Never Ending Story

Who says the story at elementary school finish when we graduate and use new uniform?

In fact, even we may be apart with our schoolmate, the memories still live. Maybe we still remember our first day in elementary school, our first teacher, our first chairmate, and maybe our first puppy love (Ehm…).


Yeah, we spend the longest time to study in elementary school. Six years, together with our classmate. So, it must be many things happen on that time. Not only about studying. Let’s say the incidents when we were punished because came late, cheated in exam, talked during the class, or disturbed our friend (but sometimes we’re lucky not getting caught). And how about the break time and after school activities like eating together, playing rope (main karet), playing ‘galaksin’, playing card, and many more. We also hitched our friend with the others and called our friends with their parents’ name. Whatever, everything seemed funny, right? Our friend who was still accompanied with parents, easily cry, smell bad, and even the naughty one still looked cute on that time.
  
And now, when we have grown up, we have our own business with new friends and in new environment. Some of us maybe lose contact with elementary school schoolmate. That used to happen to me. But now I feel lucky because I could meet my schoolmate of elementary school again. Not only meet, but also organize event together. It was December 19th 2008, our first meeting since 2000. I thought it just the ordinary meeting like we did 8 years ago. But I was totally wrong coz it was the extraordinary meeting. We not only gathered for talking, but also discussed about reunion. So, it meant that the meeting would be continued. And the most important thing, that’s the beginning of PANSER ’92 (Persatuan Alumni Senter Angkatan 1992).

Organizing reunion event together made us getting closer. We spent our time at least once in two weeks. In the meeting, the discussion was not always about organizing reunion. Sometimes we just hanged out together, did experiment in the kitchen, shared story, told jokes, or ate together. We also recalled our memories in elementary school that made us laugh together. There were also some of us who felt embarrassed or even guilty when remembered that. Those activities make me realize that we still have good memory about our childhood, saved well in our memory. And our chemistry is never disappear, just be hidden for a while. I feel like having new friends. And I think our relationship is even better than the last one when we’re still in elementary school. It’s kind of renewing the old one.


The peak event happened on February 15th 2009 at Kebun Raya Bogor. There were lots of funs. Sharing session, eating together, meeting our teachers, playing games, taking picture, and having award session. And the unforgettable one was when the rain came. All of us were wet coz no shelter could be reached except a little number of umbrella and leafy trees. We just surrendered being wet. But it didn’t fade our happiness away. Even we were tired and wet, our smile still blew. If I must choose one word to describe what I felt on that day, I have no idea. Because it contains two words: extraordinary excited.

That was not our last episode of story. Our story will be continued with the new one. As our story won’t be end, our friendship, hopefully, will never ever reach the end too. Amien!