First Time Meeting A Virtual Friend and a Hiver

It was a fine day to start with and supposed to be one of our rest days from the class but the school asked us to sacrifice a few hours of it. We have to go back to the school and participate at the auditions for the mass dance and school pageant to be held at the upcoming Freshmen Day after the midterm exams. Since dancing is the very least that I can do, I just logged in at the NSTP office to lessen my duty hours for the week. It's boring as expected as I have nothing to do in there but to sit and wait for someone who needs some first aid treatment and give them assistance. Gladly, no one was injured or not feeling well during the day. All I did was just browsing my phone and sleep in my desk.

Then, Ate @lhes sent a picture of the Bacolod public plaza in the Discord general chats. Goodness, seeing that had awaken my sleepy soul. I can't express how much excitement I have felt seeing that and I immediately replied to asked her for a meetup after her work and after my class. I thought that we will be here until 8 pm, so I said that having a dinner with her would be perfect after we're done with responsibilities.

Yet, it doesn't went with what I have expected it to happen. We were dismissed at around 2 pm. It would be a long wait before the meetup could happen but thanks to my classmates who don't have any plans to go home yet, we roam around the mall and the downtown first until they're satisfied with sightseeing and got tired with all the walks.

I got out and went to the next shop after they won the tickets. They still wanted to play but I felt tired from all the activity of the week. So, I went to rent a massage chair for 30 minutes for only while they still enjoy playing in the arcade. I can hear their names got called out by the staff for the reserved karaoke booth, I'm guessing that they were singing already.

By the way, this was what they are seeing in that corner. Some of my classmates wanted to take a picture with that background and the other was their photographer, then the guy was teaching the girl how to take good photos of them. After that, we bought snacks as they got tired and hungry from the walks. Each of them caught a ride to go home after they were done eating and I was the only one left as I was still waiting for Ate Lhes. I just looked for a seat to rest from all the walks and read some blogs to kill time.

I was admiring these lights, while	Ate Lhes took a pic of me taking a pic of them.

Though I started to be active online for years, this is still my first time meeting my virtual friends personally. Back then, I wasn't really fond of the idea and I'm not the type who will stick on keeping those virtual acquaintances for long time friend. That kind of perspective have changed as I started blogging since I can get to know them through their blogs and I can interact with them more on Discord. We have built trust and friendship overtime, some of them are already like my brothers and sisters. Just like Ate Lhes, she's like an older sister to me. I'm just lucky that she has a field work in my place which gave me an opportunity to meet up with her in person. Sadly, her time here was limited as she had to go back to her place the next day. It's okay. Though she left so soon, she still left me a memory that I could cherished forever.