Blast From the Past
Its always a pleasant surprise when friends you haven’t seen in years suddenly pop back into your life.
Last Saturday, all my high school batch mates who live in the Bay Area and I got together for an early Christmas party. I’ve seen most of them on a regular basis since I moved here but one guy in particular, Deny, I haven’t seen since we graduated high school from CSA in 1999. We, along with Marco, Rose, and David, were all in 7J (our 7th grade section) and were a very close class; almost like one, big, 33 person barkada (clique). After graduation, we all went our separate ways: to different universities and different countries, and slowly lost touch with each other. It was really nice to see him again after all these years.
Mini 7J reunion: Rose, Deny, David, me.
A few days later, a message was left for me on this very blog from Jason whom I haven’t seen in 14 years! In 1993, when I was 11, I went to a CISV international summer camp in Sweden called Goose Village. There were delegations from about 11 countries like Norway, Honduras, Argentina, Iceland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Brazil. Jason was from the Pittsburgh delegation. He said that he did a search on Google for "CISV Goose Village" and this blog was the one and only search result. See? I knew some good would come from posting our camp photo on here! He added me onto his Facebook page and from there I found a few more people from camp! I found Joanna, our Junior Counselor from Canada, Elna, our camp director, Jenny and Mia from the Swedish delegation, Lars Martin from the Norwegian delegation, Henky, the Swedish JC, and Mats, our Kitchen staff. I honestly never thought I’d see any of them again and, with exception of Elna who visited me in Manila a few years back, I probably never will, but its still nice to see their photos, learn where they are and what they’re doing, and do a little catching up.
Where’s Waldo? 
