Just a little disclaimer: I'll be using aliases, not real names. (Like, I'll be calling my friends here by the meanings of their real names or nicknames.)
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This week, our classes slowly began. I say slowly, because the university tends to hold a welcoming event for the freshmen and new students, and of course the continuing batch of students. It usually lasts a week and an opening ceremony (somewhat) is held on the day prior to the official first day of classes.
I didn't attend the ceremony or program but I did went to school that day since I wanted to know if classes had officially started. I was actually anxious since I wasn't added to the group conversations in our virtual platform [somewhat like Google Classroom]. We're still in blended learning, like there are virtual classes at the same time face-to-face classes in our schedule.
Last A.Y., I didn't attend the Welcoming Week since I was still adjusting and I was a loner. Some students had gotten close with each other through group chats on Messenger. I was a part of it but I'm not as interactive as them. I get really nervous whenever I send a message to group chats. Unless if the group consists of people I've become comfortable with.
Don't ask me why, that's just how I am.
The parade started at nine o'clock in the morning. It was in their program schedule posted on Facebook days before. One of my friends, Moon, wanted to attend the said parade and the ceremony but was stuck in traffic. So, in the end, we both met up five minutes to eleven.
We also met up with another friend who was a working student, Autumn. Her work shift in school starts at one in the afternoon, so we wanted to go with her to the National Museum. But when we got out of the campus, the roads were packed with cars and the traffic doesn't seem fit for us to take a trip to the museum and come back to the school at exactly twelve.
So went back inside and visited the booths.
We had lunch near the library, since my phone was connected to a wifi there. As Moon scrolled through her feed while eating her meat bread, I ate bits of what's inside my lunch box— which was rice and cooked minced meat and vegetables that I bought outside the campus.
We talked and talked until our conversation brought us to a trip to the National Museum with just the two of us.
I placed my lunch box back in my box and said, "Are you really sure we're gonna go to the museum without Autumn?"
Moon nodded her head while she picked up her eating pace.
"Okay," I took her water bottle and drank from it, "but you need to slow down, you're gonna choke that way."
She gave me a look.... it's something that I understand but I can't explain it well.
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