ariellalisan.org – Homeward Bound

AND WE are now an official badminton club! We can now use our town’s gymnasium. When we stated, we’re just playing in front our our municipal hall. Although we dind’t have problems with the place, having it in the gymnasium is more comfortable. Plus, it gives us security that whatever the weather, we can go on with our fitness activity.

When I get my payday advance, I will buy a new Yonex. Mine is very old. I started using it when I was in gradeschool. Haha.

NO, I am not currently in conflict with anyone at work and I hope it will be like that for the rest of my stay here.

I’d just like to write now about how I was able to avoid conflicts with my co-teachers in my first year of teaching. Here are the five thoughts I always keep in my mind:

1. Know where you stand. I have to always keep in mind that I am a newly hired member of the faculty, which means, I should not assume that I know the subculture within the group. I should listen to my superiors and be always willing to learn. Later on, I could start making a difference once I am able to establish my identity.

WHAT A creative title! (Harhar!) But that is exactly what this post is about. Let me tell you what I’m into these days.

THE BLOGGING SEMINAR. It’s still not very clear up to this day. Loreen and I are working hard for this in preparation for the Mindanao Bloggers Summit 2, which will be held in GenSan on October 25. What is good is that we’ve now found a partner organization. However, our contact person is not as enthusiastic as we are about this project. He’s quite hesitant and pessimistic. But, of course, we won’t allow to be influenced. We will influence him, instead. There are plenty of problems like venue and availability of speakers. But we hope to settle things as soon as possible.

THE CHOIR COMPETITION. I attended our practice this afternoon. Yes, our church choir is joining a competition, which is part of my town’s (Alabel, Sarangani Province) 37th Foundation Anniversary, called Kasadyaan Festival.

IT COULD just be paranoia but we could never risk the safety of our children.

12:52 PM Our principal called for an emergency meeting, the second meeting we had today that zeroed in on matters of safety and security. The schools has received calls that messages were circulating about schools in General Santos City whose students and teachers were hostaged. We were not very sure of the report but for the reason that we have to secure the safety of our students, we have decided to send them home.

I’M VERY glad, you know, that I’m not the only one who’s getting more and more excited to learn about physics. Some of my students are sometimes overly excited about the topics we’re discussing and some future topics I asked them to start reading about.

I think it’s just fine to talk about my students in this blog.

There’s my student named Gwenathan who would always ask me questions from time to time, asking me to explain this phenomena, that equation, etc. I admit, I’ve never been that interested in physics when I was in high school. I was just amused when I was able to figure out the Bernoulli equation back then and what it meant. But Gwenathan is different. He comes up to me during my free time (and sometimes, even when I’m having my lectures in other classes) to ask questions. Wouldn’t you be glad to have a student like that?