Most of us would agree that the days we spent in high school were certainly the best days of our lives. Memorable ones I suggest. It was in high school that we made our grown-up friends, competed to excel, hoped for places in the sports team, toiled to lead in the student council, and yielded to take part in the school organ. It was also in high school when we first felt and experienced to love – puppy love as people say. Thus, it is indeed in this chapter that we learnt lessons about life; that what lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. And it is inevitable that we encounter obstacles along the way, from which we learn to fight and to be strong.
Good evening everyone! Welcome as I take you back in time since we first stepped out into the world of high school as freshmen here in SJIT, our dear Alma Mater. This moment is very surreal and dreamlike. Yet the realization that Graduation Day is just creeping closer and closer is like clouds looming ahead in an overcast day.
So I’ll introduce myself, Messiere Mellorin… your tour guide as we travel down Memory Lane, where we explore our batch’s reminiscing treasure trove of experiences.
Our first tourist spot is the island of Greenland. It has 435,987 square inches of land sprawling right smack in the first part of the Josephian Chain of Islands, surrounded by the Academic Sea. Here, a million freshmen are accommodated for them to overlook the other adjacent islands.
Anxiety filled the air as freshmen wandered during the opening classes in Saint Joseph Institute of Technology BE Department. All of whom were thinking who their adviser, teachers and classmates may be. And as the school bell rang, every freshman began to walk hurriedly along the school grounds to finally reach their destination – their new home.
Everyone leapt unto their respective classrooms, and as they found themselves seats to sink in, murmurings started to conquer the place. Then