WE were one in singing “Farewell” a ballad (a favorite
graduation song during our time) by Bagets star Raymond Lauchengco, and
befittingly, we said goodbye to our beloved high school, our teachers, BFFs, and
the rest of our schoolmates.
For the Class of '89 of Narvacan National Central High School, it was the end of our young lives filled with
emotions and excitements, our seatmates, groupmates, crushes, the JS proms, extra-curricular
activities, and the music we played during school programs. The friendships that
officially began four years earlier marked its end, and times ahead of us would test our
commitment to stay in touch after graduation.
Right after high school we went separate ways. While most of our
classmates in Acacia section trooped to Manila or Baguio for college, I stayed
in Ilocos with Romano Peralta, Gilda Damayo, Mayrene Pintado, Joan Cauton,
Jerry Cabanit and Carolina Filarca; we enrolled and finished college at the
University of Northern Philippines in Vigan.
