My Chinese New Year

Yesterday, the 12th of February 2010, was the day Hwa Chong Institution had its Chinese New Year celebration. Before the celebration, we were all encouraged to go back to our alma maters to visit our teachers and thank them for guiding us through six hard years of education, which culminated with the primary school leaving examination.
So, each and every pupil reported to school as usual on Friday. Then, after the usual morning stuff like singing the national anthem, all of us headed over to Kah Kee Hall for the start of the Chinese New Year concert. It was quite enjoyable, with performances from the teachers, chinese orchestra, wushu team and many others. I particularly enjoyed the performance by the wushu team, with all the whirling and twirling of their weapons, it truly was a sight to behold! Then after the performances, there was prize-giving for the best lantern competition and the best-decorated class for Chinese New Year. I wasn't expecting my class to win anything, but there was still a feeling of disappointment that we didn't win anything.
We were released at 9.30 am, when the concert ended. I met up with my primary school friends outside the hall, and we made our way together to the bus-stop. And since we were now in secondary 2, we naturally would have juniors from our old school in Hwa Chong. So, we also went back together with them. There, we boarded the bus which would take us back to our school. Along the way, we caught up with each others' lives and discussed about what we were going to do later in the day.
In the blink of an eye, we arrived at the school compound. Seeing as the side-gate was not locked, we made our way in. Then, we realised that classes were still ongoing, so we went to the soccer court and had a game of football to while away the time.
At around 11 am, we stopped playing and headed over to the canteen. Ther, I met my primary 6 math teacher. She had taught most, if not all, of us in the group, and we talked about the good old times. Suddenly, a security guard came over and told us we had to leave.
We had to leave?! Why did we have to leave when we were in our old school and we had come back for Chinese New Year? I saw absolutely no sense in his request, and I believe that most of the people with me felt the same way. Then, I began to think that we were actually not supposed to be inside when they were still having lessons, and that we could come back in after school had ended. So, I consented to leave the school. However, as we were making our way out, we were dropped another bombshell by the security guard. He said that we could not come back in, and the only time the school would allow us to do so was during teachers day.
What was this madness?! We could not even thank our teachers for everything they have done for us? We were all unhappy with the school's stand, but we could do nothing.So we just had to call our teachers out and meet with them outside the school.
So, all in all, Friday the twelfth wasn't the best return to my alma mater for me. Thank you all for reading this and I hope that you enjoyed it!