week 1 in dumaguete

day 2


make myself feel better by fixing up my room-- something i can find comfort in and feel proud about. finally, starting from scratch with a place of my own. and of course, wonderful God that i have, just as i finish taking photos of my new sanctuary, i get a text from the department head telling me i have a slot for a teaching fellowship! nervous about teaching, and college zoology lab at that, but i don't say no to a challenge, especially if it's something i'm afraid of. and at last, i can enroll.


grocery for breakfast food and buy a trash can for my room. have a dilemma--blue, basic one, or red and yellow one (to match my floor and laundry basket) that costs twice as much. at the last minute, beauty wins over budget.


day 3


i finally get to attend the class i missed; talking to my classmates, with whom i have different things in common with. and the teacher who tells me to shift to environmental science is actaully funny, in a wry way, which is doubly funny for me. my first subject is principles of systematics, and i don't care what she says about my having more options if i DON'T take marine biology. this is exactly what i want to learn, what i'm learning about now.


talk to the program head about my lab class, which i'm supposed to start the next day. enrolling is a bit confusing here, because people tell you different things, and they don't tell you what you need to know all at once. good thing that with my faith now, i'm patient enough to just do what i need to do without stressing myself thinking about how they could be more helpful (like in college...). and fortunately, old enough to have the humility to admit that i don't know everything.


by 3 pm, i finish enrolling and instantly get my ID! ecstatic =) haven't had an ID in a long while, not even when i was working in the real world for six years =P


get an expensive (but blah =P) haircut, and practice the lab exercise i'm supposed to teach before going to my last class.


day 4


spend the whole morning and the night before preparing my "speech" for class, as well as studying the next lab exercises. i'm terrified of teaching, i really am. but i take comfort in the thought that what God leads us to, he will get us through. write down how many pages of outline and pray a lot.


in class, a german kid asks me if i just graduated. i tell him, no, that was a long time ago; i just look young. all in all, i guess college kids are easier to handle than Sunday school kids =)


 


indulging in internet now, so i don't store up too many stories. diving with a classmate tomorrow, then doing research for homework. two other subjects haven't started yet.


in dumaguete, it feels like summer all the time. and all is well with the world =)

Comments

  1. ...CariBBeaN WencH MaLaX SparroW...November 10, 2006 at 4:38 AM

    the ID's cute i should say (with the silliman hall and the miniportals to boot)!
    the last time i was there 'twas remarkable to finally see students wear their IDs everywhere they go in the campus.
    during our time our IDs are always in our wallets.

    and 'twould have been cool to have you as a bio lab instructor! would that be for bio 33?
    if you see professor paalan around, please extend my warmest regards (i hope she still remembers me)!

    see you on the 24th!

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  2. Crisanto CayonNovember 11, 2006 at 1:37 AM

    hi teacher Jeneen... hmmm... the writer speaks up in front! i wonder how it would be like to be in your class? hmmm... btw guys, mark Pacquiao-Morales fight -- Jeneen's prayer for that day is as big as a Pacquiao win! As for me, I pray for God to guide you as you search through the seas' deepest, for God to aid your eyes to continue to marvel at the seas' (and this earth's) creatures and resources with compassion, and for God to grant your heart's most important desires.

    my class begins in two weeks, and the email inviting me to a peace confab in Pamplona and Navarra has finally reached me. expediting visa processing...

    see u soon water scorpion!

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  3. Jeneen GarciaNovember 12, 2006 at 4:57 AM

    thanks cris =) seems like you're going on an even more exciting journey!

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  4. Jeneen GarciaNovember 17, 2006 at 5:22 AM

    hah, now you can't get in without an ID.


    and i'm actually quite strict because i was given specific instructions by ma'am janet about what to do and not to do in class, what i should never tolerate =P yep, bio 33 =) i had zoology in college, but the experiments i'm "teaching" now i did in high school only!

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