March 14, 1993

STUDYING IN THE DEPARMENT
Setting: The Ateneo high School faculty workroom, or one of the departments in De La Costa building of the College.
___ It's a live-in seminar for teachers. Although I am not a teacher yet, I was in the department while the teachers were attending sessions. I am studying. I intend to stay here the whole night to study under a lamp in some secluded area of the department but teachers start pouring in to fix the beddings--- preparing to sleep. I make sure I stake my claim at the desk I'm utilizing, since they're rearranging all the furniture in the place.
___ Night time. Everyone's asleep. Most of the lights are off. I am still awake, still looking around for a place in the faculty workroom where I can study all night.

WAITING FOR THE BAGUIO BUS
Suddenly I am in a concrete island in the middle of a highway, near some overpasses and toll booths. (I know I've been here before.) A few of us ACMG-ers are waiting to ride a bus bound for Baguio for our retreat. We've been waiting for a bus as if andaling maka-para ng bus na papuntang Baguio sa gitna ng daan. Ano iyon? Parang Quiapo bus lang? I spot an old friend and greet her, but her response is far from overjoyed. I wonder why. I tell my ACMG friends to wait for me, there is something I must do or get before I go on retreat.

BELATED BIRTHDAYS AND PEOPLE FOR THE POOL
I rush to the ACMG room to greet Bubbles a belated birthday (one day late). As I greet her, a young girl in a mustard yellow one-piece swimsuit emerges from the Sunken Garden in Colayco Hall. She walks nonchalantly as if there were a pool right around the corner. Her parents trail her in the same beach/pool attire. But where are they headed?
___ Then I realize if a Baguio bus passed by while I was here dilly-dallying and greeting friends, I would miss my chance to go on retreat...

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