Memories

The school year 2006-2007 is about to end. Also, our time here as fourth year students is about to end.

It is now almost four years of struggling here in high school. Indeed, time flies very fast. It seems to me that everything that happened in the past is just like yesterday.
I do not know why, but whenever I think about my life in UP High and how time flies fast, I remember myself sitting in my chair in Villamor, watching the drizzle outside while tapping my “not working ball pen” against my LN (lecture notebook) in Earth Science. I can remember also that I was somehow glad that my pen was not working so that I can have the reason not to write. I can also remember the first time I slept while there was class. It was also in first year in Math subject. I finished my seatwork earlier than my classmates, so I busied myself making figures on the ceiling. Unfortunately, I fell asleep and I was waked up by my seat mate. All my classmates were laughing at me and someone told me that our teacher made fun of me when I was asleep. I can also remember the puddings that we ate when we were in first year. That pudding of our Home Tech teacher made our stomach “twitch” and it feels like everyone who ate the pudding wanted to go to the comfort room, only we were shy. That same teacher also forced six of our boys to dance for an invocation of an event. She blackmailed us by saying that we would have low grades in Physical education if we would not join the dance. Afraid of a low grade, we gave in to her demand and dance as “aetas.”

When we were in second year, the most terrible thing that happened to me was when our Algebra teacher scolded me for sleeping in classes. That really scared me. Another thing to remember was the science jingle contest. Our presentation was very horrible and we lost on that contest. In second year, we were also tagged as the worst section.

When we were in third year, the highlight was the “Kwentuhan” where each third year section presents a mini play. We had some internal problems within our section but it was solved and even resulted to unity. We lost on that contest but what mattered to me was that we were able to show our unity even when the time was running out.

ABAKADA, drama fest in theater arts, intramurals, drama fest in Filipino, and retreat were some of my highlights in my last year here in UP. We won awards in the ABAKADA (play where we enact a part of Rizal’s El Filibusterismo). I was the best actor (although there were three of us who were hailed as best actor, scores showed that it was me who got the highest score)in the Drama fest in Theater arts subject.. We won champion in the two games that I played and the seniors were the over-all champion of Intramurals ’06. We also harvested awards on the Drama Fest in Filipino. We had a successful retreat at Saint John mission last March 24-25, 2007.

There are so many things to cherish in our high school life. If given a chance, I will re-live my high school life to enjoy again and experience again things that I remember.