Annual Cross Country

9 April, 2010.
Its Chong Boon Secondary's Annual Cross Country! There were no lessons and all Chongboonites were to report at Macritchie Reservoir.

All of us assembled at the huge tree and waited for the teachers to take our attendance. After we sang the National Anthem, my class and the Secondary 2 pupils went to Lim Bo Seng's tomb. Miss Sasi briefly explained to us how Lim Bo Seng's contributions to Singapore was deeply remembered by the new generations.

I did not take part in the competition but shortly after, my category, the Lower Secondary girls, began to run. It was kind of relaxing at the first moment when my friend, Roushyuan and I ran. But after running quite a distance, I began to pant. Thus, we walked briskly.

Halfway through the race, I was really thirsty and I was glad that there was a teacher stationed at one point with a water bottle. Thankfully, the female teacher offered to let me have a sip. Roushyuan and I then continued to run, but I was getting really tired. We stopped alot of times and walk because of me!

I felt like a burden to Roushyuan as she would have completed the race sooner if she didn't run with me. I apologized to her umpteen times but she said she didn't mind. I was grateful for that, as running alone in the forest would be rather lonely and scary.

When we were reaching the ending point, down the slope, Roushyuan and I ran at our fastest speed no matter how tired we were. It was just a kind of feeling then encouraged us to speed up and end the race. The feeling was good!

After we ended the race, we went to buy drinks. Awhile later, it was the prize presentation! I was glad and happy for my classmates and some of them got to the top 10 like Visnu, whom was first and Jenarth, tenth.

After this year's cross country, it inspired me to have the "never say die" attitude.
This year's cross country was fun! :)