March 1, 2008
10:08 PM
The school exists for its students
Interesting Founder's Day. So we get seats on the damp, fake grass. Fair enough. Parade starts, 5 minutes into it and a few drops appear. 5 more minutes and poof, instant rain! While we huddle together under tiny umbrellas, the parade stalls completely. After a while, the rain starts getting somewhat lighter. The MC, by no fault on her account, reads something like this: "Seeing as the weather has improved, we will now resume the parade. Meanwhile, let's give a round of applause to the teachers braving the rain out on the astroturf." Uh oh! Two problems here. One, we're still standing out in the rain. After going through watery hell, you tell us to continue enduring the rest of the parade? Not smart. Two, at that time, pretty much all of the teachers were already nice and dry under shelter. Yep, you guessed it. That meant that it was only us and the parade contingents left under the rain. Then this teacher patrols the entire length of the field, telling all of us to sit down. On the soaked, fake grass. Eventually the rain gets too heavy and we get evacuated out. Using a mathematical formula, we can now see that PeopleUnderRain = (Us + ParadeContingents) - Us = ParadeContingents. They proceeded on with the whole parade under the rain.. whoever should be pitied the most, it should be them.
Not forgetting ourselves, what do we get after countless moles of H2O? A voice that tells us to kindly proceed to the auditorium for the presentation ceremony.