Reminiscing the Past

Reminiscing the Past (Looking Back and Dreaming)
When I was in high school, I have met certain people I could never forget. They were amazing that I have to laugh or at least smile all by myself when I remember them. High school… I’m sure will never be that a lot of fun without them, especially you know, that I attended Saint Mary’s Academy, a private Christian high school. There’s a Reverend, nuns and of course, old maids who are super scary. But we are normal… like others, we were treated as normal as possible. We have school programs like Nutrition month, Intramurals, Prom night, Foundation and Family day, and Christmas Program. Thing is, we were much more exciting because we have additional occasions like the Rosary month, Assumption day, Mama Mary’s birthday, Our Lady of Concepcion day and we have novenas in the Cathedral every Wednesday. I love my high school because that’s where I felt real God’s presence in my life. Anyway, going back, I met certain people in there too that made my life so much cool.
First, I was friends with our Valedictorian. Oh, sweet. Charmaine’s not like the other brainy lads who doesn’t care to have fun. She’s actually a great friend who likes to hang out and go window shopping after lunch. She smiles a lot and even though other years doesn’t really impressed by her, she always believes in herself and definitely graduated with flying colors… oh… on graduation day… I am sorry my friend if you were able to read this but I can’t forget what happened to you. On graduation day… she fell down the stage while going down the stairs… hihi!
There’s Jonelfe… Of all, I have this love – hate relationship to her. One day we’re friends and just share secrets together. Then next day, we are war already. I have a big crush to her cousin whom I never met personally because he was in States. She just brings pictures of him. Haha! I even went to their house once just to watch a video of him on a wedding… She is a good actress, impersonator and a dancer though she stands only 4 feet ten inches… Isn’t it?
Then there’s Myra, a Roswell and N’Sync fan. He has a huge crush on Justin Timberlake as well as to Devon Sawa. She was the biggest among us, though she’d lost fats this time around. Their house is our favorite hang – out. There we watched movies and pig out foods prepared by her family. It was amazing we never turned as big as her… hehe! Ops… Like me, she also has the same passion on writing. She is pretty good… but I’m better, hmm…
Jeanette is next, like Jonelfe, she’s a good actress too. She won an award in a Declamation contest because of my declamation piece. I wrote the piece for her to perform and even the costume, we did it together. She is funny too. Actually, Jonelfe and she were so much alike. It’s just that she’s darker in complexion and her hair’s a little kinky… hoho! Small but terrible. I love her laughed.
Jo – Ann… the Mrs. Nick Carter (I was called Mrs. Aaron Carter)… What can I say about her? Oh her family owns a food place so like Myra, she eats a lot too. She’s next to Myra when it comes to body size. She laughs at small things and mind you, very loud like… Wahahahaha! You know when she started laughing it would be very difficult for her to stop already. Emergency! Because it’s like she’ll going to lose her breath… it’s pretty alarming. She’s the best in our group when it comes to math.
Sonny Rey, a guy… a gay… a girl. He’s into Joseph, one of the class’s Adonises. He, Julius and Arthur were good clowns in the room. When they combined their powers all together? Oh, everyone’s got bad stomachache after because of over laughing.
Then there’s also Armie, a boyish, yet still a good friend of mine. She was this one who calls me Mrs. Aaron Carter a lot. She was a big fan of Backstreet Boys. I think she has all the Cds, Vcds, poster and the like. She and Jennedy were former best friends (I think so) but there’s this one misunderstanding that made their friendship turned lame. I am not very sure but I thought they went back together on graduation day…
Anna Mae, a constant friend… She’s always there for me and she trusted me too much of her secrets. I knew sometimes she gets really mean but well, not to me, hehe! So I found that okay. I don’t remember any moment we argued about something or anything. She’s this friend of mine who looks up to me as not just a friend but a sister.
Jason is kind of different because even if he is friends with me, he belongs to another group. Anyway, still, we both shared a lot too back that time. He likes movies and Hollywood stars like I do. He is an actor and he’s mean too… haha! He’s frank and direct to the point when asked what he thinks about a person. He’s kind of scary when he comments… hihi! Beware!
Emma… she’s my idol. Hardworking, patient, kind, sweet, talented… our teachers often confused me with her. We have features that’s very the same. She changed her religion from Roman Catholis to Jehovah’s Witnesses which really surprised me when I found it out. From then on, when she talks, she talks with God’s love or anything that’s found in the bible. I was impressed by her but that still led me to questioning her new religion. We argued about it for a moment but eventually get over it. She made me realized that friendship got nothing to do with the religion, status in life and etc.
There’s Gracey, an active friend of mine who neglected unintentionally her studies because of extracurricular activities. She has charms that people liked. She attracts people that easy and she’s way too bubbly. I can say that it’s a regret because she used to top the class (Charmaine’s rival actually). But even though she didn’t graduate with an honor, she have received a lot of awards on the other hand which was kind something to be proud of as well.
Most, the person I will never forget in high school is my English teacher who discovered my talent on writing. Ma’am Czarina Roberonta. I remember the first time she read my poem composition out loud in front of the class. An elegy poem entitled “A Place for Tomorrow”… she was kind of touched by it and made her eyes watery. Nothing fell down but the emotion came out. From that moment on, my career as a writer was discovered and won two awards on my senior year. I won second prized on a Math – Sci composition and an essay composition on Linggo ng Wika. I wasn’t able to make it to the school newspaper because I wasn’t able to attend the sorting out process but my writings continued. I have written declamation pieces, scripts for plays, poems and essays. It was overwhelming… people loved it and my friends want it.
I have the passion of writing actually since I was a child. But I concentrated music in elementary that is why it didn’t work out for me that time. High school helped me to acknowledge back that talent and until now, I’m enjoying it. If before, my greatest dream is to be on Broadway, now there’s greater dream I want to achieve. That is, to be able to publish the bestselling book of all times. I have started so many novels now, but I have had finished only one. The Charms Effect. ^^

Continuing the dream,
AeraH