Saturday, December 11, 2004
Luck was not by my side
I just finished taking a bath. Weird right? I mean taking into consideration that I just took a bath oh say about 6 hours ago? Let's just say that I have a valid reason for doing it. I mean if you smell like rotten vegetables with a combination of exhaust fumes, I do believe you would also do what I did.
Okay recap of what happened for me to do such a hygenic thing. Today's our first NSTP meeting. Since it was the first, and my best friend was going to hitch with me, we went there realtively earlier than what was expected. We waited for about 30 mins before we were officially called to board pur jeeps. I was really excited, well since we were like going on a read trip. I was thinking that whatever we would do was comparable to what we did back in our CAT days in fourth year
So we arrived at the school. It was found in Payatas so you can just imagine what the surroundings (not to mention the smell) was like. We waited for about an hour there, just standing and being idle. Then we found out that we were in the wrong school!!! Can you imagine? we wasted an hour doing nothing because the driver of the jeep followed the wrong directions. So we waited again for half an hour for the jeeps in our school to fetch us. So we had to take another trip into the dirty, smelly and smokey highway
But at last we arrived. It was really an adventure, we were like a part of the amazing race. But it was also a little scary, coz the school that we were assingned to was only 100 meters away from the dump site. It was really risky to leave there. The people that inhabit that place are not what you would like to be friends with. I'm not saying that they're not nice but their upbringing and ways are very different from what we are accustomed to. And the smell!!! God...I think it came from the combination of rotten food with a little of this and that that were already passed their expiration dates
Since we were late, the Skills training started late arround 1030. Meaning that I had been awake for 5 hours already!!! Ugh...then they gave these talks on how to know if the kid is not ready to read and it was sooooooooooo...majorly boring. Good thing our faci told the teachers that thay had to cut it and let us eat. I was so lethargic with the lack of food ( because the last thing I ate was oh five hours ago) that I might have fallen asleep in the middle of there instructions. Then finally we went home.
So there you have it...my amazing day that ended in tragedy...oh well there's still tom.
