I came, I saw, I logged out.

I've just spent my very last day, official day, in Anderson Junior College. It started out well. I was feeling happy and energetic from the caffeine+sugar combo I took with my breakfast. Vanilla Coke. Yeah, I had coke in the morning. There was some left over in the fridge and I thought, “what the hell” and took it out.

So, having drunk my magical elixir from the land of Refridgeradon, I went to school to receive more pleasant surprises. Rachel, it seems, prepared a little handwritten note for everyone in the class, as a farewell gift of sorts. I repeat, handwritten. She must have taken... hours... to get that done. A personalised message... Yeah, I'm going to frame it up in my room somewhere. Yes, it means that much to me. I've never gotten anything like this before. I'm touched.

So then, I felt sort of bad for not preparing anything. I actually did plan to do something, but I never really got around to it. So instead, I started grabbing papers from my maths notes and tutorials and folded them into little paper cranes. I ended up making extra thingies they called owls... Okay, owls. I have no idea-

There were chocolates being passed around, plenty of discussion on whether or not we should skip PE for the day. In the end, we found out that PE was cancelled. Maybe they knew that there was some mass conspiring going on throughout the J1s to skip PE today. Seriously, just moments after we came to a consensus to ditch class, another group of people walked right past us, discussing the exact same thing! Well, what can they expect, eh? No one wants to end their last day in school sweaty and exhausted.

So now that PE was out of the way, I could end my time in AJ perfectly. With a last session of KI! Oh, thank the heavens. I wouldn't trade a diamond mine for not having this. The discussion was sublime... After a nuclear holocaust, ten people remain alive. They're all dysfunctional in one way or another. There's a fallout shelter that can house six people, and six people only. So we have to choose who lives, and who dies. Our little group of five argued to the last second, and during the presentation, Jeremy and I ended up forming another alliance. Which I soon tried to break off from. Goes to show how different people can be. But it was superb. Best KI session I've had. Pity it'll be my last.

I think I use too many pop-culture references. I remember one of the first discussions we had... I mentioned Captain Kirk and teleportation. Did you know that “teleportation” is not in the UK English Dictionary? And then I mentioned the Spartans during my eugenics presentation. And today... John Locke from Lost.

You know what's funny? When I came into AJ, I described it as dull. Prison-like. It wasn't fun. At least, not at first. But then, I slowly got to know people... It's amazing, really. I found an old classmate. I found friends in people I thought that I'd never talk to. I can only conclude that friendships... Happen. It's not something that you can plan or create(without the help of happy brain chemicals, anyway...). Getting to know people was hard for me. Knowing that I'm leaving them is even harder. The past week was just swell. Skipping lessons to play cards(gasp!)... Hanging around aimlessly. I'll miss everyone. Oh wait, correction. I already miss everyone. *Tear*

Well, goodbye 12/08. I once said that 4e1 was the best class I'd ever been in. Well, now it has a companion. This is farewell to everyone... Rachel, Joji, Jeremy, Daryl, Mark.... And to the KI circle. Hong Jie and the rest of them. I bid you, adieu.

For now.

-Joe