Excuse the High School Musical 2 reference: I just missed it a lot. Anyway, after eight exhausting weeks of our school's summer acceleration program, we SHSians are finally free to enjoy the three weeks of 'summer vacation' we have before school starts. [deep sighs] Oh and fun fact: I was supposed to post this yesterday, but since I was stuck in the nine-hour horrifying experience that was falling in line for One Direction's concert in Manila, I had to postpone it. (I'll be posting a blog about the experience soon, hehe.)
From March 25th to May 22nd, while most Filipinos our age were busy being the poster boys/girls of teenage unproductivity, I, along with all other SHSians, was constantly dumped with insane piles of schoolwork that were enough to send my brain into spontaneous combustion. I honestly wasn't able to retain any of the lessons taught due to the fast pacing of the teachers, but at least we all learned that lessons meant for a whole school year can never be compressed into just eight weeks. Seriously, ARP was mentally draining and physically exhausting for students and teachers alike.
But although I am full-on rejoicing and jumping like a monkey on the loose (sorry, SHS: ily), I am also quite sad by the fact that I'll be parting ways with my classmates of nearly a year. Let's admit it, the criteria for a good school year is 30% extracurricular activites (club meetings, field trips, fair and intrams) and 70% being with the right classmates. These girls have made academics bearable, and shown me that just because I'm an only child doesn't mean I'm bound to live the rest of my life without siblings to call my own. In one way or another, all of them have been my sisters and I am extremely privileged to have that kind of opportunity.
So for the rest of this blog, please enjoy these awkward and quite rushed photos that I took during the last afternoon of our summer classes.
And now that my summer has officially started, I promise to be more active in blogging than I was, so I'm already working on a couple of other blog posts. Follow my Twitter: @angxlmartinez, and my Instagram: @5secondsofangel for updates (and other random junk about me and my life).
xx Angel
xx Angel