JAMMIN'....JAMMIN' to the beat of my heart!
It would be kind of belittling if we say we had the time of our lives at the Loreto Convent Reunion. We had the BEST time of our lives when 30 of us(around 3 juniors, 3 of us from our batch and the rest all seniors) from Guwahati, Shillong, Nagaland and Mizoram got together and danced to the tunes of Abba and BoneyM. It was a frenzy as we clicked pictures, ate, drank, sang and screamed till someone said, "Our nuns back in school would have been ashamed of us girls."
Oh, well, never mind all that now. We just needed what we would say, "Letting our hair down and putting our feet up (almost literally!)". It was tough for us to part at the end of the reunion where we sang the Anthem and got goose-bumps. It was an evening we were all going to remember for quite some time now.
However, when we hugged each other and bade goodbye, we knew we were meeting sooner than we said, "Loreto Convent."
The Anthem
To East and West of that fair Isle
Where the first Loreto stands,
Loreto's banner now doth fly in many distant lands,
In sunny Spain, on Afric's strand and
Under the Southern Cross
And westward ho, where rainbow hued
Niagara's waters toss.
Chorus: Loreto's banner gaily floats
In lands both East and West
Loreto's name each girl reveres
And holds it ever blest.
But first Loreto found a home beneath our Indian skies
Where now o'er plain and mountain peak
The well loved banner flies.
Loreto's standard bearers we
In girlhood springtime gay
O may we e'er be loyal and true
To the school friends of today.
Chorus:
And when our school days ended are
And our varied paths divide
O may the ideals of our youth
Still ever be our guide;
High ideals of purity, of duty and of truth
Learnt while we bore Loreto's flag
In the sunny days of youth
Chorus....
