Animo La Salle!

Today (June 16, 2011) we celebrated the 100th year of the La Sallian presence here in the Philippines, from 1911 – 2011. The statue of St. John Baptist de la Salle was brought here from somewhere – probably from France where he came from?

My boyfriend, my sister, and my friend and I went to De La Salle University where the celebration is being held after work hours (for me and my friend at least, after class for my sister and before work for my boyfriend). We got there and the university was jam packed. Full of students wearing centennial shirts or jackets, green and white. Everyone seems to be hugging people. It was a place where people re-united after a long time.

I myself saw a couple of people from my college days. Although most of them are not the ones I worked closely with, or been closely with, it was still fun to see them again.

There were people selling stuff all over the campus. Centennial shirts, DLSU shirts, or just plain clothes and food for people. It’s like the Entrep people are just trying to finish a project – which most probably they are considering that this is the best time to actually sell something and get rid of all your products.

The campus has been open to the public from 3PM this afternoon, the reason why my sister was able to come with. She was so excited and scared as hell all at the same time. When she thought she lost us, I saw the look in her face and it made me laugh. She had the look of someone who is screwed. She is not familiar with the place considering that it was her first time there and she is not a La Sallian. With the amount of people there and the less space we have to move around, her face seemed to say, “Oh. Shit. I am SO dead. Where ARE THEY!?!” I seriously laughed when I saw her face. I wish I had my camera. :))

So, it’s been 2 years since I graduated 2 years in 2 days since I graduated from college. I miss going to school. I even miss putting out my wallet and scanning my ID for the turnstile to get in. Today I just showed them my Alumni ID, either that, or I just went right in. It is an open campus anyways. They don’t check anything except for bags I guess. Although they checked our IDs when we were going back from dinner to watch the fireworks.

These are my IDs. The one at the top had been my ID for the past 4 years I was in school, and the other one is my Alumni card which happens to expire this month! Lucky me. Hahaha.

My god. I look at these IDs and I see how I had changed within 4 years! From a very, VERY shy girl to one that has a little bit more confidence in herself. From one that’s fat, to one that’s a little thinner. :))

I was able to buy 2 shirts (I’ll put up images by next week once I get home from my vacation) from the school. We reached there around 8 and left past 10 just after the fireworks.

The fireworks was just AMAZING. They even lit lanters before the fireworks started and while THE DAWN was playing. There was even this one lantern where it got stuck on one of the buildings (SPS) roof and the fire almost touched the roof when it got out. Then it got stuck again, this time at the Yuchengo building (a famous building in DLSU where everyone seems to take a picture of as a proof that they had been inside DLSU. It is not really as seen from the outside) and still the same thing happened. Everyone was yelling at the lantern instead of listening and wooowing at the concert.

Everything was great except for the fact that it would have been better if everything (all the concerts and stuff ) was held in the soccer field. Sadly, they removed the only thing that remains to be green and not a building in the campus. They removed it and is now turning it into a building which I believe they are going to make public. This school is nothing like the school that I went to. All halls that made things easier to pass through were closed. The soccer field where I used to do my ROTC is now gone, the restaurants where I usually ate are now closed. Everything has changed in just 2 years. :|