Crescent

Speech day was just over and boy, was it an amazing experience, I haven't felt so at home since the last time I was back here. Entering the performing arts theatre felt like a dream - I still remember my first time being in there, during one of our rehearsals for the national band competition when I was in sec one. Back then, how foolish I was, how oblivious my thinking, I was only sec one, just starting out. How unaware I was, walking through those gates on my first day of school, not knowing what my four years in this place had in store for me, not knowing what a lucky child I was to be placed into Crescent. Days in Crescent are truly the best years of my life - yes, not my life thus far, but my life all together.

Being once again addressed as "my darling (ex)sec fours" by Mrs Tan, was a term of endearment I didn't realise I missed so much. No matter how amazing our principal is, she will never be like Mrs Tan. As I heard my form teacher deliver the citation for my classmate who was awarded Crescentian of the Year, I thought about the number of times I dozed off hearing him teach us social studies, but on that day, I treasured every word he uttered, for it was a familiar voice, a familiar memory that took me back to the good old times last year. Seeing my classmates, how I miss their faces, how I miss having school with them. We took countless photographs, treasuring every second we had with each other that day. There was a girl across the canteen, I wasn't sure if I have ever spoken to her while we were schooling here, but I knew her name, so I shouted and waved, because no matter who you are; in this place, you are my family.

It's already been 4 months into JC life.

4 months?!!????? how did that even happen????

And as much as I'm having fun and enjoying myself here, AC is no - and will never be - Crescent. I don't know how to begin explaining why it isn't so, and why it will never be so, and everyone would tell me to give AC a chance but the truth is - nowhere else feels the same way. Nowhere else makes me feel more like myself - where I can be myself, nowhere gives me the freedom to yell at the top of my lungs and not care about what others think. Nowhere else feels like home - Crescent is my home.