EDISON IV is a cluster of witty, warm-hearted, jolly
individuals. We can build a company of our own from the jokes we sell the
multitudes. (How about calling it corny love?) Outsider can never leave our
classroom without being bombarded with lots of ridiculous notions, pairing her/him
with one of our classmates. But we've got plenty of petty love teams, too, within our
class, as Joy and Manny, Teddy and Marie (a stone for a stone and a cock for
a hen). Not wanting to be behind movie love teams, we've got triangles,
too. (Wanna be the third party?) We even have squares, but pops, they're no
love teams at all; they are the heads of Gary and Teddy! In exasperation,
you may cry, "who in the world is the leader of this class?" Thud! Thud!
Thud! No, there isn't any earthquake. Neither was King Kong around. It's
Gary and his big foot! It's Edgar Templonuevo, the barangay leder of Edison
IV. According to rumors, he has 12-inch foot, which later became the
symbol of our class. Upon entering our homeroom, you will readily notice a
pair of feet drawn and cut in a yellow cartolina. Similarly, in our
seatplan, feet were made to represent the seats. We have also our anitos,
two extraordinarily shaped stones, one in the form of a feet and the other,
in the form of a head with a flat back (that's Gary and Teddy's head). We
just love those anitos, even bringing them with us in our class picture taking.
You see, we've got all of 'em mixed up in one. We have the
"first lady of Barok", that Korokan (Badette), lots of money from the bank (Ditas), a most
unique frog for she's so quiet and so shy unlike other frogs we know (Ruth),
and a relative of Teddy and Marie (Edgar) for he's a cock, too. We could
have our own parlour but it's sure to be "for bald and curlies only", with
Ma-an "lubog" and Marissa "Tikya" as patrons.
But Edison IV is not just a bunch of people who do nothing
but laugh and play. We are proud to say that we, too, have our commendations. First, we
have the most number of model platoon members. We have mathematics wizards
(Romy and Roland) as well as good artists, too, (Kinjo, Francis, Ferdie and
Teddy). We are proud of having the most well-versed students in the field
of general information (Dindo, Manny, Noel) besides having the most
outstanding Hi-yer of the year and at the same time an awardee for academic
excellence in Social Studies (Roland). There's Sylvia, the composer of
poems, whether be it in English, Pilipino or Bi-lingual, and a good one at
that! Called for during choral group presentations are the musical voices
of our girls (Marilou, Bing, Joy, Resie and Janette and Mitos). There are
also excellent dancers (Rico, Marie, Susan, Ferdie, Dindo, Noel, Manny,
Roland...), who have joined in group dancing, not withstanding the fact that
all Edisons are graceful and easily trained - sighting for instance our
dancing in Health IV. We have the sexiest, the smartest, most awarded
platoon leader of the year, and that's none other than Offie. We have an
honest kid (Jose Llorca), a black kid (Mike), a german kid (Ariel) and what
have you--
We can't deny that unity is hard to foster. But in our class, at such a
short time span, one could almost readily feel the fellowship that binds us
together. We've learned to laugh lightly at our own mistakes and applaud
our achievements.
Edison IV people are gifted especially in the sense that each and everyone
has his/her own ability of making an individual feel confident and important
in his own way. Right in the middle of a silent and serious lesson, there's
no doubt someone's gonna pop out and crack a joke and that's supposed to be
our own way of enlightening the topic on hand. Everybody's gonna burst into
laughter and even shed tears of overwhelming joy.
But above all these silly, witty, wondrous things, we have the most
beautiful adviser, Miss Luz Laquian. In our day to day endeavor, she guides
and shines that beautiful smile which in turn gives us inspiration in all
our difficulties.
Sylvia Sandoval