Friday, July 6, 2007
I didn't get to quit French. Anyway, today was NYGH funfair! It was like the coolest day of my life in Nanyang! Every class got to do a booth at the funfair! We did nachos 'n' cheese! And cookies. I dunno how well we did cuz I was mostly out playing XP. Anyway, we went to a haunted house.
Well, I think it was set up by Class 3/2. Anyway. It's like this classroom, then they paste up boards and mostly newspapers to cover the windows and prevent anybody from peeking in. When it was our turn, we stood outside the open classroom door, pushing and pushing, fighting to be the second, third, fourth or last to go in. Finally Adelle's friend went in first and then everybody squeezed and jostled after her because the seniors had warned us not to be the last because the people grabbed your foot from the back. Anyway in the jostle, I managed to get second last. My dear friends in front pushed and pushed back desperately until I hit the classroom door where the door and the wall met. Then I was, like, "Wall?" And when I turned around I found out I was last! I panicked and squeezed and elbowed to try and squeeze into the second or third lot and they squeezed together and I couldn't squeeze in at all. They laughed as they squeezed so that I couldn't sneak in and because the first person didn't want to step very far, I was pushed against the classroom door and it opened slightly. The people in front pushed again and I knocked against the classroom door, opening it wider. Then I saw Adelle and Yangjie standing outside. "Come back in!" I shouted. And the others shouted too so finally they came in. But. I was still last. Geez. Anyway the strange fortuneteller person who was sitting by the door started speaking something about "destiny" and handed us a parcel. Ruthanne took it and we set off hesitatingly. We had hardly moved two steps when everybody in front started screaming and I didn't know why because I wasn't next to the desks yet. Then as I walked past scanning the ground nervously as well as the desks which had been wrapped up with garbage bag paper. I looked just in time to see a hand reaching out from under the tables and touch my ankle. Well. It just felt like a touch. It wasn't scary, maybe because I had expected something already. We carried on walking. Suddenly someone wearing a ridiculous Mexican hat jumped out in front of the queue and started screaming and shouting. Adelle screamed at her. Then she screamed back. Then Adelle screamed at her again.
The guide got bored and told us to move on and she stayed behind. There was this tunnel thingy. Everyone started to crouch down and they crept in so SO slowly. Three people occupied the tunnel at one time, and there was five of us, but I crouched down anyway, just in case there was someone hiding under the desks to touch us again. And I saw feet. Barefooted dirty feet. And a white dress. With only a desk separating. She was pacing up and down. I prodded Adelle and pointed. Adelle looked at her, then me. Then she grinned in a sort of silly way and told the people in front but they were too noisy to listen. Suddenly the person in the front screamed. Anyway, just then, the 'ghost' lay down on the floor, quickly, not like sitting down slowly then lying back. She did it quickly. Anyway, then she turned her head and looked at me, her eyes staring. I did a sort of weird grin and scrambled halfway into the tunnel. The person wearing the mexican hat was looking at us, or rather me because I was last, and I squeezed in as much as possible, leaving only my shoes outside. I didn't like to think of people staring at me when I wasn't looking. Anyway, I was kind of expecting someone to grab me in the tunnel or something, but there was nothing.
Then when I came out of the tunnel (after a VERY LONG TIME), for some reason I looked up and saw a hand. It touched me as I went out. There seemed to be a traffic jam in front as my friends clogged up the passageway, shouting and screaming and scrabbling around at the desks. And I was stuck there with the 'ghostie' stroking my back. LOL! And my neck I think. I looked at her properly. She had her hair covering her face and one hand was dangling over the edge - the hand which was stroking me now? Anyway everyone was sitting on the table and they edged off and I moved forwards. I saw why. There was a person lying down under the back table and it seemed that she was grabbing their legs. Anyway I dunno why I did it but I squatted down and told the person, "Can you don't touch my leg?" Yes yes - it's not proper english. I went past kind of expecting her to but she didn't, thankfully. Anyway there was a next space and I kind of sat on the table because there was a ghost with a torchlight shining red light clipped on her shirt and she chased the four unlucky people in front and I just watched them. She didn't realise that I was there. My friends disappeared around the corner and I followed them, squeezing past the 'ghost'. It appeared there were some boxes and we climbed over them. I was kind of dreading what I would see next, because I knew that barefooted ghost was there. She was still lying down. As we walked over her legs, relieved that she didn't like suddenly stand up, When Adelle was crossing over, she suddenly sat up, before I had crossed. She stood up and held out her hands stiffly in front of her, walking after the four unlucky people in front. I was like standing behind her and for the fun of it I held out my hands too. It seemed that (as Adelle told me later) I had appeared from behind the ghost. I donno. Anyway they rushed over this side and the 'ghost' went after them. I felt kinda left out. Because I didn't see why they were so scared and why I wasn't included inside, being pursued by the ghost. Anyway a person with a long long fringe appeared behind her wearing red, holding... a mirror I think, and she just stood there. Then Sheena poked the white ghost at the waist. I think she wasn't afraid of tickles, because she didn't laugh or jerk and she just went straight after Sheena. Sheena screamed and someone tripped over something and there was a human domino. In the front Adelle's friend fell on to the ghost and the ghost fell down too. Only the red ghost and I stood and somehow when we were scrambling to the door, Sheena tripped over again and sprawled on the floor and with my sadistic nature appearing, I suddenly found the whole haunted house thingy extremely funny and I started laughing. My stomach hurt and I couldn't breathe properly. Everyone emerged with silly and relieved grins and I emerged last as a laughing maniac. Anyway. We went to dye our hair. Nono! Only some sort of hair spray and it was only a pink streak. It'd wash off after I washed my hair. It's still on now. Yes I haven't bathed. O.o Anyway I hadn't really wanted to at first. i was just looking and wondering how much it cost. And then my Guzheng senior (Li Ting, also my piano teacher's student) came over and said, "Claire! Must come and dye your hair! It's very nice! You see that girl over there? She can do French braids very skilfully. French braids are very pretty. Come and do larh!" And I was like "Erm. Um. Eh." And I decided to put a pink streak. Li Ting's classmate came over and helped me do it. She told me to take off my rubberband, then when I had, she hurriedly said that there was no need, but she let me take it off. It seemed that she sprayed a lot, because when I put on my rubberband again they said my hair looked barbie doll pink..
