It's not Goodbye, It's See You Later

So, this will be the second to the last day of our training. I am bit excited because at last I could go back home. I could go back to school again, which by the way has started already last June 6. Yes, I will be absent for 4 days from the class. It's okay since I have the valid reason-OJT, of course.

Thinking that I will eventually leave this city which I have lived in for 2 months make me feel sad. I think, I have learned to love Cagayan de Oro. All my life, I have been living in a rural, far away place. This is my first time to live in a "real" city where hotels and restaurants are everywhere, where you have to race to pass across the street to avoid being hit by the vehicles, where shopping malls are big and have a lot of option, where foods are "mahal", where night life is alive and most of all where b****es are scattering around the city every night. Hehe.

I am fascinated with the atmosphere of the city (call me taga bukid) and I won't deny that I am a "probinsyana" in nature. The buildings, the night lights, the billboards, the people, everything in the place seems exciting though you know there's always a danger in the city. There was even a night where we heard someone was murdered just a block away from where we were.(Well,we did not follow our curiosity to see the crime scene. Leaving that aside, I should say I really had a good time in Cagayan de Oro. Perhaps it's because I was living in my own, just with friends, and free from the observant eyes of my mother or family adds the peculiar feelings that I feel.

Though there were times also that I was in despair, missing all my loved ones from my hometown or running out of budget and had no idea how to earn money, I just realized this has added colors to my life here in Cagayan. Now that I will be going home, hmm, I am now reminiscing the memories I have in tnis place.

There are a lot of and I even forgot some of the good things that happened to me here. Anyway, to name a few are the following below;

I really enjoyed the night cafe every Fridays and Saturdays here. With Arizza, we had a great time trying to fit in all the shoes we like in the ukay2x stalls. The vendors always shout "oh pili, pili diri..libre SUKOD(2X)", so that's it. It's freee anyway!

I love the Proven. I crave for it everyday. I am always mentioning it to my classmates because I am really in love with this street delicacy of Cagayan de Oro. This is for sure the first thing that I would miss in this city. Because there is no proven in Ozamiz, cross my finger.

I would surely miss the malls. Of course there are malls in Ozamiz but not as big and as vivid as in CDO's. Would surely miss the "fun time" stuffs and gimmicks. Never do it during school days.

I guess I would also miss the staffs in Sticky Media Solutions, Inc. We had no opportunity to be that close to them but atleast we have befriended some of them. The work? Well, I have learned a lot. =) What it is, I am in no position to share. :p

Memories. Well, there are a lot of memories I had here. Arizza, my roommate, for sure discovered some qualities that could turn off every man in town about me. I sang terribly. Not because I have a horrible voice but I admit, I do make ridiculous lyrics especially the songs that I only know the tone but definitely not the lyrics. haha.

I am very noisy when I cross the streets especially when I see a vehicle running towards me...Waaah. Kriza and Arizza would then laugh at me. Poshhh! There was one time when I already came at the center of the road and a taxi was heading on the other side, I went back to the side where I came from with the two girls instead of just staying there and wait for the taxi to pass. Stupid me. Haha! Of course, my stop sign is a bit funny too. I can't help it. Better to be looking like a dancing traffic enforcer than to be hit by a car! Oh by the way, what I hate in CDO is the jeep and vehicles that run recklessly in the streets. They had a terrible traffic habit here. One must be careful then, like me. Bleeh!

One of the funniest experience I had here in CDO was when I had a stiff neck and back. I couldn't look upward, sideward and downward. Well, it's not funny..it's painful! But the laughing thing was when I need to drink water (bottled water) and I have to sit in the stairs and stand against the wall in sloping manner. Could you imagine how funny my position was? For sure you can't, Kriza stole a picture of me in that position and I swear, it's ridiculous. But I deleted it, so no evidence. Knowing Kriza...haha

Well, there's still a lot of things that I want to share and I still have to correct the grammars above. But I am running out time. I will continue this later.
Adieu for now! =)



......to be continued