Back home from my community service..
I’m now back home after the weekend community service-slash-advocacy program we were required by the university to finish. We all have 4 required community services for each religion subject we have to take to be able to graduate, and that was the last community service for me (hopefully if I do pass the subject hehe which I pray I will). I wasn’t expecting that I’d enjoy it actually since I went there alone. All my friends have graduated as some of you might remember, so I felt quite sad and alone. However, I seriously had a great time. I wasn’t expecting to find and meet new friends but I did and that is one of the reasons why CELL will always be a memorable place for me aside from the things I saw and learned there.
There I met Jackie, Betsy, Kath, Madz, Mikee and JB who became my groupmates. It was a seriously fun group. 
Although most of us just became groupmates at the center itself, one would think we were friends even before we went there. The tasks we were asked to do became easy because each of us helped and made the experience fun in each of our own quirky ways.
I will always remember Jackie as “Mayora”, the leader of our group who never ceases to amaze people when she talks about everything (especially the ghost in speedbytes), next she pretty much knows everyone (say their name and she probably knows them) and you wont forget her cute Spongebob bandaids. Betsy who is Jackie’s best friend will be remembered as “Chicken”. xD She’s afraid of living chickens and I think that was the reason why I became part of their group. We were on the tour and while we were at zone 2, we were all laughing when Betsy said she was afraid of chickens and that was when I got to know them both. Madz and Kath are usually together, you’d rarely see them apart. I first saw them during the orientation three days before we left for Silang but I didn’t knew them then. They were with us during the tour and they were also in Jackie’s group so I got to know them more during the groupwork periods. I’d remember Madz for the dining table laughter, especially the inside joke about cauldrons and such and zone 5. Kath on the other hand would be remembered for being a good friend. I was feeling quite sick yesterday and she was really nice offering to go with me to the washroom and even fan me when I was feeling lightheaded. Mikee and JB, the lovebirds, would be remembered for their gameness in everything we did.
JB along with Madz were the stars in our first groupwork. Our group was assigned the water element, and we thought about water crisis as our photo-topic. So pictures of pail and “tabo” armed JB, Madz and the rest lined up at the pozo negro. Eating time would not be the same without the group. We had fun talking and chatting as we ate together sharing the most random stories we can think of (a lot of times though the stories went to the zone 5 direction where the unknown and wildlife existed). We came with a scrapbook and a website for our advocacy project.
I’ll be including a link to the website as soon as I finish tweaking it. There’s still tons of improvements that must be done in terms of the content. Image-wise we’ve got lots of it. xD I’d also be sharing the experience I’ve had of the center on another post. That one would be more descriptive of the center and the environmental advocacies they have.
Most of the pics we took were to be used for our advocacy project so this is our only group picture:
[Image taken at Brennan Hall]
(From left to right: Kath, Mikee, JB, (our scrapbook!), Betsy, Jackie, Madz and Me)
Meet Mr. Frodo (Kuya Ef’s dog)
He won’t keep still so this is the only decent picture I was able to take.
This is part of our water issue presentation. I was taking the pictures so I wasn’t in line. 
Lookie! I’ve got a worm on my hand!
This is one of the blue worms which helps in the vermiculture. It felt gummy on my hands and it tickled when it moved. Kuya Leo calls it the “gummy worms”. Haha.
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