Mark Anthony Esperida

Overnight

It was our third overnight for the Stargazer’s Society members. But this overnight is different from the past overnights. All the freshmen attended the overnight.
I did not go home. My father sent me the things that I needed for the overnight. He also sent me my supper. After eating, I changed my clothes and wore the club’s t-shirt. When the clock stroke seven, my classmates started to arrive. Some of their parents with them and others reached school by themselves. Mme. Gallo told us to lay our beddings.
Around eight in the evening, Mr. Christopher Go had a short lecture about the Junior Red Spot and the New Horizons Pluto Express. He also showed us some animations that he did for his lecture. He showed us pictures of his bosses and the planet Jupiter. He informed us that year 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy. Some of my schoolmates asked questions and he answered all of them.
After the lecture, we went back to the soccer field. I wanted to sleep or just lie down, but the boys in our class decided to have our mats closed so that we’ll have a bigger space. We made noise. I decided to watch a movie in the LEADER and invited my classmates to watch. They hurried to the LEADER at once. We brought our blankets for it was cold and we didn’t bring jackets. The demand of the viewers was to play the DVD Princess Hours. I was the one who operated the DVD player. But then a second year student told me that he will play a horror film. I went back to my seat. Some of my classmates were shouting already even if it’s in the introduction of characters. I have already seen the movie but I wanted to watch it again. The movie was “The Shutter”.
One of my classmates screamed. The next part is the most exciting part for it was near the end. Mme. Gallo said that we should stop the film because we were noisy and people were asleep. We can wake them up. And in fact, horror movies are not allowed. We went back to our place, where we lied down, ate and drank. I and my boy classmates decided to sleep. One of our classmates was very noisy; imitating one of our teachers. We can’t sleep because of him but a little while later he was asleep. So, I decided to sleep.
It was four thirty when I woke up. They laughed at me because I was the first one that was fast asleep and I should be the first one to wake up but I was not the first one to wake up. Instead, I was the last one to wake up in our group. We brushed our teeth in the sink. We decided to have jogging and roam around the school. It was a minute or two past five thirty when the wake up call sounded. The school bell rang.
We took pictures. It was always done after each overnight: to have picture-taking and to hear the wake up call. I said goodbye to my classmates and friends. And that was the end of our third overnight in the U.P.H.S. Grounds.

posted by markanthony @ 12:23 PM