Who could have thought that after almost 40 years, our high school classmates can meet again! We graduated from different elementary schools and entered La Union National High School in 1978. It was during our time that our school was “nationalized” since it was built by the Americans in 1903 — 5 years ahead of my college alma mater, University of the Philippines. 🙂

The Covid pandemic brought “many negative things” that you can think of and even hard to discuss here…As I live in Japan, I encountered the 2 Kanji characters of crisis and if taken separately, one means Dangerous and the other one means Opportunity. Our high school batch section took the positive side out of the global predicament we are in now. In our recent discussions especially on Sunday nights where we formed Rizalians ’82 Prayer Meeting, we realized that we are all equal now — no rich, no poor, no more fashion-conscious, no better-looking — all needing God’s protection and provision and more so of personal relationship with Him through accepting His Son Jesus, our only Savior and Lord. Great that we made our 6th Sunday Prayer Meeting via Zoom, StreamYeard & FB Chatgroup last night (see the attached photo)!

Since July, our classmates in Section 1 (about 19 sections per high school year; grouped according to scholastic standing so we belong to the Star Section and among us race to the Top Ten Students 🙂 took the opportunity to gather all our 52 classmates that are located in the different parts of the globe! About 8 are based in the US, 6 in Canada, 2 in Japan, 1 each in Turks and Caicos Islands, Australia, Switzerland, Thailand, Malaysia, “4 had gone ahead of us,” and the rest based in the Philippines or need to be updated the whereabouts of about 8 classmates. We hope to keep our communication going and travel down memory lane since we reunited via Facebook two months ago. 🙂

How’s your high school life? Are you in touch with your classmates? What opportunity you have created during the Covid global pandemic?