Against the Waves

After the tutorials, I suddenly thought about my plans for college. So I decided to go to USC Main and try to find out how I am going to go to college. That was a January 20, the day for the big procession for the Sto. Niño. I did not realize that that was going to happen until I got there. I, together with Eñego, got caught up in traffic and we got to walk some blocks to get to the university. At the end of the road was our destination but the current of the people won’t let us through. So we decided to go with the flow, in order for us to cross the road. God made us join the procession for Him.

I was so surprised when Nico shared to me that it was his first time to join the procession for the Sto. Niño. It was ironic because he was once a student of the Sto. Niño School when he was still in elementary. He shared to me his experiences when he was still in grade school while we were finding our way to reach the gates of USC.

After minutes of chit-chatting while walking, we finally set foot on the campus, we then realized, “Now what?” so both of us decided to ask the person in charge on what to do and he simply replied, “The office is closed.” Oh, what a nice answer.

I don’t know but, at that time, I didn’t feel bad that I didn’t get what I was there for. We just enjoyed the adventure of crossing the river of people. Anyway, we just decided to go against the flow, to go far away from where we were just to get home. We walked kilometers away from the crowd that we reached Carbon. We almost got lost. We even got to laugh at ourselves that we almost got lost. Fortunately, a jeepney was passing by and it was traveling for SM. Without any hesitations, we rode the jeepney, we are finally safe. Whew….What a productive afternoon it has been.

We got to ride a jeepney with someone who was very mysterious, a girl who kept on smiling at us. We found it weird because we clearly noticed her. Maybe she knows us. We just don’t know. Then, Nico noticed that the girl was making adjustments to her bracelet and he saw these words on her bracelet—“Youth for Christ” Now it made sense! At that time, I was wearing a YFC shirt and she recognized it. She wanted to make us notice her that she too is a member of this group. Well it was fun making and proving theories after all!