Two and a Half Months of Bliss

        A warm August morning it was when our school year began in twenty-second of August. The sun’s golden radiance shone over us as I entered the school gates. The anthemic sounds of anticipation seemed to get louder in every footstep I take. The cup that is my heart is overflowing with joy as I inch near towards our classroom. Every footstep I took seemed to be, “one giant leap for mankind,” as Armstrong famously said. 🚀

        As I set foot on the recently waxed wooden floor of our classroom, I greeted everyone with a loud “Hee~ey!”, they all cheered loudly too, and we got shushed by our adviser. I sat in the middle row and there it was, the first quarter of our school year has begun.

        Looking back at the events that have transpired in the first quarter, the biggest lesson I have learned would be that it’s okay to be different and have little quirks of our own. It was when we were tasked to produce a short film for English, the topic we chose was about individual differences and the film genre was comedy. It opened my eyes to the reality that not everyone would accept you for who you are and that’s okay because there will still be people that’d accept you for who you are and embrace your every little quirk and unique differences.

        Oh no, no, no, dear, our first quarter was not all sunshine and rainbows, of course I encountered obstacles along the way. It was, again, our short film making in English. We wasted quite a lot of time doing nothing and we had no scripts yet so we improvised the first part of our romcom, but then we can’t decide on what’s going to happen next because the first part is so short. We were stuck for days without any concrete script.

        Of course, we managed to solve it. I volunteered to finish the script for a mockumentary I initially proposed and got turned down for lack of moral lesson; I revised my initial script and turned it into something meaningful, for me at least. Then, we proceeded to film with the script I wrote, and with just three days left for filming, we managed to finish filming and producing our short film in time.

        Those two and a half months was really fun considering the two-year melancholy we had just endured. No words would suffice in describing how fun the first quarter was. I also learned a lot from the experiences I had with that seemingly short period of time. I guess, I was blissed out from the rollercoaster ride that is the first quarter. 🌺

        Let’s work hard again in the second quarter! 🦖

        Thank you for stretching your attention span long enough to read until the very end! 🧡

REFERENCE/S:
        Real, J. (2022). [10-Maxwell signage on the first day of school.] [Photograph].
        Real, J. (2022). [10-Maxwell with Sir Julius Pajarillo after the Chamber Theatre performance] [Photograph].
        Real, J. (2022). [10-Maxwell jamming during a Chance Music performance with main vocalist Janea Kishi Ruelos] [Photograph].