Reunions

This showed on my Memories app on Facebook today. Can’t believe these were taken fifteen years ago, the last high school reunion I attended two years after my chemotherapy.

Though I am not really active in attending the subsequent grand reunions every three years, I still get in touch with some of them through Facebook. Almost half of my classmates are now living abroad in different countries.  You guess it right, we were all girls. Boys sections were separate, they had afternoon classes while we had ours in the morning. Separate entrance and exits…haha. I blogged about our high school life before  but haven’t touched on our annual presentation before we graduated.

It is a sort of legacy from the previous batches and we followed a month before we graduated. Long days of preparations for a two-hour presentation of the graduating class (mixed boys and girls). We have brainstormed about the title but we could not think of an apt one so we agreed on Walang Pamagat meaning there is no name or title for it. It was a parody of most television shows back in the seventies.  We imitated several programs and turned them into laughable episodes. Yay, my batchmates were great actors and actresses. Some were even gifted in singing. I was on the production side of the program. It was our goodbye presentation to our beloved University of Santo Tomas Education High School.

It was a success and several years later,two batches named theirs Walang Pamagat 2 and Walang Pamagat 3. I enjoyed my high school life more than the years I spent  in college. We never had reunions like we had in high school except for  general reunions of different colleges in the university. I never get to see college friends and classmates for several years. One of my best friends was ninang (godmother) to Josef and another classmate was also an officemate at the Bank of the Philippine Islands where I worked for almost 22 years.

There is this song by one of our gifted Filipino singers Sharon Cuneta about high school life, I love the melody. Here’s a part of the lyrics in mixed English and Tagalog. It defines how high school life was.

🎶🎵High school life, oh, my high school life
Every memory, kay ganda
High school days, oh, my high school days
Are exciting, kay saya

There are times, may problema ka
Kung ang homework, left undone
Pray ka lang, huwag tawagin ka
Upang ‘di pagtawanan

High school love, my one high school love
Not infatuation or crush
Tunay ‘to, siya ang buhay ko
‘Di niya alam, ako’y nagba-blush

Bakit nga ba ang first love ko
Ay ‘di serious, so it seems?
Kung alam lang ng first love ko
He is always in my dreams.🎵🎶

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