Third year... oh wow, I think I am now having some memory block. Hahahaha... what do I remember from that year? Hmmm... okay, for starters, we took over the chemistry lab - that became our classroom because third year Science deals with chemistry. Not my favorite branch of Science - I struggled with the balancing of elements and all that, whew!

We have a new teacher, who became our adviser. She's one great teacher, and very effective, too! She's just like a friend to us, and if you ask each one of us now who was our favorite High School teacher, I am sure all of us would include her in the top 3 list.

This post would probably be the longest I made (time wise), so I will just go with the bullets, and list down the things I remember then come back some other time when I remember a new memory. Hahaha. Some memorable moments in 3rd Year:

• In order for the school to meet up with the parents, they decided (I guess) to honor the top 10 students every quarter, and also give awards for the Model Girl / Boy of the class. The picture above was taken during the end of the first quarter. A classmate brought a camera and she wanted to take pictures of us. Actually, there were quite a lot of pictures taken in the nearby playground, but I wasn't able to get a copy.
  
• We had a new Computer class teacher, who happens to be my barkada's uncle. It was in this school year that we learned how to convert numbers to binary, decimal, hexadecimal (and one more I forgot)... and because Liza and I were both using a Sharp scientific calculator (most classmates used Canon), we were able to figure out how to convert numbers even before it was taught to us. Our giggles and our excitement as we raised our hands to solve the math problem made our teacher not pleased at all. Hahahaha.
• Our adviser was also our trigonometry teacher, and in her efforts to make us learn quickly, she would give problems to solve, and the first 5 students to come up wit the right solution would earn 1 point each, and will be credited for their class recitation.
• I quit CAT, which was okay, because my brother became the Corps Commander.
• The guitar fever came up - everyone just wanted to learn how to play the instrument, including me. I struggled with it, and a classmate told me something like, "it would be impossible for me to learn it," or something similar. I was deeply hurt.
• We didn't have a JS-Prom, because the school admin wanted to punish the 4th year students, who were quite the notorious class. Awww...
• Our Math teacher has earned the reputation of being the "Red Bull Teacher," because she loves eating the time of other subjects! Imagine teaching us Math, and eating the Filipino subject (the teacher was absent)... so when it was time for Trigo class, our adviser just let us "breathe."
  
• Still with Math, our teacher wanted to give us a little chance to be exempted from the quarterly exam, and gave a very long test. All students who wanted to get their chance can take the test, but it's not mandatory. The "brainy clique" decided not to take the exam as they knew it was some sort of fun prank - they knew the teacher won't give an easy test (of course, who would want to give exemptions, right?) - but most of the students took it. It was surprisingly quite easy, but I had a difficult time solving the very first question. We were asked to balance the equations, but it was just too difficult! I got a look at the paper in front of me, and he was able to balance it, so I cheated and copied his answers. I submitted my paper before time was up, so the teacher checked on it right away... the equation was actually the prank in the test. Still, I was a happy student, because aside from that, I got 2 more mistakes giving me a final grade of 88% - the exam was 100 points. If only I waited a few more minutes before the teacher said the equation was a joke, I would have 98%. Well... she promised the class all those who got 85% up will be exempted, I was one of the only two who got exempted. Lessons learned - stay with your instinct, don't cheat, and grab any chances like this one. Turned out, the quarterly exam she gave was way too difficult, the "brainy clique" realized they should've taken the test.
  

Recognition Day, Jobi didn't attend the program because she wasn't part of the top 10 and she didn't receive any awards, too. It was sad that the group was incomplete, but I was happy to be part of the top 10 of the class. Since the program took place after the graduating class' Baccalaureate Mass, my parents were there - mom gave brother his award, dad gave me my medal.

*** Jenn ***