Let’s Start From The End

March 26 - Lit Finals.

The room was small, hot and full unlike the coolest classroom in CTC where we held (most) of our English and Lit classes during the second semester. The test was hard and it blew my brains into smithereens. Some blockmates finished early, REALLY early. Some of them were stuck staring blankly on the test questionnaire and trying to figure how to answer question number 3. Two hours went by so fast and suddenly I realized that the room is almost half-empty. Some of my blockmates  were no longer there. No goodbyes, no goodlucks no “see you around’s.” Kinda sad if you think about it. Hey! Two sems together is not something to be neglected. It’s actually pretty big considering that those two sems were the first two sems of college life. So R49 was no more without proper “acknowledgements.” But based on the two sems that I was part of R49, I realized that that is how we roll! (How we rolled)

R49 is a weird class (weird in a cool way). Each person in the class never really knew everyone in the class, but the class was always united when it came to cramming, 5-minute preparations for a 15-minute presentation, hating that one teacher who never taught anything, laughing at each other’s kasabawan and bla bla bla. The class was unique: from having and not having Jun as part of the class to being transferred to a different classroom and being assigned back the old and cold classroom, everyday was different in R49.

I also met friends here (yehey for me!)! I remembered how shy I was when I first asked Sam for a piece of paper when we had our  first Lit 13 quiz or how hesitant I was to laugh at Nicko’s jokes during the first sem or how I always thought that Christine would kick my ass if I bumped her chair and many more scenarios. Who would have thought that I would be comfortable enough to show my true self (the loud-mouth, super hyper, brutal me) to them? Who would have thought that I would tease Christine and Sam to their own respective love interests? HMMMM.

No farewells after two sems? Hmmm.. Who said this is goodbye anyway? We’ll be seeing each other still. And I hope that we would be able to use the things we learned (En11 - still waiting, Lit 13- Short Story Analysis, En12- WRITING! Lit 14 - Poetry Appreciation).

See you around

*Ma’m! Akala ko na post ko na ‘to, saved as draft lang pala :|. Nung March 29 ko pa po ’to pinost (sana lumubas ung date) Wah… sayang bonus.. oh well