Something unusual happened a couple days ago.
I was just sitting in the amphi theatre, in my allocated front row spot, minding my own business when our P4 seniors came in told hold elections, and ask for nominations for the post of IT and Campus rep, which was vacant.
I kept quiet … then my groupmate said he would nominate me and I said, “Er… actually I want to run for the High-Tech Club…” but apparently that was not a good enough excuse!
However it wasn’t just one or two people who wanted me in. When our seniors came to the bullet point on IT and Campus rep and asked for nominations, about half the class shouted simultaneously, ‘VANESSA!” and after that, who could argue with the wishes of the majority? Stunned, slightly flattered and with some trepidation, I accepted the nomination. Also another one or two classmates volunteered to stand for elections too. Frankly I wouldn’t have minded if anyone else got this post. If I did I would aim to do a good job but not kill myself. I’m certainly not tech support (we have the IT department for that).
So the next day, voting results were announced to all via email and I won! So thank you everybody for this, erm, honour :P
Then we had an email from the Dean Jake Cohen asking to meet the new student council. “STUDENT COUNCIL!” I thought… then it all sunk in.
In University I had to campaign hard, make a speech and get grilled in front of 300 people.In Junior College I didn’t even try running for the students’ council because it was like a public parade. This time, the nomination and election was handed to me, almost on a platter.
If you hear me talking to fellow Singaporean classmates about this, you may hear the words ‘arrow’ and ‘saboh’ used often. For the sake of diplomacy I will not tell you what they mean - not yet ;-)
Anyway. I will soon find out exactly what an IT and Campus rep has to do, from our seniors and Dean… this will be an interesting revelation.
In the meantime, dear classmates, please don’t crash the mail server or set the school on fire.
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