Sunshine and smiles, hivers! I'm back again for the last blog for this week. For today's blog, I'm going to share with you my friends from elementary to college. Let's get started!
Our friends are present during our journey from being a baby until we grow up. They are the ones who also witness how we grow and how we learn new things. From my elementary journey, these are my friends who made my elementary life memorable and fun. Some of my friends from my elementary days were very bully, which makes me insecure and traumatized. But these girls that you see in the picture are my precious friends that made me feel comfort and also helped me achieve my goals in life. And sadly, we don't have any communication now since we parted ways when we graduated.
When I started high school, I shifted from another school, which is a Catholic school, again. This journey being studied at Catholic school is the bad decision that my parents made. I got bullied nonstop, not emotionally but physically bullied from my classmates. As you can see in the picture, these are my true friends from when I was in high school. They are the ones who also help me to ignore and to push away those bullies from me. They even help me in academics, and also they made my journey here in my school a little bit fun. For now, I still have connections with them since we had a group chat, but I never get a chance to go to their galas or when we scheduled for fine dining since I don't want to. A part of me wanted to cut them off because of the trauma that I felt, and part of me wanted to reconnect with them because without them, maybe my journey in my early high school life was hellish.
Because I was bullied in that school, I and my parents decided to enroll me in a public school with my brother. That was the first time that I went to a public school because ever since, my parents enrolled me in a private school. My second high school life in a public school was so great! At first, I was being culture shocked because the life in private school and the life in public school are different. Back when I was in private school, some students there kept bragging about where they traveled and how their parents bought luxury for them. Even on a normal day, they even bring one pack of chocolates that they can share with us. They don't even bring fried fish, dried fish, or rice corn in lunch. When I got to public school, that's when I saw my classmate didn't have a lunch; some of them had only a dried fish as their meal. I was also culture shocked by how teachers teach in public school. In private school, the teacher was mandated to teach students hands-on, while in public school, some teachers don't teach us; they just give us some tasks, or sometimes they don't want to go to class to teach us.
As you can see in the pictures, these are my friends from my high school days. They made me feel special, and also they made my high school life so memorable and very fun! The jam and the cutting classes that I experience with them were truly core memories for me. I find my comfort zone from them because they made me feel loved and important.
As you can see in the picture, this is Sylvette. She was my best friend when I was in grade 9. She was the first person who approached me when I transferred to public school. She was very friendly, and maybe I got from her the idea of being talkative. She loves dancing and singing, so I'm being a camerawoman to her whenever she dances.
These are some of my friends from when I was in grade 10; they also made the journey into a memorable one and so much fun! Even some of my friends in grade 9 are not my classmates anymore; we still catch up and visit their rooms often. Even their other friends are also being friends with us.
Even in making projects, even if we are not classmates anymore, we still do this together at some of the houses of our friends. We do that because we want to have a bonding and also to catch up on some gossip around the campus haha.
I miss hanging out with them on the seafront while we chill and eat some fried eggs there and keep gossiping. As you can see in that picture, I remembered that we hung out at the seafront, and we just kept chatting and joking around. Hapal took a picture of us on that day, and she didn't even have a chance to join in the picture.
When the pandemic started, that was the last time that we saw each other because at that time, all of us were being locked down. When my 18th birthday happens, my group of friends from grade 10 went to my birthday surprisingly. I didn't know that they would come because their parents didn't want them to come to our house because of the virus. They made my birthday special even though we celebrated it inside of the house. And I'm sorry for those friends of mine that I didn't invite to my debut party because of the virus.
When I was in senior high school, I didn't have many friends in my era because we only did the class online, and also, we were just reconnecting again with my friends in high school. The only friend that I've been friends with and also my classmate is Fhaneza. Fhaneza is my best friend since high school until we are in senior high school. As you can see in the pictures, we took a picture when we graduated in senior high school. Both of us are with honors. I was thankful that she was my classmate because during my senior year of high school, it was so hard to answer all the modules because the teachers didn't teach us even online. I was thankful to her because she was the one who helped me, and also we helped each other when the module was too hard to answer.
Today, this is my group of friends in college. As you read my previous blogs, they are the ones I've been with. They were the reason why my college journey was fun and joyful. I was thankful that I didn't have the same experience that I felt from my elementary life and first high school life because that was the worst journey that I experienced, and even now, I still hold the trauma that I experienced.
And that's the end of my blog, Hivers! This journey of mine is like a roller coaster ride. Sometimes it went down, and sometimes it went up. I was thankful that these friends of mine helped me to experience the best journey that helped shape me into who I am today. Because of them, I have plenty of realizations and learnings that I got whenever I hung out with them. These people are behind my core memories that I've been keeping forever.
Thank you for reading my blog! And see you in my next blog post! Ciao!