break me up

okay i needed a break...badly!

Friday
8:30pm. our GM's house watching White Chicks (for the second time)
we had to be there to prep for the next day's mission: a visit to a home care and an "abandoned" school

past 12pm
everyone was already snoring while i was still wide awake watching memoirs of a geisha (P100 saved)

almost 2am, sat.
i had to turn off the TV even if the film was not finished yet. had to wake up before 5

before 5am
no one was awake yet. great! go back to sleep

around 6
everyone was ready to leave and i was still in the bath: waaahhh

past 7am
on our way to Sibonga. go back to sleep. quick! thank God the weather is not hot.

around 9am, Sibonga elementary school
Us: "School?!"
Pupils: "who are you?"
the school's got no chairs, i mean proper chairs. its library, no books; there's this bodega converted into a classroom minus the blackboard, tables, chairs and teachers.
The barangay captain of that place is either not close to the congressman or a drug addict.
Us: "We'll be back."

10am. Hospicio de San Jose. Barili
old people all around us.
"Hi lola?"
"Gai ko pan?"
"Ngek! Duster raman ni amo dala." (meds pud diay)
"Di nata miga oi. Uli namo kaw!"
"Watch sa ko sa place ha?" (and proceeded touring the old place)

around 11am.
on the way to Moalboal. this is just a stop-over. yahooo!

past 12
swim swim. mmmm... (the best stop-over ever!)
life is really great here: boracay-like beach plus funny people with you.

GM: "picture! picture!"
owner of the resort: "Hoy! i am the owner. you are trespassing my property!"
Us: "picture ra gani mi."
owner: "What?!!"
Us: "Batig nawng!" (and off we went back to the neighboring resort where we were billeted)
(imagine Mel Tiangco walking in the beach while the song "Magpakailanman" is played. Yep, we did just that! and it was really relaxing to feel the grains of white sand massaging your feet. I just loooooved it! )

past 4pm
homeward bound
(the trip back home was like passing Dumanjug, Sibonga, Barili (not in order) for the nth time..and i was like "huh!" but at least the weather continued to be soooo cold that sleeping in the van was not difficult.)

6:30pm. Gaisano Tabunok
wala lang!

tomorrow, sunday
our GM has got loads of movies in his place and i took 3-(in exchange of my toothbrush i left in his place :( -for tomorrow.

i know, there's always life even without a toothbrush. anyway, tomorrow's my day off.