ariellalisan.org – Homeward Bound

ON MONDAY until Wednesday, I will be scaling the heights of the mountains in my town for the post Christmas gift-giving dubbed as Tuloy and Pasko ng mga Bata.

I will go with the team composed of DepEd officials of Sarangani to distribute goods and to conduct?a fun day for the kids at Sitio Kiangkos, Brgy. Pag-Asa, Alabel, Sarangani Province.

The area is a mountainous place that is beyond the reach of vehicles. As I’ve heard, we have to walk about 5 hours on a steep trek to get to the place. So we actually set one day for the trip to the area and another one for the journey back home.

HERE ARE some of what I seek to accomplish this year:

For the Whole Year
1. Limit my consumption?of softdrinks to a maximum of 500mL per week
2. Avoid overeating
3. Spend at least 30 minutes each day in brisk walking
4. Have at least 5 hours of sleep each night
5. Prepare my lesson plans during weekends
6. Check quizzes?and activity sheets every afternoon
7. Save at least?1000 pesos each month
8. Find alternative income sources
9. Keep a daily planner
10. Read at least one book each month
11. Go out with friends at least once a month

WELCOME 2008!

I am finally saying good bye to the year that has just passed. But to start the new year, I think it’s just but good to take a look back at what had happened in the last 365 days. Let me call this my Yearender.

JAN-FEB – I started my 2007 with the question of whether I was cut for teaching or not. Then I started to love teaching and to find somebody to love. Then I found myself busy completing my requirements for graduation. In the midst of that, I was doing my duties to my fellow students. I performed at the Pathways benefit concert after getting sick.

WE HAD a little fun a few minutes past midnight last weekend at the flea market in GenSan’s Paskuhan Festival. All six of us, physics majors, decided to have a Christmas challenge where in 20 minutes?we had to buy gifts that only cost?20 pesos. The gift had to have a special meaning?to the recipient.

It was 12:08 on my watch when we started looking around and thinking what meanigful item I should buy. Luckily, there was a stall that sells items at only ten pesos but I found nothing interesting.

ANOTHER BAD news:

Marcie loses her wallet
Primary suspect: fellow LET passer

STILL PISSED?off with PRC, we decided to take our lunch after the chaos called Oathtaking Cermonies of Professional Teachers?last Saturday.

Just before we ordered, we realized that Marcie’s bag was missing. Not so long after, my friend and fellow physics major decided that she had left at the venue, so off she went with Ian.

She was crying when she answered my call, “I saw my bag but my wallet is missing.” She added that the bag was already open when she found it still perched on the chair she occupied several hours ago.