Change, the only constant

When returning to an old place such as your alma mater, most people get a nostalgic feeling that slowly wears off with time spent there.
I, on the other hand, had it the other way round. The first few days of my return back to RI was marked with deep anxiety and apprehension as I prepared to walk unprepared into a class of people I have never met nor dreamt i would meet. Lab sessions had to be prepared, certain topics had to be revised, lessons had to be planned. And so the first few days passed in a flurry of activity that did not allow time for my previous post mentioned thoughts to settle down.

Those thoughts have still not settled down yet, but now that the flow of teaching has been started, the anxiety that numbed my mind has now given way to a new clarity that allows me to view my surroundings in greater detail and thought.

Same old school, but with new surroundings, being viewed from a different perspective, viewed in a different time frame. We've only left RI for 5 years and RJC for 3 years, but the changes to the school are so great it feels like i've left for 10 years. Management of the school, running of the school, all the way to the physical aspects of the school have been almost thoroughly changed. Listing the changes here would take forever. You guys have to see it and experience it for yourselves. I'll upload a few pictures of the school(jc side) soon(hopefully together with my US pics and maybe my taiwan pics too), and you guys can see for youself just SOME(not all) of the physical changes. I cannot capture all the changes. Every corner you turn, something has changed(and is still changing).

So why do i have photos of RJC(or rather RI, the jc side, as what it's called now)? I decided to walk there! haha since it was
1. so near
2. rjc open house(13th jan)
3. a good opportunity to meet and catch up with former teachers, which i've already done for the RI side.
And so i found ms june tan, who somehow still remembers most(if not all) of us. Tried to look for mr francis chong and mr paul cheong but both were in a meeting. The rest are not around anymore(or so i think). So i spent some time taking in the amazing changes to rj, as well as catching up with random friends i found around school who've gone back for the open house too.
Anyway, i found mr paul cheong today(14th jan). He's still full of rubbish. and rj's staff room is super duper huge.

So for those of you who have yet to visit the school after all this while, do go back and take a look(and be amazed like me). The bridge connecting the new RI block(raja block) and rjc is gone, so walk by the first floor. yup. That's all for now! Gotta rush off for advanced physics lesson. 2 hrs.(knn since when was there 2 hr straight lessons in our time?) Will be posting more stuff(regarding US and school) soon, so dun worry sc!

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