Saturday, August 19, 2006



In kindergarten, my youngest sister, Lexi, studied in a co-ed school-- HEdCen, otherwise known as The Little Farm House. And, during her 4-year stay there, she had a lot of friends, a mixture of little girls and little boys. Late last year, she began telling me stories about this little boy whom she seems to have much interest on. (Let's keep him unidentified for now.) And, every time, when I arrive home from school and ask her how the day went, she'd go, "It's okay, we had fun. You know what (name of the little boy here) gave me a necklace. (she'd show it to me afterwards)" That went on for almost a week-- the little boy gave him a different gift each day.


Since Lexi transferred to Assumption Antipolo this year, she would just frequently meet this cute, little boy whenever we'd go to HEdCen for Kumon. Oftentimes, we would see him come in the Kumon Center to make some noise and quite tolerable behavior just to make notice to my sister. Mind you, even the teachers see that and no, we have nothing against them. Truth is, we even invite the little boy to sit close to or even next to Lexi. We just find them cute-- My First Love in Preschool.


If you ask me, these little kiddos do know something about love-- though not necessarily that romantic, they still know something about it, atleast. There was this time when suddenly, out of the blue, I asked how my sister's life was going-- I wasn't thinking about her "love life" but rather, about school. I thought she'd answer something closely related to school. But no, guess what she said. "Ate, ex ko na si (name of little boy here)." I tried my best not to laugh in front of her so I asked her, right away, the reason why. She said, "Kasi, may iba na siyang kasama na girl eh." After this, I had nothing more to say. I just smiled and exited the scene, leaving her staring blankly into an open space.


After a couple of days, Lexi got over with her so-called relationship with this little boy-- if ever it was legal. At home, she would bravely say, "Mom, Dad, ex ko na si (name of little boy here)." The 'rents tried to hide their laughter and Mom explained to her about relationships and ex's. Mom clarified that she couldn't have an ex yet because (1) Dad might have chased this guy with a shotgun once she found out he was courting her favorite little girl; and (2) they weren't in a relationship yet. But Lexi, still persistent, considered this little boy as her ex-- her very first ex-boyfriend in pre-school.


I don't know if she really got over their "break-up" easily but it seems to me she's somehow coping up with the changes both in school and her *clears throat* lovelife. Despite all the things that happened, I know that Lexi still had a special place for that little guy which is (guess where..) in her new, self-painted treasure box (complete with a lock). Once you open it, you'll find a drawing of that little guy with something written under it which proudly states, "I love (name of little boy here)." She happily showed her "masterpiece" to everyone in the house.


The story above is mainly about First Love in Preschool by Lexi and (name of little boy here). I didn't know, that as early as 5 year old, you could get through a lot and learn about love. How inspiring their story is to me. I wish I also had a little crush in preschool who would give me presents every day. Damn it, I'm really hopeless.


Today's the soiree-- only selected people from the batch though. I wasn't allowed because there wasn't any adult's supervision and you know how strict my parents are when it comes to hanging out with unknown people, specially of the opposite sex. Not that their anti-social, they just wanted to keep me away from harm-- if ever there really is. Although, honestly, I would have wanted to come simply because, my friends attended and I'm the only loser who was left behind. Dumm-o.


Nonetheless, my Mom made it up to me. She took me to Galleria today and since everything was on sale, I'm happy to say, we didn't just window shop. We did the actual shopping routine normal people would do during sales. I got new tops from SWNN, Benetton, Kamiseta and the like. Then, we also got toys: I got BopIt and two Tomy car models. (I confess, I really like cars, specially race cars. I really want to be a racer but Mom disagrees. I guess she just doesn't want to see me get hurt.) Mom eventually got hooked to playing BopIt after I first asked her to try it-- now, you'd see it in her hands.


Anyway, I still have no recent updates about the soiree. I'd probably ask Camille or Gian about it some time soon. I'm sure they all had fun. I wish I'd come. Needless to say, we'll probably be having a soiree as a class-- an interaction between AA's I-4 and Ateneo's I-J. No specific date and venue yet but I left Mico to plan all about it. :P So eeeevil.