25 Random HIGH (high school life)

1. I met my husband in June 1989! We were seatmates in our agriculture class. Yes, I belong to the Jurassic era of agriculture instead of computers! (there are about five married couples borne out of our batch hehehe)

2. I like being in school early! I was the classroom San Pedro. I like the quiet... but that all changed in my senior year. Sige ra ko ka late! So I end up missing my first class, that's the punishment for being late! You miss a class and you become a slave around the campus picking up trash! [my future husband then would yell at me "Crisostomo, late na sad ka!? Hahahaha!!!"]

3. I was part of the school paper called Scholar's Voice... but we never really got that "voice" it was just like an exercise to practice writing. Imagine I was a news editor in FILIPINO! Noong unang panahon, marunong pa po ako... ngayon kumbaga datapwat...

4. My group mates and I went to DYHP to buy sound effects. Yes, we needed that for our radio drama of the Noli Me Tangere! Oh dear, the things we go through.

5. I was like a midget! Still is... I feel like a mini adult. I can't reach the top level of the lockers. Nyehehe! But I have to carry banana bracts or a huge typewriter to school! Bweset!

6. Investigatory projects were like the olympics! I remember making perfume out of ilangilang, a shampoo for dog fleas, antifungal ointment, mosquito repellant, etc. There was no photoshop to create presentations nor powerpoint, we had to type our reports! We had to cut out letters for our presentation boards!

7. I was never allowed to attend school parties, dances, even caroling... what a bummer!

8. "We don't call ourselves the best, we only happened to be..." asa ka ana? That was our batch hehehe!!!

9. Grems, Jessell, and I used to sneak out from from so called PEHM (Physical Education Health & Music) just to eat our lunch box at mid morning! Hahahah!!!

10. Most of my book reports were made by Lynette. I don't like reading! That was always the great excuse to stay overnight hehehe!!! And oh I do the drawings, don't know why I did that hahaha!

11. During our senior prom, I designed about five dresses hahaha! Nailad sila oy! I am still thinking what could have been if I pursued this passion... NAH!

12. I thought I was too mature for girls my age then or was I just a late bloomer? Ah basta, I couldn't relate to their "crushes" and whatnots. There were one too many "open forum" daw which somewhat feels like Jerry Springer high school version. That was a venue for catfights! Blah, I didn't like it!

13. During Math class, I'd go to the clinic and sleep.

14. World history with Mrs. Gopo gave me panic attacks. I used to volunteer to share what I've read and then go to the restroom afterwards because more often than not she'd tell me "Miss Crisostomo, read some more!"

15. I learned baking in Sci Hi! This passion for the kitchen... ah! Mrs. Solana... another story. But really, we would crack up when she says "ten oven, T I N bah!" it was mean for us to make fun of her.

16. The sayawit was another olympic like fest! I wish I have pictures to prove them... you dance, you sing, you act. All in the name of Linggo ng Wika.

17. I loved Biology so much! I thought I really wanted to become a doctor until we had to dissect a darn frog! That's it! Thank you!

18. High school was learning siatong and jackstones (coloray pa ta). I had so much fun I don't remember studying that much. Maybe I did, but I just remembered it was like play hehehe!

19. I was the CAT princess bwehehehe! Most of the officers were my friends... I have never joined a full Saturday formation. I was mostly excused to do office/paper works. I learned how to carry a wooden rifle under the shade, while the rest of the class had to soak themselves under the sun bwehehe! I don't know why they always thought I was too sick to do just that nyehehe =P

20. I learned to write poems in high school. I think all that teenager angst and neuroses are best expressed in crypts. Oh well, but who says I still don't have that angst and neuroses now? Hehehe! Some things are meant to stay forever hahaha!

21. We cleaned our classrooms! We took care of our gardens, etc. (Child labor!!!) I was once assigned to take care of the mayana rock garden (I still don't understand why we were asked to do so for our physics class!?) and Mr. Falcasantos (God bless his soul) would say "Ms. Crisostomo, the plants are bowing at me!"... back then I haven't figured out that I was born with a black thumb. I would have starved if my life depended on my 'crops'.

22. I always hated being part of the flag ceremony. I don't like to carry the flag, nor carry a rifle! Or be the one conducting the National Anthem! Why were we subject to all these?

23. I taught my future husband how to do 'telebabad', we often burn lines every after dinner time. There was no text or IMs nor facebook back then hehehe!

24. Ours was the most dramatic graduation ceremony my parents attended. My mother was a teacher for almost 40 years of her life and she still claims that my high school graduation was by far the most memorable. Kamo bay sige hilak "Goodbye to you.... another set of memories, goodbye!"

25. I made wonderful friends from Sci Hi, some I discovered way after high school but nonetheless they are treasures worth keeping!!! "A lifetime's not too long to live as friends!"