Balik College

Last Tuesday, Oct.16, was our Ministry Head's birthday. We had an overnight bonding at Ate Ann's place (beside Robinsons Imus). After eating fetuccine and sapin-sapin, we started the program for the birthday celebrant, that was around 11:00 pm.
- voice over (recorded messages from various COG workers)
- heart puzzle (each piece contains a short message for Ate Ann)
- candle lighting
- prayer
- movie marathon ("Celluar," part of "Final Destination 3")
Mae, Ate Thine and I slept at around 5:00 am (ung iba kasi start palang ng first film tulog na!).

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I woke up at 7:00 am...I need to go to work. I had my breakfast with some of my co-leaders (kwentuhan included). After several hours of discussing our team's concerns, I finally decided not to work that day.

At 2:00 pm, we went to Robinsons Imus and spent almost two hours at Tom's World (arcade).
We played...

• basketball (at first, sari-sarili kami ng ring. later on, tatlo na kami nila Charm at Hannah sa isang ring. haha! we need to score at least 50 to have another game)
• car racing (actually pag nag-aarchade ako, car race lang talaga ang nilalaro namin ng friend ko. I tried new games yesterday.)
• water gun (medyo non-sense ito sa totoo lang, babarilin mo lang ung mga gulay [target] hihi!)
• wild monkeys (there are monkeys na patutumbahin mo using small balls. you get tickets after)
• hockey (sobrang enjoy kami ni ate ann dito at nanalo sya...score: 3-5)
• bowling "kuno" (we had six balls per game. throw namin yung bola like sa bowling. aim is lumusot ung bola sa highest scored na butas.)
• piso game (di ko talaga alam yung name ng game pero ang gagawin is to insert a one-peso coin at hintayin kung saan tatapat ang coin. if it's in 10, you'll get 10 tickets, kung sa jackpot naman, you'll get 50)
• can alley (this was the the game I enjoyed the most gaya ni Ate Peps. Simple lang yung game. There's a can with cover, pag tumaas yung cover, shoot mo yung small balls. pag marami kang nalagay na bola sa loob, you get more tickets. so ang technique namin ay magtulungan sa paghakot ng bola at sabay sabay ihagis sa can pag-open ng cover. sobrang sakit ng tiyan namin katatawa! nauubos nga namin lahat ng bola. Pag naubos na namin lahat ng bola, tatawagin namin yung staff tapos dadakutin naman nya lahat at ilalabas uli.haha! sabi nya nga, "Pa'nong hindi mauubos eh pinagtutulungan nyo kasi..." parang masama pa loob. hahaha!)
• biking (four lang samin ang nag-try nito, ako hindi kasi mukang nakakapagod masyado. bike race naman sya, as in magpepedal ka. Si Mitch at Mae nga, akalain mong magpaa! Si Ate Ann at Ate Peps naman, medyo pa-girl and pagpepedal. after that, nagsakitan mga legs nila. hay, we discovered another way of having our warm-up! hanggang sa archade ba naman?! hihi)

- Magbubump car sana kami kaso hindi pala pwede ang slippers (we are all in slippers!). After that, kodakan kami sa may Coffee stall dun and took out a pan of pizza at bumalik na kina Ate Ann. Nauna na kami ni Hannah umuwi kasi manonood pa sila ng movie.

I just missed my college days when there were semestral breaks. Feeling ko yesterday college student din ako at nakikisem-break ako sa kanila! hahaha! Thank God for that opportunity to have a bonding with my co-leaders.