So excited for graduate schooling, I almost missed the first class because I really don’t have any idea as to what room my class would be. I did not dare ask any department assistant before the “Sorry, we are closed”-signed glass door. Instead, I got the wrong bulletin which drove to the nearest internet cafe to check my class schedule online. I left the cafe frustrated and tried my luck back inside the campus.

Finally, after roaming the entire building, I met at the elevator my new classmate/friend, whose acquaintance she created during the enrolment period. If she did not get my attention, I could have missed her – in her formal attire to which she referred to as the get-up she was mistaken to be the teacher of the class by the early-bird classmates (?).

Anyway, she told me our unknown teacher is absent on the first day of our class. That relief was a frustration.

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P.S. Happy Philippine Independence Day (I almost forgot it’s also Happy Fiesta in Toledo City!)