Sweat dripping, bodies jumping, mouths screaming, hands raising, hearts racing for Jesus! It was an honor to attend this conference with over 14,000 youth that will change the campus and change the world!
{ A P R I L }
i. I am officially a Thomasian!! 🐯 It’s so difficult to find blockmates but I luckily found some through the Freshie group in FB! So far, I find myself enjoying my path because in the group with over 4,000+ freshmen, it feels like everyone have known each other for a really long time plus with older students welcoming us wholeheartedly and answering queries for us. I also finally met 2 online friends who’ll be studying in UST too!
ii. Celebrated my cousin’s graduation by having an overnight swim at a resort near our area. It was nice spending time with my second cousins again + college talks with my schoolmate slash cousin!
iii. Summer 2015 is another staycation for me so what I did the whole month is under a lazy routine of flicking through the television channels and wasting time searching for books to read.
iv. When I received my schedule my parents were finally convinced that I should not be a part of Team Commuters so I’m going to be living in a dorm for my whole college life. We visited the dorm last Sunday and well, I’m half scared and half excited for total independency!
Today’s quest includes going to UST so early to apply for scholarship which only lasted about 30 minutes but we had to wait for my dad to finish his exam for this company he’s applying into. We ended up staying in the uni for 4 hours with nothing to do anymore so yep, we just ate. And ate. And ate!
I saw two alumnis from my school which involved me walking with a scowl because of the scorching heat and my nagging mom when I heard someone yelled “Abby!” and the other with me staring into space with an earphone lazily plugged in my right ear when someone yelled my name again. Those two were my older sister’s classmates and they were so nice to notice me and probably thinking “sino ba ‘tong dugyot na to” loljk. I also saw my cousin but this time I was the one who called her name lol and met her uncle who is not my uncle, I think? He works in the labs of the uni and it was our first meeting but he made jokes already! Such an easygoing guy.
And because I went to UST in a school day, I was able to see the uniforms from the different colleges and gah, I love the PE Uniform lol. College feels just got more intense!
PS. To those who have read this post before, I no longer find Ariel’s 7.50 commercial as mabenta so I deleted it lol sorry for being corny :-(
Today marks the day I finished the last set of exams I will ever take in high school! And man, it was no piece of cake. We won’t have any more classes next week but we still have to go to school for our clearance and other graduating prompts. D-22 ‘til graduation!
My first heartbreak, UPCAT, finally showed up and explained to me what has become of us (cue: Urbandub - The Fight Is Over.mp3). My gosh all I can say is wtf sorry for the word pero ang bobo ko naman sa Math! 13%??? Aba matinde someone bring me back to Grade 1!! And also my Reading Compre mygahd but it’s fine considering the words were already swimming in my head during that time. My percentage in Science is already okay for me tbh since I didn’t know much.
I’m giving myself a pat (one lang talaga) in the back because I’m allowed to take recon or appeal in UP Manila (can’t in UPLB because of the humiliating 38 and 13%) and indeed when I saw my UPG I was so excited but then all of a sudden I just decided to pursue my college endeavors in UST. Partially because UPM doesn’t offer my course (which is, BS Food Tech) and because I actually came to love UST when I took the entrance exam and passed it, and maybe, just maybe, because like in the game of patintero, feeling ko saling kitkit ako.
But I need not to sulk over my dream school anymore, for I know that the Lord has prepared something greater for me in UST.
My mood is always wavering—one moment I’m so skittish to blog about how happy and stable I am with everything then I’m like nah the next because I’m crumbling to the pieces of sadness and mess that is my life.
I have finally updated the January month of my planner which was really relaxing! The (low quality) photo includes the notes I took during our Retreat where we were labeled as the “worst batch ever” lmao but whatever we have our own trip and we have our own fun; we’re the best batch ever in our own world!
One word I could describe my state right now is subtle. Things have become smooth after I passed my defense (of which I left out a big sigh of relief as I walked out the defense room like I just breathed out all the strain and pressure that was stuck inside of me for a really long time and it felt really good).
But not as smooth as I thought it’d be. The exams will be my one last push in high school and I want it to be worth it. I don’t want to hear myself asking the question “What if?” after graduation. And also I’m stuck between not wanting to leave high school because of my friends but also squirming to go to college to meet new friends and discover more in life. Which is why, I think, I’m so emotional today. Or it’s just the exams getting in my nerves aahhhccckk.