There are approximately two months more before we’ll become SENIORS: the role models, the leaders, and yes, the heir and heiresses of the throne which is rightfully ours. Wahahaha! Well, time’s really runs fast. It gives me a feeling of nostalgia. Sigh! I can still remember some fragments of my freshman year… when everything was fresh and new and I didn’t even know anybody except for the guidance counselors and my one and only schoolmate from elementary. I just want to share to you the drastic drama of entering high school that I experienced almost three years ago.
*On the first day of high school, all my classmates were total strangers. I hated the “introduce yourself” session. FYI: Everyone hated it.
*On the second day of high school, I was late. The class laughed at me because I didn’t know where the SPSO was.
*My mother would accompany me and fetch me from school. 
*I was culture-shocked that it took me almost the whole school year to become well-adjusted. People pray there more or less 16 times a day, most teachers were young and upbeat (our teachers in elementary were old and grumpy), the admittance slips, and multitudes more… amazed me.
*I was afraid in committing a mistake during recitation. It was like, “Okay, I’ll recite later.” Then, “later” would come and I’d feel unsure of my answer and I’d say “I’ll recite later” again. Again. And again. I was also shy in volunteering to join extra-curricular activities.
*I didn’t know what Newsette was until I finally had a copy of it.
*I detested some of the upperclassmen that whenever I would see their faces in the school publication, my stomach would churn and my face would burn up. Some of those older kids would “bully” us in small irritating/humiliating/terrifying doses. Arrrgh!!! Those human rights violators made me feel like a genuine underdog!!! But there was this senior guy whom I looked up as a role model. I would always say to myself, “When I’ll be in fourth year, I wanna be just like him.” XP
*When I topped our first long quiz in Speech about English sounds and their spelling (I’m lovin’ it!), like the /iy/ and /I/ for example, our Speech teacher flashed a wide grin at me! That made my day extra-”YIPPPPPEEEE!” I can still remember when he used to call me Ms. Suller (pronounced as /’Sal-er/ with a flair instead of /Sul-’yer/, which was the right one.) Haha!
*I had tried making my Business Math assignment inside the bus. I was deriving formulae and was using my calculator but my head seemed spinning. When I arrived at school, I felt like puking.
*I didn’t do 90% of our assignments in AP in the first two quarters practically because our teacher wasn’t checking them.
*During our Science class at 1:00 PM, the ambience was perfect for a cat nap: the warm afternoon temperature, the tedious discussions, and the boring lessons. There was a time when I could no longer keep my eyes open that I fell asleep, amazingly, with the proper sitting position of an awake person.
*Shhh… I had already tried doctoring our class financial statement. ^^
There were also many happy good times if you’re already concluding that all I experienced was double trouble. Whew. I realized that I had really grown-up. There are many things that changed in me since I was in first year especially in my attitude…like being more brave and postive than before.
One thing’s for sure: I’ll be making my senior year the BEST… EVER!!!
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