Reunion Upon Arrival

             It wasn't long after I came home back in June 24, 2002 that I decided to visit Gerard Alegrid in his home found on a block right next to ours. I still felt a bit jetlagged after more than a days worth of traveling halfway around the world and been out of the country for a year and 2 months.

         Right in front of their gate, I was calling Gerard's name. Thank heavens, he's at home (the new school year had already started that time but I was freshed out from finishing Grade 5 weeks earlier). He was startled to see me, just as how I was surprised to see him, with thick hair!

   He let me inside their house and get reacquainted. I found out he's in his final year in grade school attending Saint Mary Montessori, my now-former school of seven years. Many of our batchmates transferred to other schools like, St. Jude Academy-Malinta, Children of Mary Immaculate College, San Diego Parochial School, Notre Dame of Greater Manila, and the list goes on.

       I asked him if he still knows Angelique's phone number at home, I was really excited hearing her voice again. He does and dialled her number for me. trhough the phone, I let her know that I finally came home!
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     A few days later, I was in my room (then sharing with my brothers) doing nothing (because the house just went through a recent renovation). I heard someone calling out someone's name outside, but I didn't bother see who it is. But the name-calling continued.

   Not long, my dad called me from downstairs saying I have visitors waiting for me outside. So I finally took a good look on what was going on outside and saw a few familiar faces: Zack, Gerard, Mark, Michael, and Carlos.

            Ecstatic to see them after a long time. I went downstairs and was like "Oh! Napadito kayo! Ang tagal na, ha?!".  I couldn't say it in words but one way to describe it maybe is that I was speechless because I really can't believe that  my friends went all the way to my place so that they could hold a mini-reunion-slash-welcome home party for me!

   During the mini-reunion, I proposed an idea for all of us in our batch to hold a grand reunion of sorts but every attempt to do so was met with little success. The last one, during Allyson's debut, failed to attract batchmates including me.

But I still haven't gave up on the hope that this reunion would eventually push through. Even if it's been almost seven years after I left Montessori:D