Bio Adventure!

HEy readers!

So today i went for a BIOLOGY ADVENTURE woo~!! My class and i took the magic public bus and went to explore the human body :DDD

Haha no.

We just went to the National Kidney Foundation for a Biology learning journey! This was actually very impromptu in a sense because i am not a Biology student. I only found out about this field trip today when a few of us non-bio kiddos stayed back in class during our free-period(a.k.a Biology). At first i didn't pay attention to what the teacher was saying regarding the trip until i realised everybody else in my class was either

a. Going for CCA
b. Going for the field trip

after school. And me being autophobic, thought of tagging along. Two people in my class were absent anyway, why not fill in the already-paid-for-vacancies and go for some fun?

A few of my friends accompanied me to ask Miss Lee(a bio teacher) if i could follow them and she was like "why not".

Once we reached the NKF building we were led into a lecture hall whereby a spokesperson told us about what NKF did and also the struggle many patients have to go through...aaand a whole load of biological terms that i really did not sign up for. Oh and also everybody kept asking me if i could understand anything bio-related and i-

FACT: KIDNEY FAILURE PATIENTS HAVE TO GO FOR THEIR DIALYSIS TREATMENT 3 TIMES A WEEK FOR 4 HOURS. THATS A TOTAL OF 12 HOURS OF SITTING DOWN WITH 2 HUGE NEEDLES STUCK INTO YOUR HAND.
NOT. VERY. FUN.

For some odd reason, i couldn't stop thinking about Hazel Grace from The Fault In Our Stars. Imagining her walking around day to day with a huge machine with tubes connecting her insides to it. Having sex with Augustus Waters with dangling tubes all over the place(:P). So with my feels from reading TFIOS and all the information about kidney failure patients combined, i sorta learned about the daily struggle that people like that have to go through, and also a new perspective of the whole TFIOS book. Because the entire time i was reading it, i pictured her walking about like a normal, ordinary person, but now the picture of her in my head has changed. And so has Augustus Waters, him being diagnosed with cancer just when his relationship with Hazel Grace was deepening. It makes me view the book so much more differently and also made it a whole lot more meaningful and touching than it already was, the way those two still managed to fall in love and do so many crazy things despite their condition, its epic i tell ya.

This trip was fun and all but i felt like i took away some seriously deep lessons from it. Oh and i also learnt [credits: 401'14 people] that Matthew Lim is probably one of the best chem teachers ever with his jokes lmao.

Also my class is coming up with a ViA to help raise funds for the Children's Cancer Foundation! So do come over and support us when 404'14 starts selling the stuff! I sincerely wish these cancer-stricken children all the best and to let them know that despite the cancer that stains them, you can still live life to the fullest and that we've got their backs!

Remember, its all for a greater cause!

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves"
-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar