A Family Affair to Remember

A family affair is a big event where in the members of the family including the relatives will be united and the long time friends that haven’t met for a long time will meet again. It has an aim to unite the members of the family especially the ones that has arguments with each other to reconcile and unite in one memorable event.

The family affair that I am talking about is the Family Day that happened recently in the University of the Philippines High school in Cebu. It happened last February 25, 2007. I can say that it is a family affair to remember because in our Family Day, the members of the family including all the relatives were united by this activity. The long time friends that haven’t met for a long time will meet through this activity. This activity is really effective in uniting the family members, relatives, friends and classmates in one memorable event. This is also the day that they will cherish the memorable memories and moments that happened in the past.

There is so much that happened in our Family Day ’07. Since this is our first time to attend in the Family Day in U.P. High, we really have fun and excitement. There are games, and contests. We even won in the highest seller of raffle tickets and we also won in the biggest participation because others bring their relatives, friends and former classmates. It is also in our section that won in the earliest person that arrived first in the U.P. high. It is because he came in the school at twelve o’ clock in the midnight of February 24, 2007.This student that I am referring to is my classmate, Ariel Latras. This is the day that our projects in school were displayed in our Home Technology Room for the Open House. This is also the day that our hand made letters such as the Love letters and the Thank You letters for our parents and sisters were given to them. This is also the day that we presented our Seagull Dance entitled Lapay Bantigue in the open stage. We offered this dance for our parents.

I am also very happy on this day because my classmate, Axl Rose Arnejo, came to the school. She happened to come to our school because she was brought by Rea Jeanica Sabijon, my classmate recently and my classmate in my elementary years. I am very happy because how I wish we will have our batch ’05- ’06 reunion so that I can see again my former classmates and friends.

If there is a happy thing, there is also a sad thing. It is because Madam Erlinda Gallo, our Science A, B, and C teacher and class adviser had her farewell speech and she was crying when she delivered her speech because she was a teacher in our school for many years (about two decades) and she is really a good teacher but now she is going to retire because she wanted to stay home. Even my classmates cried too.

As a first timer in U.P. High’s Family Day ’07, I can really say that it is fun and exciting!!! I hope that it could also be fun and exciting next year!