THE BEST PART: COMPLETION RITES

By: Maria Lilienne Maquito

We lose, we win that’s how life works. Each one of us faces a lot of struggles
in our life. We faced it bravely with a faith inside of our heart. I know it’s hard for us to
face challenges but at the end, we feel grateful as we accomplished it. Life is
challenging.

I just want to share my unforgettable moment during our Completion Rites in

Grade 10 way back July 2022. During that time, we are still on modular learning as a
way of learning/learning method. I diligently study and take my modules seriously. I
sacrificed myself meeting up all requirements just to get high grades. Every quarter,
I’m a consistent honor student, getting a certificate while joyfully show it to my
mother and father. I jumped into joy as I saw my name as a Top 1 student. I feel
more motivated and inspired as I belong to honor student every quarter. As our
Completion Rites is near, I fell more excited. Thankfully, I belong again to Honor as
class salutation. During those time, my only wish is I will walk on the carpet with
papa as I want to experience that he will attend and join me on stage as he wear the
medal for me. But, all of my expectation doesn’t true. During the Completion Rites,
my mama was the one who join me to walk on the carpet and go to the stage to wear
my medal. I feel sad and empty as I saw my co. completers with their father. It is my
greatest gift that I really want. I slowly burst into tears as I can’t join with papa. I
know it’s hard to understand because he is an OFW and he needs to work hard just
to sustain our needs as his children. Even he didn’t attend my completion. I’m still
happy as I deliver my welcome address speech on the stage. For me, it is the only
gift that I will give to papa. It is momentous event that soars my heart as I remember.
This is the most unforgettable day of my life; the best part.
 It was the best day of my life. Way back June 20, 2019. My cousins arrived
from Manila to celebrate the birthday of Aunt Nemia. I was excited that they will
arrived. Those beach trips and road trips that they will planned. The sleepovers will
be experienced again. When they arrived, I hugged them. We eat together and bond
together.

One night, they planned of our sleepover. They planned all the laugh trips and
activities that we will do. It was 8:30 pm at the night, we start to play games, pillow
fights, and eat ice cream and pizza. As we are eating, Ivan, my cousin seems
unirritable. We laugh and share stories to each other, when a sound caught our
attention and bad smell. It was Ivan having stomachache as he eats a lot and needs
to go to Comfort Room. We laughed and laughed at the night. As we feel asleep,
kyle secretly take a pic of each of us. He also take a video of us snoring while
sleeping showing our dumb faces. As we woke up in the morning, kyle showing the
epic moment of our sleepover. The pictures while sleeping, the candid funny shots of
us, and the video of our epic trips. It was the best and unforgettable night in my life.