Greet the End of Recess Week (Lugg. 7)

It appears that I still have a weekend to enjoy my recess week, but I feel just like we’ve come to the end of it. Thinking about the fully arranged weekend with a lot of trivia, I no longer believe I’m on holidays. Before recess week, I had heard someone saying that a week is such short time that we feel it passing by quickly even when we have lessons, let alone the free holidays. Anyhow, the fact is recess week had gone with the wind.
Yesterday evening, I, with some mates, went out to play with two Singaporeans at Apollo Center, greeting the end of recess week in a wild and crazily cheerful manner. The irony was that the money I spent on this activity was borrowed from my friend because my money had run out. Long ago, I encountered a saying that borrowing money from mates is nearly inextricable for us SM3 students. I treated it as a joke at that time, boasting that it would never occur to me. However, I became the first person to borrow money to live on among students I know. What grief it was!
To tell the truth, I thought the money was well spent since we really enjoyed ourselves during those for hours. We played several games together, some that I’d never met before included. The most exciting one was a card game. There are 35 cards, 7 pieces for each of the 5 patterns. To begin with the game, 5 people shuffle the cards together and then everyone snatches 7 cards, whose patterns must be downward. After the preparation, we exchange cards with one another to get a hand of cards that have the same pattern. We must make sure that nobody else can see the pattern of the exchanging cards. The first to achieve this shout “Pit” and put his hand on the table, after which the other four quickly put their hands on the first hand. The one who shout pit use a plastic hammer to pound the hands, while people can draw back their hands just before the hammer falls down. We laughed and shouted, and were all busy snatching cards.
The pity was that I failed to sum up my courage to practice English with the two Singaporeans, which was what I determined to do. Anyway, I lost myself in that small delicate game room, greeting the end of recess week with laugher and scream.