SAI 4th Grand Homecoming

“We left SAI but SAI never left in our hearts!”… Just like a mother who constantly awaits her sons and daughters, SAI still stands proud and lovingly caresses her present children. The 4th SAI General Homecoming that was held last September 23 - 23 was a great day to meet and update your old pals and classmates. Though not all Batches or Classes from 1951 to present were individually represented, the event was worth attending for. We (with Ate Fe Tupal-Madamba) travelled all the way from Manila to Gigaquit just to attend this special occasion. Our family from our father, mother, kaming 7children were all SAI graduates except our bunso - Michael- who just attended his freshman and sophomore years sa SAI. He graduated in San Nicolas in Surigao City). It was nice to see your classmates once again, your old friends and old acquitances. The atmosphere during the celebration was very festive; incidentally, it was a week before the Gigaquit Town Fiesta. The day was hot and quite dry but every batch participated the parade enthusiastically. The dual citizenship (senior citizen / Filipino citizen…hehehe) SAIans who were not able to endure the heat during the parade were into the convoy of cars. The parade started from the Church after the special mass held specially for the SAI Alumni, then it went through the beautifully decorated streets of Alambique  down to the Main road then back to the SAI ground. It was followed then by a very colorful and well executed presentation by the SAI Sirong Sirong group. It amazed me how the new SAIans now did those kind of presesentation! I remember our years before that in every special occasion like this, tama na ang Drum and bugle Corps tuwang tuwa na ang crowd…hehehe… nag evolve na rin ang SAI (’kako). It was nice to watch their presentation to the delight of the whole Alumni also. I don’t know if they were able to perform on a bigger crowd already outside Gigaquit but the group is very competitive and deserved a very good compliment… bravo! hurray! clap…clap…clap! i might upload your video guys on youtube (puede ba?) …hehehe…I got your whole presentation on video anyway. After the presentaion, the whole group then proceeded to the Gigaquit Multi purpose building for the Programs. Honestly, the alumni were not all ears to the report and satsatan sa taas ng stage, but instead they were all busy with their batchmates chatting: di matapos tapos an ‘wentuhan e. Keber ba kung anong laman ng financial report ni Mano Luya basta tuloy lamang an way katapusan na tawanan remembering those high school years pati mga kapalpakan namo sa una. Que se hudang may election pa pala sa hapon our batch (batch ‘87) escaped the program and went to the Townhouse to plan our dinner (kainan na naman huh!).

The fellowship night (as what it should be) was (for me) disappointing. Seeing  and judging the alumni crowd  who were mainly composed of  Batch 80’s to present, the night was to be a night full of fun and dancing but it turned out to be a Coronation Night! whoahhhh! I could not get the point that the organizer still made an “instant muse segment” of that night where it took them almost 3 hours to finish that instead of pure fun for all alumni. It was about or past 11pm already when the “Coronation” had finished. The dual citizens and the baby boomers were going home now but the martial law babies and the yuppies were starting to come alive. The dance floor were full and you could feel the enjoyment of the crowd. I didn’t know what time it finished but we needed to go home past 12mn, we still have an early flight back to Manila tomorrow.

 Sa iban na waya makaattend, I am posting the pictures during the Alumni Celebration. Enjoy rakan lamang kamo sa pictures ha? Talagang hiniram ko ang old digicam ng Ate ko para lang mapicturan ko tong event na to para maishare sa inyo. I know you miss SAI kaya just search nyo na lang mga faces na nandito. i hope makakita kayo ng mga mga kabatchmates nyo or kaya mga crushes nyo before hehehe… Click nyo na lang PHOTO tab para sa pictures. For the video, I will post that some other site kasi malapit na mafull eto e.

Enjoy all! SAI matters!