Goodbye English Block

Good-bye English Block!

It is very hard to imagine that almost a year has passed since I entered Ateneo. Looking back, I realized how funny my reaction was when I found out that my English block was different from my own block. None of my friends from my ME block was there and so, I was disgusted. What’s the point of having a separate English block? Why can’t I have my ME blockmates as my English blockmates?  I

But of course I couldn’t do anything. So, I just entered the class. If I remember it right, in our first meeting in English, the activity was connecting an adjective starting with the first letter of your first name to your first name. I had so much fun in that activity, and there I found my first friends in the English block.

The following activities in English were cool; and classes in Lit were so much fun. So that eventually, I have come to like my English classes and my English block.

English and Lit classes to me became like stress-relievers because the block was funny and especially that it came right after my math class… my horrible math class.

            One thing I really like about the block is that, it’s a combination of people from different courses: Biology, Chemistry, AMF and ME. I really like talking to the SOSE people because talking to them makes me feel that I have a light workload. It’s so nice to see people studying harder subjects than me. It makes me feel blessed. Joke!

            Anyway, my main point here is that, I really like R49; and so it is sad to know that this is the end of R49, that there may never be a chance for these people to once again gather in one room as a class.

            Now I know why there is a separate English block. There could be only one reason: It spices up the college life!

            Once upon a time I hated English and literature subjects. But it’s funny to think that I’ve really enjoyed such classes in college. It must be because of the block and maybe because of the teachers as well. (Please exclude DD. Hahahah joke!)

            I am not really good in good-byes. I actually hate good-byes. But I will still say it: Goodbye English Block… good-bye R49, it was really nice sharing classes with you, and though the block wasn’t as tight as the other English blocks, still, we were a team, we were blockmates, and for me, we are the best English block, after all we are R49.

           

           

~ by maricrisantonio on March 28, 2008.