Senior High School Experiences

People say high school is the most memorable phase in every teenager’s life. In this stage you will be able to meet new people and experience new things. Which I certainly agree with. My life as a high school student particularly as a senior high school student, was one of the most unforgettable phase in my life. It was at this phase I was able to build and rebuild connection with exceptional individuals.

There are some whom I had already known for a year and more. Since they were either my neighbor, elementary classmates or junior high school classmates. While there are some whom I had no single idea on their personal identity yet. Nonetheless at the end of the day no matter how diverse all our personalities may seem, we are able to find a connection. That had lead us towards creating many good and memorable experiences. Just like the followings below.

1. Studying together

Studying alone is fine, however studying with a group is much better. In Senior High School I was able to experience studying in a group. We often do it when a quiz, periodical exam or an oral recitation is fast approaching. Sometimes we exchange notes and we study it together. From time to time we ask each other questions regarding on the lesson being studied. In order to determine if we are able to familiarize and understand the content of the lesson. Afterwards when it is almost time and we will be having the said quiz, periodical exam or oral recitation. We would do a very swift recap of all the notes that we had studied together.

2. Eating together

You see I personally believe that it was the food that had bring us all together. Since all of us live far away from school. Therefore it is a wise decision to bring packed lunch and ate it at school to save money. Some of us only brings rice, then we would buy viand and water down stairs. But then again since our building is far from the canteen, and we are personally lazy to go down. We would often ask a friend to buy us food and water instead.

By the time we would be eating, we would share our food to each other. In this way we have a variety of viand to choose from. However by the time our schedule became tighter, our subject teacher often dismiss class past lunch time. Therefore there are no available food in the canteen by that time. Thus we either buy streamed siomai downstairs. However there was even a moment when even the steamed siomai run out of stock, thus we ended up eating rice with chocolate powder and bananas. But still it was a good meal, I must say.

3. Chatting

Chatting with them is always the highlight of my day. We always have a wide variation of topics we could discuss always. Which I believe the reason why we never run out of things to talk about. We talked about our childhood memories, our past mistakes, love stories, terrifying experiences, our downfalls and success. We even talked about the events that recently happened to us. There are also times we would just joke around, talking utterly nonsense stuffs. Which would always make us run out of breath and made us head back laughing.

4. Walking together going home

By the time our last class would end. We would go out together. We then would walk from our school to an open basketball court in Villa Trinitas Phase 2. Which is I believe approximately 900 meters away from our school. As we arrived at that place. We would stay there and watch our male classmates as they play basketball. While we eat street food such as mango with bagoong, barbeque, fries and shake. Then we would leave by the time we are done eating and go home.

5. Sleeping

By noon time, when we have a vacant time after lunch our classroom would turn into a sleeping area. Each one of us would look for a good spot to doze for a couple of minutes. We often sleep while laying our head at the top of an arm chair while we are sitting. While some of us would joined two arm chairs together, then they would lay down to sleep. I even find it amusing sometimes, how we are able to sleep in those awkward positions.

6. Performancing

It is one of the activities within the classroom that I am most excited of. For when we are doing this task even though it is for academic purpose, I always feel entertained and I would laugh like there is no tomorrow. Especially when we would throw funny punchlines and would make fun of ourselves for the sake of this task.

7. Learning a new skill

It was in Senior High School I was able to learn how to make a PowerPoint presentation. To be honest I have no single idea how to make a PowerPoint presentation. However through a help a classmate, I was able to do so. By now if I would try to rate my skills in making a PowerPoint presentation I can say that I am somewhat proficient.

In addition it was also in Senior High School, I was able to learn how to play the guitar. You see I had two classmates who always bring a guitar at school. Thus we often sing along as they play the guitar. That is how I got inspired to learn how to play the said instrument. Thankfully, those two classmates of mine taught me well and now I am proud that I could play at least three songs from a guitar.

8. Hanging out at a classmate’s house

We often hangout at a classmates house after class. We would stay at a classmate’s house to connect to their WIFI, watch a movie, play games or just stay there to kill time. Whenever we stay at a classmate’s house each and every one of us would contribute a specific amount of money. In order for us to buy a sachet of orange juice powder, raw eggs and pancit canton. Which we will be cooking and eating at our classmate’s house.

9. Going on outings

When I was in Senior High School me and my classmates would plan to go on an outing once or twice every school year. We would always go to a swimming resort for our outings. Since we enjoy swimming the most, even though most of us are bad at it. We would eat, drink, swim and have fun in the resort all day. Then we will go home by dusk.

10. Graduating together

Graduation day was one of my most memorable memory with my friends. It was at this very special day that all our hardships and endeavors had finally been paid off by the fruit of our sweet success. Seeing the happy faces of my friends and classmates as they share their success with their family. Makes my heart leapt big time. It was also at this day that I had made my parents very proud as well. For I had given them a wonderful gift coming from my academic endeavors throughout my years as a senior high school student.

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