The Essence of A Boring Life (is none!)

Finally, i see a meaning to my being here. Char ba lang! Well, ...to do something out of the ordinary, that is.

Next month, before Valentine's day (i don't care if they scheduled it on that very day, i wouldn't really miss a thing. duh!) we will be visiting one of the home cares here. Last night as we discussed our plans for TF Foundation's series of projects I was like this is life (i mean my life).

The home care visit will really be exciting 'cause we will be giving flowers, religious stuffs, other provisions, to old people in Hospicio de San Jose, Barili. And a tv set, too, 'cause we gathered they only have one there and those people, as old as they are, still quarrel over GMA and ABS-CBN. Hmp! (pang Banatanay ang show sa mga lola.)

We will also be preparing games for them like palo-sebo, sack race, five-meter fun-run, swimming, etc. But, I was only joking.

But the most exciting thing will be the trip to Sibonga (that's several kilometers south of Cebu). It's not the trip actually, but what the group is set to do. We will be acting like Mel Tiangco there. Noooo, not in her Magpakailanman show! But the Kapuso Foundation chuva.

Our Gen Manager, Sir Bhoy, got it that there is one school there, in an upland part of the town, which has no proper chairs and desks for pupils.

He first came to the place to supposedly turn over the Dream Satellite unit (with a tv set) but was shocked to see that the rooms the children were in were actually not fit to hold classes. Of the six rooms, only one is "new" but with holes on the roof, while the rest are either rundown or unfinished.

And the kids use empty paint cans as chairs while their desks are the typical long benches we normally see in the side of the streets occupied by tambays.

Our GM just couldn't afford to give them their DS while they suffer from some politician's idea of political will, and he heard that of the six teachers for the six grades one would be leaving soon (samot!). So there...

I am a part of the team assigned to "assess" the situation. By February, we shall have a list of what to do with the place, so we should go and see the place before then (yey!).

Nevertheless, we know what it needs. We suggested we bring ready-made products but because the place was so far from the civilazation that even vehicles, if they had minds of their own, would really back out, we agreed to bring raw materials instead and just do the carpentry :P. Of course, real pandays would be hired, too, or we would probably be stuck there for the next months and still accoplishing nothing (aw, kimay nga mga tudlo sigurado!)

And, we will also go mountain climbing. YAHOOOO! We will be planting trees (God save Ms Eleanor, our copy ed) in June. Ms Eleanor (also a mountaineer) told us the mountain was really steep. Ah, mountain declining without much effot :P

Hmmm...now that's what I call life.