It's been a long time since it happened.
Our Lord's Grace Montessori (Formerly Our Lady of Grace Montessori) the place I went to grade school is no more.
When Jared told me it had closed down sometime May 2007 I thought Ok no biggie. I was too busy with life (read: LAW SCHOOL + Asia Cup) to be too concerned.
Now 19 months fast forward the reality has begun to sink in. Thanks to a friend of mine who lives out in Farview... este Fairview I've had a chance to pass Marcos Highway where my school was. Last time I saw it was just last monday 28 Dec 08. The buildings still looked intact except the perimeter had G.I. sheets on them. Apparently they began tearing it tearing it down in earnest yesterday. Supposedly the lot is going to be made into an SM.
Thanks to this guy KiiBeeN, who apparently is the brother of my GS batchmate, for posting videos of the demolition.
Somehow I feel a bit grieved at the loss of this school. I mean, I had a lot of happy memories and lots of not so good ones as well. Over all it was an ok place. Sure I could have asked for a more.. um.. challenging regimen for my GS but hey I liked the place.
OLGM was a pioneer in many ways. We had computers and typing class. To this day I'm still a 60-70 WPM typist because of our training which started as early as 1st grade. We also had HELE (Home Education and Livelihood Education) classes which were pretty old school but fun. How many Manila Private Schools can boasts that they taught thier GS kids farming, tocino making, carpentry and cooking? LOL. Then there was the pool, we had swimming classes there and I think that was one way I kept my weight down in grade school.
Anyway its gone. By the time anyone checks it out after reading this OLGM will probably look like any other demolition site. No nostalgic walks down memory lane for me. At least not for Grade School. Funny, its been 11 years (1997) since I graduated. I've never really bothered to look back. Until now.
Anybody here from OLGM?
I'd better go to Learning Tree soon and check it out before Teacher Francie decides to close that down too :(.
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HEY! I went there! But I don't remember much about it. I moved to America when I was five but my brothers and sister went there. And 2 of them graduated. And When I saw the video it made me saaad! I cried hella baad! Good memories there. How can they even do that! I mean why would thet demolish it? I mean if they wanted to make a mall or something out of it, they didn't have to demolish it right? It still pisses me off how they would do that. And it's SOOO FREAKIN SAAAD! ):<
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