high school memories
i was reading tony’s comment on our graduation in high school and what he remembers about it.
lets start it off by all writing about our 5 memorable moments in those 4 years.
1.
randy, gatch and i are given a one hour post by mr. lee (physical science teacher) in the first month of 1st year. reason? not observing the one minute bell rule$&*@^^)(^&$$!!
2.
the entire class during 2nd year gets a post courtesy of our biology teacher (i don’t recall her name). this time it is because she discovers that someone has decided to turn the outside area near the windows as their own personal trash dumping site. geesh! class post for littering. we sure looked silly standing there in front of the library
3.
samuel ochinang screaming at me one day for preferring to take notes rather than listen to him during his geometry lectures. i encountered him a few years later teaching in international school. he still looked the same.
4.
we decide to show our class unity by cutting class and attending some practice in gerard's house. as the school bus was entering gate 2, i went up the front of the bus and said i needed to get down. the driver didn’t even ask me why and just stopped. i then walked over to gerards house. there were about 30 or so of us, i think.
5.
we were grouped in sets of 7 or 8 and were required by eva buenaventura to make a presentation from one of the plays taken up in english class. after our presentations, we then get one of her lectures on not having any originality at all as all the groups presented the same piece from the same play (the famous line from that play..”shut up fool! you were never like this before.") it was a play about the army so all of us were wearing cat uniforms.
2 comments:
Your memory is starting to fail you, Bud.
Our 2nd year Biology teacher is the infamous Mrs. Alvarez, who I remember as pregnant during that time. One afternoon, I came home from school (or did I come from Ali Mall?)and my Mom was waiting for me and wanted to tear me apart.
She said that the Biology teacher asked her for money in exchange for giving me a passing grade. That was my first brush with corruption.
Here's a recurring scene in my memory:
The period bell rings signalling a break before the next subject. All smokers proceed to the Washroom. Bot Ravago pulls out a stick of Marlboro from his wallet. The cigarette is flat. He lights it up and takes a long drag filling up his lungs with smoke. He passes the stick to Vic Oreta who takes an equally long drag. Passes it back to Bot Ravago who takes a long puff up to the point that he's inhaling burnt cigarette filter already. The cigarette is consumed in less than 20 seconds. Bot and Vic take a piss and goes back to class feeling refreshed and ready for the next subject.
hi tony,
this memory lane was to get the 4d dudes to come up with posts of their own not just on the comments section. thats ok, i guess.
hmm....ms. alvarez tried to bribe your mom? that teacher must have learned a thing or two from the house and the senate.
:-)
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