Senior Class Lock In

 

By Kris Chong

 

The one-and-only senior class “lock-in” was held on the afternoon of Friday, October 23rd. All of us had the privilege to skip our afternoon classes, and we gathered in the vintage chapel for the lock-in.

With Covid cases on the rise in Malaysia, the Ministry of Education had decided to stop all extracurricular activities. Naturally, we have temporally lost the privilege to go off campus for lunch, and there will not be any intramurals for now.

We had a class meeting on Tuesday, October 6th. The class committee announced that for our class, there would be two significant activities coming up in the next two months (October and November), the former being the lock-in, and the latter being Senior Sneak. The lock-in was chosen to be held on the Friday after fall break.

During the class meeting, Jimin Park (12) told us further information about the lock-in We were all excited because our class is the first class to do this in years, since Dalat decided to ban lock-ins, but we were lucky enough to get to do it. We were all anticipating an all-night “class party” because the lock-in was supposed to go from Friday after school until Saturday morning.

I was asking Palmer Ford (12) during the class meeting what he would do during the lock-in, and he said to me, “I will play games on my PS4 and not go to sleep until 6 am.” Looks like people were bringing their game consoles for the lock-in!

Two weeks hal passed since the meeting and looking at the daily Covid statistics, our hope of having a full Lock-in was getting smaller. Once the Ministry of Education changed their minds, we were disappointed by the fact that the MOE cancelled all after-school activities.

No worries though! Mr. Brian Brewster came to the rescue and told our class we could still do a lock-in on Friday afternoon, though not all night, and we still had a blast. Team activities like murder in the dark, breakout boxes, and popping balloons with a plunger was the highlight. We went from doing indoor activities to having a water balloon fight outside the dorm building.

After all, even if this lock-in was not what we expected, we still had the chance to get together as a class and had lots of fun. All that I wish now is for Covid cases in Malaysia to gradually drop, because who knows what our senior sneak experience is going to be. We, as a class, have to cherish the time that we have together because in six months we will all part our ways. In light of Covid 19, we will have to try our best to be together as a class. Cheers!