my first 3 days in UP was just amazing. I assumed that on the first few weeks i will only be with my friends from masci, aby and sam but it didn't. Aside from them, i am with other girls. i never expected to have a new group of friends only on the first day.

UP opened last wednesday June 13, 2007 but it was just a whole day orientation (University orientation in the morning and college orientation in the afternoon). Well, some of the orientation's parts were entertaining but you really cant avoid to be sleepy in some parts because the air con works quite excellent in tempting us to sleep. what i looked forward to see was the intermission number of the UP manila indayog dance varcity. i wanted to see what kind of dances they do and if i could manage to follow their steps. fortunately, the dances were that of my interest. their music made me rock. their steps were of my forte. i just hope i would be accepted. i looked around, and i saw a lot of familiar faces... those of my previous school. it is because of this that the idea of entering a whole new world does not sound so scary. it seems quite a bit funny. it's as if UP is just an extension of our former school. it helps so much that i know a lot of people and i know the area. after the orientation almost all the mascians mutually decided to meet up right outside the entrance. there i saw my old friends. and also my old enemies. the world isn't balanced without them. anyway, we all decided to eat at the old robinsons but we were all shocked to see for the first time our dear rob fully packed with human beings. hahahha! for an hour we weren't able to find a place to eat cause all of the restaurants and fast food chain were packed, even the food court. so we settled in buying from plato wraps and bread talk. after that pauline, aby and i proceeded to the cph audi for the cph orientation. i assumed it would also be boring, but i went anyway to see my possible blockmates. when the orientation was done i was tensed for the next day. it would be the official start of the classes. first day of meeting the profs. and my first ever class in UP is PE1. unfortunately, aby and sam's pe is on mondays while mine is on thursdays. i was tensed because i have no one to be with on my first class. how sad. i tried to ask a few PH students if they belong to block 22 and if their PE is on thursday. Unfortunately, i found none. I was very tensed for the next day because one of the things I do not like is being alone. But i opened my mind and thought of it as a way to meet new friends.

Thursday came. I was alone. I walked the street of Pedro Gil hoping that I won't be late. I came to the place called SSWC and there were a lot of students already. i didn't know what to do because whenever i am alone my brain doesn't work well. i headed straight for the guard in charge and according to him our prof is still not around. so, for a while i panicked coz i dont know where or whom to go to while waiting. i scanned the faces standing in front of the building and luckily i saw one familiar one. it was nikko, the boy who was in front of me in all enrollment activities (from medical to enrollment to parent's confe to pshyc test to college orientation). i approached him assuming that he knows me too because we've greeted each other in every activity mentioned. Nikko was with a girl, Julliene. i greeted them as i approach and asked them what's the latest news on PE. We introduced ourselves and had a conversation. After a while a group of girls approached us. I figured they were our block mates coz one was familiar to me. If nikko was always infront of me in lines, Nhet was after me. Our group was a little bit larger. As usual, we introduced each other again. and i was Marnelli. ha! first we talked about PE, wondering what will happen and where could the prof be and if he will actually attend. Next was a big bee [wasp ata tawag dun e hehe!] that was lurking around us and made some girls freak out. they were all nice. they were all fun to be with. everyone was friendly. on that moment also we immediately exchanged cellphone numbers. then we all began to joke around kaagad. for freshmen on their first ever class, we were kind of noisy and wild. then we called people that we know are included in bsph. and we became larger. nhet and i were the noisiest and the wildest. we kidded around. on the other end of the bench we were sitting on were students that we think are also bsph. so nhet and i decided to approach them. YUp! they were also our block mates but we weren't able to convince them to join us on the other end because there were upper class men sitting in between our group and theirs. so nhet and i went back to our group. when we are deciding to leave because an our had passed already, a substitute came and oriented us. PE ended early and we have an hour before our next class. we have nothing much to do, and nowhere to go so we all went walking. just walking. but our fbc, ate rona, texted us to meet her at our kom rum. when we got there, i had a chance to talk to my other blockmates. there i got to talk to loren and ralph. hehe. a group of sophomores entered the room. we were tensed, thinking maybe we were in the wrong room. but they were the ones who left. then a teacher entered and said that our class were transferred to 304. so we transfered. we were a bit pissed because the room we went to was newly painted. it smelled awful. then after a while another teacher came and said our class was in GAB 304 not RH. ok. fine. lipat ulit. (pinaglalaruan ata kami). when we arrived at GAB 304, there was a class using it. the prof in that class adviced us to ask the OCR about our room. when we got there we found an fbc. thanks to her we found the list of new room assignments.. and guess what... our class was on GAB 306, the room with the guy who asked us if that was our room. hayyy.

we never came back to 306 due to exhaustion. we all decided to eat at rob. the upper class men of bsph were inviting us to eat with them. they were all kind and funny. i was glad they were warm to us freshmen. our next class was natsci and there we met the other half of the block. i was reunited with sam and abi so i sat with them, but still near with nhet and the other girls. sitting beside abi was jem, so i talked to him. at first he was a bit shy, but when we were teasing sam about a boy, his "pagka-kalog" came out. then i came back to my new friends and we hanged-out. we talked about our past love lifes. hehe. then we asked one of our guy block mate, JOseph, to join our circle. and then we interviewed him on his past love life. nagkwento naman xa. haha. that part of the day was so much fun. it made the idea of new life happy for me.

then our next class was math 17 but the prof still didn't come. instead, our fbc , ate rona, met us. she oriented us about the policies and activities in UP. we voted our blockhead (nikko), mr. and ms. freshie (joseph and monica).. pati pala ass. of the blockhead ('oble".. dave) the choosing of the mr. freshie was interesting. having only 7 boys in our block, we all decided to let them one by one face monica so we could see who has the most chemistry with her. and the winner was JOseph.

that was our last class. and we can go home already. my new friends (nhet, nina, loren, monica and myra) asked to meet tom morning so we could altogether go to the univ. lib to get our id's counter-signed. i felt happy! because even though it was only the first day, it felt as if we knew each other for a long time. we talk and kid around like long time friends. and i was very happy to have friends kagad on the first day.

on the third day, while i was on my way to UP, they texted me and asked where was I. i planned not to go to the library because i still have no 1x1 picture but they still remembered me. when i asked cno cno sila, i found out that all the girls i was able to hang out with on the first day was there. completo! pati si sam. on that moment i felt touched. it was an enigmatic feeling. i dont know how it all happened but we were kind of a "barkada" on the first day palang ng klase. cool kaya! i hope our friendship will last until we all graduate. hehehe.. the greatest part of the day was when we all hanged-out at the stairs of the cph bldg after classes because it was still early. we talked about a lot of things. i found out why we became friends so fast. truly, "birds with the same feather DO flock together". we have so much similarities: in personality, in experiences, in life. but above all, i am so glad i found them. Having them makes it easier to face the new life in UP. it makes me feel home and happy. i thank GOD na first day palang kasama ko na kaagad sila..

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