April came, and one first challenge came in front of me: The Kool Adventure Camp sponsored by RAFI. It is a camp attended by corporate businessmen, professionals, or students especially student leaders. For the first time the UPHS students attended the 3-day camp and including myself, we walked into an adventure we never thought we would do, but we also never thought we would never forget.
Ropes course! Wall climbing! Standing at the top of a shaking pole! Walking on wires! Oh, such very grievous sight if you don’t accomplish these three things, it’s just frustrating. But you know what, I would be very proud of saying that I climbed the wall successfully and I walked on that wire with patience! As for that pole, I climbed the last step but I never managed to stand at the top of it and reach the other rope, but at least I reached the top, at least I attempted to succeed, at least I TRIED!!! In life, failure is never essential. The effort to continue and the difficulty of that pursuit make life worth living. Lesson number 4: The fact of dying makes us live more. The fact of losing somebody makes us need and want that somebody more. The fact that we live in a life with rules, makes us want to rebel more. What I am trying to say here is that, not all negatives cause destruction. Somehow, they are our motivation to survive in this world. Rebelling is not a heinous crime it’s just that we are attacking certain principles that are accepted as true and a default in the society. I may be rebellious in this article but the thing is that I’m just trying to say what I observe.
May came in and we had our first dose of what is in store for us in the senior year. We attended a Calculus crash course conducted by our very own Sir Basadre (Math teacher) and his very smart assistants, some selected senior students! Unfortunately, I became part of Section A. I was shocked, surprised and astonished. I was partly embarrassed, but hello? What’s the big deal? And on we continued with the tutorials and finished it just by the end of May. Whooo, I smell June coming. I smell class and work; put them together, ONE SCHOOL YEAR… again! But it was not a sad welcoming. It was in fact the lightest entering of the school year that occurred to me. But why?
Yes. I was quite anticipating and looking forward to this new term. It is because this will be our last year. The Senior students of a high school really become sentimental (at least for our part) when we talk about the topic of graduation. I am excited to graduate but in a way, very sad. I know after graduation I won’t be able to spend so much time with the people I have found myself with (my batch mates!) compared to those days where they were just a hand away! I am happy, because at least, it would be a way of forgetting things that need to be forgotten, things I consider as (hmm, how do I say this? Yes, let’s just call them) mistakes! Let’s just stop talking about these ‘mistakes’. Lesson number 5: Mistakes are not necessarily with the person’s consent. Most of the time, the person doesn’t like what he/she did also. With that, lets’ try to understand everybody, forgive, but not forget. Let’s not condemn, embarrass or make fun of anybody, we have our own skin to think of, MIND YOUR OWN FEELINGS! (Go Mae Ann! Peace best friend!).
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