the story of my day

The morning was filled with expectations and excitement for the task to come. We were so ready to take on the challenge of a community assembly which our class organized. Everything from the food, tablecloth, dissemination, freebies, presentations and visual aids was prepared with great care.

Our efforts were not wasted because WE ROCKED!

Our guest instructors told us that the event was a success!

Well of course not everything came perfectly.

There was the teeny-tiny problem of the time for starting.

It was quite annoying since we told the residents that we’d start at 9.30am but they changed the time to 9.00am! So we have to go back and inform them AGAIN! It’s quite tiring, really, really tiring to go climbing up mountains, I didn’t want to go and return sweaty so Evan and me went to the place with the monkey. Surprise, surprise…we found the native twins (Sheilla and Honey) chiilin’ at the top of the hill, in the shaded area of course! And some of our classmates were also hanging out in the store, eating and drinking junk. We joined them, of course, we can’t resist Super Crunch and Ding Dongs.

My only regret was that we couldn’t stay at the videoke place (2 songs for p5.00!!!!) since we’d be heard over at the basketball court.

 

---program begins here---

There were only three notable things about the program,

First

The “Single Ladies” dance presentation of Mars, Jim and Doms

Second

The “Balot” commercial, it’s classic (since first year!)

Third

Chelle and Charly’s Reflection dance interpretation…very amusing! 

 

Three annoying things that happened

first

lack of seats

second

untimely handing out of snacks, grrr, most of them are

goblins indeed!

third

i only got one sandwich! hmpf!

oh, there’s a fourth one!

My nametag that says, “Hi, I’m Carma…group leader” embarrassing! (*because it means I have to work and pretend to be responsible, heheh*)

 

 

It ended quite well, one of my clients received a prize! Yehy! Good for her!

Went home tired and happy and ignorant of what will come in the afternoon…doom-doom-doom…

Hahah, so I came in quite early and Karen and me went out to do our daily ritual of buying food. We met Sheilla the native, Jordell the sleepy, Princess of jellyfish and Aia, who we tried to fool…and we ended up as fools indeed when we came back to the room, bearing halo-halo and iced teas. The door was closed, I opened it and grinned happily at everyone (they were so few..) Suddenly, V told us to “do not enter the room”. She was quite insistent about it, sending some boys to close the unclosable doors but we were okay with it…heheh, we knew there were others coming. They did come and we outnumbered the people inside the room! SO we loitered in the lobby and played pranks on the peopel inside who were trying not to laugh at our antics. We had a photo shoot right there until V lost her temper and told us to stay away from the lobby.

We are obedient children so we loitered in the stairs and continued our photo shoot! (and dissed HER)

We we were so not concerned about missing that! It was more eventful outside, the people inside were just eating egg sandwiches (leftovers from our CA).

In conclusion, It was a GREAT day!

xoxo

period

So, i finally got over the blues. It’s the stage I have to go through every time i have my period. I wonder why it’s called a period anyway, it implies something different. The term is not enough to describe the discomfort of the whole thing. It is one of the banes of womanhood; aside from pregnancy and boobs (It’s not fair! Boys should get bigger boobs too! *kidding*)

The experience is alike to a phoenix…hah!

Not really, it’s just a pretty horrible time for me. People seeing the sulky, moody, wet blanket side of me. I am myself, still. But not the cheerful, ready for battle, tactless (geesh…) and fun loving Carma. Just the horrible girl who just wants to stay in a corner and brood.

Ah, well.

Activities of the day:

6.10am woke up

6.11am napping

6.15am stood up dizzily to go and bath sleepily

6.30am stood around dreamily

6.35am daily girly stuff

6.50am get out of room

7.01am arrived at classroom

7.03am fights, gossip, teasing, waiting

7.30am the SO vs. SV debate

7.50am SO won, well of course, he’s hot! i was rooting for him!

8.30am? jeepney ride

8.35am thrill ride!!!

8.45am health center

8.50am boring ride downhill

9.20am arrived at laguerta

9.30am information dissemination

10.15am return

11.30am the (*&09% jeepney is late

11.50am school, thank god!

12.05pm maimah brings lechon and the roll-y thing

12.30-3pm forgettable events

4.05pm SO time!

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5.48pm home!

6.20pm laundry

6.40pm LFD

6.47pm blogging

6.57pm fin!

xoxo

glimpse of busay!

Second helpings…

After the momentous first day of duty, we realized that this day is GIGANTIC in proportions. We were so unprepared for what we encountered that our mouths dropped open in surprise, along with our lungs, as we saw the steep road downhill. ARE WE REALLY GONNA GO THERE? Of course, we have to. We were excited to see what’s in store for us today that we embarked on our adventure with wide grins and laughter in every step…NOT! We were too breathless and cautious of rolling downhill to even care! Alright, so maybe our shoes aren’t up to do the job but we had on heavy bags plus the CHN kit which was useless, btw.

With every downhill, there’s an uphill, a very UP-hill. We’re climbing to glory and the end of our journey, the sitio is just on the other side of the hill…not! We have to find the river which leads to the place…and it’s not appearing! Does this river exist? Or is it just the figment of our guide’s imagination? But the view was wonderful and so we trudged on like little Dora’s without Boots and a stationary backpack to go. The houses we passed by were pretty examples of great architecture…I’m way overboard but you’ll have to see it to believe it! It seems that every house has a car! You must be rich to live in a place like that! (or else, surrender yourself to riding the habal-habal) The houses became lesser as we went on and finally, finally…we see a, wait a minute is that a stream?!? Or a very minute example of one. But we see that it leads to our sitio! FINALLY! WE HAVE ARRIVED (after hours-it seemed like hours-of grueling walking, trudging, complaining, sweating, panting)

We rested at the main square (?!) of the area, but surprise, surprise…our CI pointed to a vertical, I swear it’s vertical, climb and said that we have to do an ocular survey of the whole area. We groaned aloud. Will our feet be up to the job? Of course, it is! That’s what feet are made for, climbing vertical places. As we climbed, we looked like hunchbacks doing mountain or more like wall climbing, only we don’t have the right equipment. Along the way we met a chicken, and the damned thing flew right at us! We screamed and held the person in front of us before we toppled over like dominoes towards the foot of the hill. We reached the top and climbed down again. We survived! (thank god!) and we’re still alive (barely).

After resting again, the time of reckoning has come, the way back is faced with two choices of transportation, each as perilous as the other. First, walk and Second, ride the habal-habal. Well, of course we’re not stupid! We’d be triple dead if tried walking that route again! So we rode the infamous habal-habal for only p10 per person! The mounting part was a bit difficult and I was assisted by my-almost-soon-to-be-crush, sV. He is such a gentleman! And btw, he didn’t even sweat it out the way we did during the perilous climbs! He looks so cute! Desperaux kind of cute.

The end of our second morning arrived quickly, but I really wanted to make the moment last a little longer (the sV moment! not the climbing part!)

And, btw, we will be doing that every day for 5 more weeks.

Survivor style much?!

Hope to survive all the way…

xoxo

first day firsts!

COPAR! Ready to go and conquer it all!

I’m writing this on the second day so my memoirs of what occurred may be sketchy…Events on the second day managed to outshine whatever things we did!

Busay is wonderful! It’s like this mountain with perfect road conditions and the view is magnificent. To see the whole city of Cebu lay out like that is amazing…makes your feel like you’re on top of the world…or of Cebu!

Aside from that, we also saw magnificent houses of the rich…we were filled with envy! One day, we’re going to own one just like that, or maybe even better than that!

It was my first time to be up there! Also my first time to walk with sV and even ride next to him on the jeepney!

Hmmm…I can’t recall most of what happened so I’ll let the pictures show say it all (or some of them, anyway)