My Life as a High School Student

My life in high school contains the best and the worst things I have experienced in my entire life.

Obviously, my life is already full of disappointments, distresses, downfalls, failure, and a plentiful faux pas. Even so, I think that my stay in high school is just too short --it just began yesterday, and boy, it will end tomorrow!

Seriously, I cannot really imagine that I am about to end my high school years. I am a senior student now and am about to graduate. For no barefaced reason, I believe that being in high school is not too pleasing for me. Not in the sense that if given the chance to step on high school floors again, I would not do it. But I mean it the other way around, that is, if given the chance to step on high school floors again, I would do it --partially.

I have had many experiences since 2004, that fated year when I stepped on the high school building in Ateneo (La Purisima). I experienced a weird mishmash of emotions. I did not know if I felt happy, anguished, optimistic, reserved, pessimistic and so on. It was a real rollercoaster ride for me. I was left with questions, doubts and even the will to just seize living my high school life. So, by then, I settled with the idea that I just do a routine, yes, a routine. If I did a routine, that would really help me. It was just a matter of picking up a piece of paper from my godforbidden messy bag, a pen and put into writing the schedules I had in mind. So much for planning, I must say, but it was one way of finding out who I really was. I was someone who decided to grow and learn --not everybody can stick to their schedules and eventually making them routines! By making a schedule, I learned how to be firm, decisive, and a better person. I can also say that I have achieved good grades during my first year. So much of the past, perhaps.

After my first fated year in high school followed a apocryphal yet significant event in my life. I never imagined that there will be resectionings! To be honest, I already loved my classmates during my first year in high school, but hey, it was time for a change, wasn't it? I cannot help, but accept the fact that we needed to be resectioned. There were many pros and cons during that time, and we were all trying to adjust on a new environment. By environment, I mean new classmates and another step towards reaching a diploma. The pros and cons I experienced were quite a number, but if I total them all, they would not even reach my age at that time --thirteen!

I would dare not to recount those pros and cons since they do not matter to me now anyway. Just like most teens my age say about their abhored experiences, "past is past".

The transferring of the high school campus in Tumaga-Lunzuran came when I was in third year. For all the years I have spent in my life in the Ateneo, I never thought that this plan of relocation would actually happen. That was way weird. There have been plans of relocation for both grade school and high school campuses since my brother was a kindergarten! It sure took time for the school itself to relocate, not to mention that it is only the high school that relocated. I am so grateful to Fr. Kreutz and his predecessors for making this possible. They all worked so hard just to achieve this. So, that. I can't add anymore.

For my fourth year, I do not really know what to say since I just began my senior year. It has been quite difficult adjusting to my new life now because I am entering school and going home without a father. Phew. That's so sad.