College - Being Independent

My messy room

College was one of the memorable part of my life. I became independent.

I was having a school haunting after my highschool life. I went to Davao City to take entrance exams in different universities and then to Cagayan De Oro. Until such time I finally decided to pick Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan as my school. At first, it supposed to be San Carlos University (Cebu) or Siliman University (Dumaguete) but the convenience in traveling was difficult. My mom is left alone in our house. At that time, she has no companion yet in the house.

Summer of 2004, I went to Cagayan De Oro already to have a boarding house haunting and I finally found a dormitory.

I studied in Cagayan De Oro City, a ten (10) hours drive away from home. My first semester in there, I stayed in a dormitory and then I transferred in a room for rent the following semester. In there I met new people and gain new friends.

Ate Luan & Me

The above picture is Ate Luan. She was a medical student in Xavier also and my house mate. Our room was next to each other and she's my closest house mate. We ate out together during weekends and go to church every Sunday. The picture above was taken during our graduation ceremony. We graduated on the same year, it just happened that her graduation ceremony was in the afternoon and mine was in the morning.

NCPF Friends

This picture was taken at Jasaan, Misamis Oriental. These are my friends, I became close to them because of an organization named NCPF in our school. Its like an environmentalist group in our school ad because of this group I was able to fight back when homesick struck me. We usually go out with the group and do nature tripping.

NCPF on River trekking

I have lots of memories and pictures in Cagayan De Oro and I will not forget them even though I haven't back Cagayan for almost 2 years now. After graduation I left Cagayan de Oro already.

The experience was worthy!