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6A'03 Class Gathering
28.12.2007
Friday.
I woke up feeling unwell and promptly went back to sleep even though I had set the alarm early for me to get up. I slept for about an hour more before waking up feeling a whole lot better.
It was the day of our 6A’03 class gathering. As I made my way there on bus, I was contemplating to myself, did I feel unwell because I had a foreign pathogen in my body or was it all in my mind? I mean, who wouldn’t feel scared and awkward? It had been 2 years, no, 4 years that I had met some of my primary school friends.
I walked into the air-conditioned room where there were two set of tables that were separated by the food in the middle. One was where all the girls sat and one where all the boys sat. I grinned to myself. The gender division yet again. I guess some things take a while to change or maybe never change.
Meeting my primary school classmates was at the end of it all, a joy. It was nice to see many of them grow up and feel proud that they are much taller than me now. Yes, you guys caught up with me or grew even taller, congratulations. No matter, some of you did not change at all, but most importantly is what sort of person you had become. Well, I managed to click with every single one of you still and that made me happy.
We headed back to H.I.P.S after lunch and met up with some of our teachers. I was surprised my form teacher still remembered me after so long. That was nice. Maybe I did leave an impression after all, or maybe I just looked the same. Anyways, it was nostalgic and sad while speaking to them, feeling how much we had missed the teachers, school and having lessons together.
Then I though to myself, would I feel the same way about VS? I smacked myself mentally in my mind, of course I would. What with the new school term starting in 2 days and all, who wouldn’t feel that way?
Well, I’ll leave that “look back” bit to me for a while, this post doesn’t need such emotions just yet. Class gatherings are meant to be happy and bright occasions not dark and depressing.
I would like to shout out to all the organisers for putting in the hard work to get most of us back together on that day. We had a ball of a time. You guys did a good job planning and inviting the lot of us. Thank you!
6A’03 class gathering… shall we meet in another year or 2 years?
Well let’s just find out how the following year would have in store for us then.
Till then, I wish all of you all the best.
Hail Mary.