I could think of a thousand reasons not to attend the reunion last August 29, 2009. My days are always busy with very important concerns in family, business and community, but my conscience tells me to go because this event may not repeat again (it is my prayer that is will but with a different but happy circumstance) so I canceled all my "other important" assignments and bought my ticket and went. And I am truly grateful that I did, the joy and happy feeling experienced cannot be expressed words and images but stick to your heart for the rest of your life.
High school was a transition and a formation, preparing you for something challenging and serious college and the real world. It was a time of firsts, (you know what were your firsts) a time of loving a lot of things (music, dancing, girls, etc.) , trying something new and many other energies we focused ourselves to. The memories of those years are still vivid and clear, from the banana cue to the many escapades and adventures taken in the course.
I am so grateful of the friendships that developed during those days which still continues and grows even today. Though we thread different paths in our life journeys we are connected by a common bond of experience nurtured in the four corners of our beloved high school alma mater.
The reunion reminded me that happiness and success is not measured in how much wealth you have or how accomplished you are in your profession but by the satisfaction of what you are today and how God and your past has molded you as a person.
The reunion will be etched eternally in my mind and heart and I already long for the next gathering/s, may it be joyful and fruitful as we extend beyond ourselves,beyond the boundaries of our homes and classmates to those whose needs we can fulfill.
May the Lord grant good health, wisdom, resources, graces and mercy to all of our batch mates, may we glorify Him in our efforts individually and as a group.
See you May 15, 2010.
Joel
High school was a transition and a formation, preparing you for something challenging and serious college and the real world. It was a time of firsts, (you know what were your firsts) a time of loving a lot of things (music, dancing, girls, etc.) , trying something new and many other energies we focused ourselves to. The memories of those years are still vivid and clear, from the banana cue to the many escapades and adventures taken in the course.
I am so grateful of the friendships that developed during those days which still continues and grows even today. Though we thread different paths in our life journeys we are connected by a common bond of experience nurtured in the four corners of our beloved high school alma mater.
The reunion reminded me that happiness and success is not measured in how much wealth you have or how accomplished you are in your profession but by the satisfaction of what you are today and how God and your past has molded you as a person.
The reunion will be etched eternally in my mind and heart and I already long for the next gathering/s, may it be joyful and fruitful as we extend beyond ourselves,beyond the boundaries of our homes and classmates to those whose needs we can fulfill.
May the Lord grant good health, wisdom, resources, graces and mercy to all of our batch mates, may we glorify Him in our efforts individually and as a group.
See you May 15, 2010.
Joel
1 comment:
Hi Joel!
Just read your comments and very impressed? How are you and your sister? I wished I stumbled into this site prior to the reunion. I would love to come home if I had known it earlier enough to make my travel plans. I am not so sure if your remember me. I was formerly Evangeline Dizon Pepico... Anabelle's cousin. Anyway, please let me know if there will be another reunion. I will definitely come and persuade Annabel to come too.
I am currently living in Los Angeles, CA. I have been in the states for the past 26 years. I went to Northwestern and completed to BS and one Masters. I have been currently with the feds. I am married and have three children.
Please share my contact numbers to all.
Evangeline(Vangie) Pepico Odeyemi
Odeyemi@att.net
(661) 964-8437 Cell
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