Warts and Storytelling

Got my warts on my face cauterized plus my killoids in my chest from skin asthma injected earlier. But before the cauterizing, the doctor had to anaethesia on my face then taped over the warts as a sort of marker. Hahah i looked funny. Tapes on my faces. hahaha

I forgot to blog my small achievement this week--
My classmates in children's literature voted me as the best storyteller in class so I get to be sponsored by the Department of Reading to the storytelling workshop this coming weekend--an event i have been anticipating and excited about for over a month now. Wahoo!!!

Plus, my Teaching in the early grades professor texted me and it seems like i will be the next student assitant of the department. Wahoo again!. The department head, Dr. Pado will be talking to me tomorrow. hmmmm... what about?

Weird hair cut

After our field work in bio 1 where we conducted several interviews in a school and under the Tuliahan bridge in Faiorview about the polluted tuilaan river, went straight to the gym then afterwards had my hair cut in Index Salon.

This is when i entered a wierd conversation.

Weird, the hairdresser after asking about my school, course, and what not siddenly talked about his valuesed teacher back in high school who was very good with all the awards and stuff but suddenly raped someone. Bothering and quite tragic, really. A liitle bit more and I would have freaked out. hehehehe. Weird.
Natakot tuloy ako, ganun ba talaga? Nakakabaliw ba o nakakawalang perspektibo ang pagtuturo?

Scary.

Anyways, as i told that wierd hairdresser, I will be a teacher beacuse I really want to be a teacher. that's that.

A long update

It has been a while since I posted a decent blog entry. So, here goes what things i did over the past week:

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FEB 17
My Lil Sis' Debut

(This picture taken by kuya Ronnie, the family photographer)

Held at Cecile's restaurant's cue room, it was a gathering where family, relatives, friends, classmates, schoolmates and choirmates came to eat hahahaha (so was my intention!).

With the 70's theme, there were dance, songs, and instrument playing numbers for my lil sis (who isn't lil anymore) which i'm pretty sure she really appreciated.

I can't imagine that me and my sister are almost past the teenage years. I can still imagine that day when the word "debut" was but a word in my vocabulary, without realizing what it really is all about, now its my sister having hers. (sighs).

Changes yet again.

Anyways, here are 5 cool things about her debut:

1. Food was, of course, great
2. Close family and friends came--the ususal 18 candles, 18, roses, and 18 wishes were very intimate and personalized by my sister ( i really liked the 18 wishes part where my sis introduced each of her good friends)
3. I didn't piok in my song number for my lil sis (angel by sarah machlachlan). haha. Imagine the confidence i had to sing in front of music majors!
4. The number and dances were like SOP and ASAP combined. Fun!
5. Met her dormates and classmates (whom she really loves so much) so now whenever she tells stories about them, i woulnd't have to imagine vague faces.

hay... i guess we do grow up.
I love my sis. Love you!
(",)

FEB 19
DEMO Teaching at UPIS

After weeks of prepartation (including 5 revisions of our lesson plan: LP and days ofr visual aid prep), I finally had my first ever demo teaching at the UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILPPINES INTEGRATED SCHOOL (UPIS) in the kinder level section sampaguita under teach Yvette.

Equipped with my 2 sems worth of knowledge from EDTEG 101 and 102, i struggled to keep them listening and focused on whatever it is we were teaching by applying the things i've learned. And as it is always, theory is way different from practice.

It was really hard. The first hour came as okay, with me starting off with a poem Five Little Monkeys then later telling them the story of our LP entitled Five Little Monkeys with Nothing to Do and so on. But when the second hour entered, slikes! They turned into rowdy little tykes!

I even had to get some sort of angry with them (but not really) trying my best to assert my authoriy over them which was really hard.

FEB 23
Watching 3 Performances All in One Day

2 recitals @ St. Scho's St. Cecilia's auditorium where my sister performed. We (ate Mean and I) then stayed for the second show to wacth my sister's friends whom we met at her debut.

She was as usual great--very confident, composed, relaxed. And as always, she closed her eyes while preforming, feelt her song and just hit her notes right--diggin' it.

NICE!

Then @ 7:30 pm went with Koro Stigmatino to watch the Ateneo College Glee club @ the Philamlife theater (where our MD is a guest member). Kinda cool. Great perfoamance but was a bit dragging for it was a straight LISTEN-TO-US-SING show. Wala lang, they sang. ehheeh. But they sounded great!

Had a late dinner in Kimono sumtin in blue wave, Macapagal Av.. Ordered Oyakudon which tasted great but was at a not- a-student-friendly price. My savings got depleted. Hehehe

demo teach: teach mike

had my first ever demo teaching sa UPIS kahapon
sobrang saya and exhausting both at the same time

kids were cute and lovabale pero rowdy and mischievous din
someone cried ihd to comfort him
soeomen got angry. i had to talk to him
someone was noisy, i had to reprimand him

basta ang saya
will be fixing this entry later
after weeks of prep time, especially the 5 days beofre the actual demo, pagod na akmi ehhehe
I enjoyed every bit of it though

hope to improve as a pedagogist

I love M&Ms

She asked me to do her a favor
I, of course, obliged
for she is she

She invited me to take a walk
Under a cool night sky, I, of course, obliged
For she is she

She asked if she could borrow books
choosing some of my best reads, I, of course, obliged
For she is she

She's nice, she's pretty, she's cool in every small way
For she is she
I'm weird, I'm confused, I'm struggling in every small way
But I'm me

The night was brief and everything has its end
I made up an excuse to walk her home
We talked, it felt good
I'm with her, she is she

She gave me M&Ms
sign of thanks, I suppose
I simply crashed
for she is she

I know she is up there
I know I'm down here, somewhere
I'm me

She is she

I'm happy just the way things are
I'm learning to be at least
I'm me, she is she
Things can't get cooler than that

I'm the ulitmate admirer

period at that

Don't you worry

For I'm me

I love M&Ms

For she is she

Black Valentines

What was supposed to be a red-shirt day for our ORG, turned to a black shirt day for me. I intentionally wore black today. Hahahaha. Yet, with clear shampoo's revolutionizing of black as the new red, i guess i didn't really make a statement.

I left UP right after class, ignoring every fratman-giving-roses-to-ladies-moments, went to grab a bite (chicken Hodog rice mix and 3 pieces of siomai) near my GYM, spent 2 and and a half hours at the gym (where there were only three of us working out that i almost asked them what they were doing there for i imagined i'll be all alone haha), bought a strawberry cream chupa chups (my fave), rode a jeep in the passenger's seat, closed my eyes and felt the wind on my face.

This was valentines for me.
Like it!

One Year Left

FAVE BIRTHDAY GREETING: JM! Happy 10th birthday! >>ate bernie

Luzsil's and Til's bday gift for me! THANKS 19...
hay, more changes i guess...
got one year left before I'm officialy out of the teen category...
I have just realized I am opressed...
because of what the church presupposes...
but I still love the LORD...
I will struggle more for You O. LORD...
faith isn't about doctrines...
faith isn't about what the church tells you it's about...
I still believe in the church though...
not entirely I guess...
anyways, thank GOD i was able to confess earlier...
my abosolution would take a long time however (SECRET!)
hay...

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Funny. hehe. I went to hear mass then confessed during my lunch break earlier so i came in 15 minutes late for my EDLR 101 class (which was very unusual for me). Suddenly my classmates sang the BIRTHDAY song while teach greeted me. Kakagulat. Yun pala ate Mhira, a friend and orgmate, told them. What was funnier was that teach told me that as a gift, she wouldn't note me late. How cool could things get?!

Had dinner sa Tempura Japanes Grill kanina sa SM Southmall Foodstrip ( a trying hard strip of bars and restos hahaha)n with my mom, dad, bro, and cousin (too bad my sister's still in her dorm.) Enjoyed the food with them as usual. I really love them. Hay... would never wnat to disappoint you to the point I'll keep everything to myself ( i guess that's the way i was made)

Fave expression of the day: WHATEV!
Thanks LORD!

Sa lahat ng bumati, orally and electronically, salamat talaga. Alam myo naman wala ako pang-reply hahahahaha!

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Week's summary

Week's summary:

-My TITO migrated ti New Zealand last tuesday. Hay, changes yet again--really hate them. Di na lalu kumpleto ang De la Paz, clan. We had dinner last sunday as some sort of despedida.
-was so surprised that I was one of the 10 students out of 59 who passed the bio 1 exam. Kinda weird actually.

-surprisingly, the exam in PI100 (the subject i soooo wanted to drop) was quite reasonable and wasn't like hell. I think i did pretty ok, so that's that.

-applied for membership in UPVC (University of the Philippines Volleyball Club) last Wednesday. We played, got pre-oriented, and was warned that we are up for intimidation, bullying and verbal abuse. Hay. So different from UPSCA. Hope I finish the app process. Masaya kasi maglaro ng Vball. Got my thumb sprained nga pala from a forceful joust at the net. I had it X-rayed and it turned out to be ok. All's well I guess.