us were asked to donate money, although not all gave.

Time flew very fast after that and soon it was 12.30, time to head back to Bradell. We were very sad as we still wanted to do more and that our bags were still quite empty. But still we headed back.On the way back, Nick said that he wanted to attend the afternoon shift too.As i too did not have enough of the fun,also decided to join the afternoon shift. But sadly, Shawn could not join us as he had something on at home. So, after he had returned the bag,we seperated but now with a new member-Leonard aka Choon Hwee.

-End of part one-