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Friday, December 17, 2004

Hellooo all! yayness, my first entry ever in my new blog! ;) Well, school has finally ended, and the start of my nice and much-awaited long slumbers has now begun. Our last day was on wednesday, and before our christmas party, some of us seniors had duty for CAT. The kids from OB's pagsasarili schools came over, it's part of this "project kaibigan" thing that we have annually and we had to take care of them, make sure they had a good time, an sorta be their yaya's for the day. hehehehe :) I've always wanted to help out in these kinds of things, like hands on manila and stuff, but never got the chance to, so now i was really excited! We were gonna be assigned 10 kids each, but i only ended up getting 8 kasi kulang yung iba. Anyways, so i brought them up to the grade 4 classrooms where they were gonna join the christmas party of the 4th graders. They were about 5 to 6 years old, and they were so cute! yay,more hobbit friends more me,hehehe.... we had to spread them out in all the classes, eh nagkulang nanaman, so they got 4 kids from me. Aww, so now i only had 4 narin. But then i realized that was actually a blessing coz these kids were so makulit! every 5 minutes or so, one of them had to go to the bathroom, and i was like, "Uh...ok,sige punta tayo.." and so, unlike the other cadets that were with me on that floor, i braved the boys' bathroom. (The others would just make them use the girls' bathroom, now why didn't i think of that?!) And being the plague or curse that i am, some guy would always enter the bathroom when i was there waiting for my kid to finish his business. Oh,Tricia. Anyways, while we were in the party of the 4th graders, it suddenly struck me how different the times have become. The kids dressed up like teenagers, and the songs they were playing were puro Usher and r&b stuff! Geez, when i was in grade 4, i was into the spice girls and backstreet boys and stuff.haha. Well, when i was at the side of the classroom watching them, this boy comes up to me. "Hi highschool!" he says. "are you a senior?" "Um, yeah..why?" i reply. "Ooooh, do you know Jasmine Balbutin?" he asks. Yeees naman, my bestfriend seems to be popular among the gradeschoolers, as a lot of them seem to know her. So i find out he plays the violin as well, and he tells me all about his life, his favorite composers, his favorite TV shows and books,what he wants to take up in college and so on. Wow, buti pa siya, he knows what he wants! hehehe, and then he asks me if i had a sister and a brother. I tell him i do and that i'm the youngest, and he clasps his hands together and tilts his head and goes, "ooooh,me too! i have 3 older brothers though, and it's so yucky coz their all obese. Well, excpet for my 19-year old brother, he's the only slim one.He's my favorite" and again with the matching clasp of the hands and tilting of the head. And during the whole time that i was trying to entertain my kids and make sure they were ok, this guy just kept telling me more and more stuff, like how he wants to change his name to Raven in honor of his favorite tv show and how he wants to open up his 3rd eye and see ghosts and stuff. Well, he was certainly a character i'll never forget! atleast he kept me from boredom, hehe.
Anyways, by this time, my 4 "alagas" have been to the bathroom 3 times each, which means 12 visits to the boys bathroom for me. I'm just thankful it wasn't the bathroom of the highschool guys, coz it smells like nothing i have ever known in there. Well, atleast they have developed a new nickname for me, they started calling me "ate patty". I figured 'patricia' was too long, and 'tricia' was nakaka-bulol, so i just told them to call me ate pat...which they eventually turned into ate patty. hehe,it's kinda cute! Well, they started getting restless and started going in and out of the classroom and i had to keep making them come back in, until finally it was time for them to go up to the gym where they would have their own christmas party with the rest of the pagsasarili kids. Then there was 1 kid who i think got separated from his group and his 'ate', probably coz he was so makulit, so i let him join my group. And so we meet Stephen, the most hyper-active kid among my alagas. He and German, one of the kids who keep going to the bathroom, were the pinakamadaldal ones, but i didnt mind at all. :) Up at the gym, we let them watch this christmas cartoon, then christmas presentations from the primary and intermediate glee clubs (thank goodness we weren't part of that anymore), then games and giving away of gifts. anyway, as it was nearing the end, i sat in between them all, and it felt so good just to be among them and stuff, like having little brothers and sisters talaga. We almost cried when it was time for them to go home, we started getting attached to them na and everything!hehehe.... wala lang, after that we changed and had our class christmas party, as the one with the batch got cancelled. oh well. yun lang....

hmmm....was supposed to go out somewhere tonight! or even today rather! but due to annoying schedules, i'm gonna be somewhere i dont really wanna be in. arrrrgh. sigh....
will blog again soon. :) in case i cant blog on the day itself, which im pretty sure i wont, Merry Christmas everyone!!!! :)

tricia grew up at 10:46 AM

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