got the joy back
Just finished my first Philo class with MIGUEL DE JESUS!!! WHEEE!!! I'm so glad to be out of Fr. David's class. Actually, when I came to school to get my load rev'n form this Saturday, the department had just moved me to his earlier class. But I had explicitly put in my schedule that I couldn't make it to the earlier class because of training (a perfectly valid excuse because I do really want to do dragonboat rowing again, but I probably won't) so I was quite upset. I went into the department looking like a lost sheep until this man came in, carrying a sheaf of load revision forms and he was signing them on the secretary's desk. Then he goes to me and asks, "Can I help you?"
I figured he must be the department chair, so I was quite ecstatic even for the possibility to talk to him and plead my case. So I explain how it's conflict with my possible-rowing training and my new lllustration class, and he brought me into his office to check if it was so. Anyway, so he tried getting me into one of the open classes (de Jesus' class had 0 slots open, but this was better than the negative digits on most other profs') but I explained that all the open classes (even in the other Philo course) were conflicting with mine. So I sweetly said, "Sir, look at that class (didn't mention de Jesus' name, lest he think I'm interested in the teacher, not the schedule), 0 ang slots, ung iba overloaded na pero yan hindi pa. And look! The time is perfect! (Didn't mention that I had a class at that time that I could easily reschedule because it's in my home dept) I have a class before that! Sir, dyan nalang po!"
Ainsi, I got into de Jesus's class! And I'm so happpeeee!!!! :D Thank you, God!!!
So my sched is as follows:
MWF
8:30-9:30 :: MIS 141 with Olpoc --> very good!
9:30-10:30 :: Philo 104 with de Jesus --> very good!
1:30-2:30 :: Theo 141 with Tejido --> the lesser of many evils
2:30-3:30 :: French 5 with M. Soriano --> the only one teaching this course this year, so no choice
TTH : 10:30-12:00 :: ILLUSTRATION!!! --> fun, fun, fun!!!
T only : 4:30-7:30 :: ITM122x (Management Games) --> should be fun
Th only : 6:00-9:00 :: MIS131 with Rodriguez --> good prof and I love my group!
This year is looking good! Quatro na 'to!
Sat morning went to my first day of ENLI Youth (I started VLI in my sophie year but didn't get to finish coz of dragonboat training). It was fun, waaaay more fun than VLI in QC. Met Pastor Luther's two daughters, Arky and Mikee, who are really nice. We got on so well that at the end of the first day we were practically planning for a Baguio trip in the middle of August (just in time for QC day).
That afternoon after finished dancing about in glee after getting into deJesus's philo class, JenSomeone and the somebodies had our first practice with our drummer, Andrei, Raygen's disciple. He's quite good and he picks things up fast. We practiced in this studio near Jen's house and it was kinda loud, but fun. And the owner, Ray Amigo, was recording! When we were packing up, he played back our practice run of "Kaya 'to", our hyperactivating Tagalog song, and we sounded pretty darn good for a first practice with a drummer and in a studio!!! We miss Bombi, our percussionist. He's busy with work as a director for the month...
After practice went to Fete de la Musique in Ortigas. Man, it was so packed. Wanted to go to the World/Ska/Reggae stage but it was shoulder-to-shoulder, and oh-so-sweaty. Sayang... And didn't see that much music because we were trying to dodge the crowds half the time. Around 1/2 am we moved to Megamall, Aeo treated Jen and me to some cold drinks and we waited for Rommel from Barbie's cradle to join us. When he finally did, Jen and I helped him plan for his proposal to this girl in Denmark. I succumbed to a major kilig moment, which was quite embarrassing. Then Rommel drove me and Jen to T.Morato as I was spending the night at her place. We had some food at the McDo near Jen's house before finally crashing for the night at around 4am.
Sunday we went to Church and I got dropped off at the Bonifacio-Moraleses place, where I made up for the 4ish hours of sleep from the night before. The rest of the time I was hyperexcited for the next day, (today) my first day of school with a finalized (and oh-so-yummilicious) sched.
I'M SO HAPPY! And although I hate to say that it took circumstances to change my bad mood of the past month so far (because after all joy isn't circumstantial), I've got my joy and peace back!!! Wheeeeee!!!
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