10. It's facetime!! 81% of your former classmates show up with the same winning smiles, definitely of different dress sizes, gratefully nobody on wheelchair yet, and...
on the parts and repair dept, all present, and they are of the same age!!!
9. Had the chance to sit in the Nursing Demonstration Room once again, with empty heads, (hopefully so we can still learn)... listening ears? (debatable!!)
Imagine 18 women yupping it up!!
8. Enjoy a meal and savor Bicol cuisine, (courtesy of Susan Pales Castaneda) and get the chance to pick on Norma Mandane Bootan for coming in late!
7. Glad for the opportunity to hug Fe Sazon Seva, and get to answer the perennial question "Are you married yet?"
Answer: "Are you kidding? And risk developing Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy?" ... had 18 loves just for that day...!
6. Spend a day with the rest of the Aquinas alumni on the same grounds we walked on, several decades ago. Met new friends, reconnect with old ones..
Special thanks to Owen Escalada Basco for bringing all of them together!
5. HATS OFF TO:
Maria Llamas Rubino for her tireless effort in coordinating activities with the Aquinas University of Legazpi planning committees
Susan Monforte Matito and Julius Matito for providing us with a precious record of our memories, bringing those mementos for the class and prizes for the students
Judith F, for the class uniform during the medical Mission day
Edna R, for taking care of the "greens"
Chato B, for chairing the Medical Mission... what a trooper!
Zeny A, for updating our class record, once again... (we remember how you opened your home, and your heart during that first reunion a looong time ago... such loyalty!
4. Appreciate and are grateful for the warm welcome from Dr. Ampy Binamira, Dean Vic Peralta and the Faculty of the College of Nursing
To my colleagues, for sharing your thoughts with the alumni and the students during the symposium. You had expressed how difficult it is for some of us to be "public speakers"
BUT you went out there and did it. You had the courage to be vulnerable! (Not to worry, my dear buddies, as nurses and mamas, you're way up there!!)
3. Thanks, for being open-minded and lifelong learners, and for acknowledging the invaluable contribution of our mentors in our educational journey!
2. Happy, for the chance to celebrate an anniversary, more birthdays, and DANCE!!!
1. Forever grateful, for Father Ernie's prayers, and the Dominican Fathers, for our Aquinian education.... PRICELESS!!!!
From Houston, with love, and some nostalgia!!
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