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"Look for the good qualities and not the bad in everybody. There's a lot of good in the worst of us and a lot of bad in the best of us..."

HECTIC DAY: What a challenging day work was today. Today was my first real classroom experience being a teacher. It's different teaching SRE and stuff like that, cuz you dont ahve to worry bout takng kids to lunch and all that stuff. Anyway, this class is the type where you have to keep things simple, basic, and the same. So errday, it's pretty much the same routine for me, which I guess I don't really mind. Today, the teacher tells me 5 min. before lunch that she's going to pick her car up at the shop asked me to take them to lunch. I was kinda suprised being havent even been there for a week and shes leaving me alone w/the kids. Took me like 10 min. to get them ready for lunch, once she left they totally tried to take advantage of her being gone. Then Im in the lounge eating my lunch alone as usual then I couldnt remember wha time I was suppose to get the kids. I was pretty sure it was 12, but I wasnt for sure, so I went out at 12 and tried to round them all up. We get to the room and I realize one kid is missing ahh! I bring back outside and trying to get the last kid. We come back and then errthang starts to go crazy again, but praise God I was able to finally get some order in the room. Finally, once I had them working on something the teacher comes back praise God whew! The biggest challenge out of all this is the whole language barrier.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: Happy anniversary SH, 8 freakin' years wow! It was great ot see errone again at the party. Its juss crazy looking back on how SH has affected my life, the foundation of my faith. Where I grew up at, learned how to pray, learned how to really build a relationship with God. On top of all that, made a great group of people whom today I call, my amigos. The journey God takes you on sometimes, is pretty exciting, when we learn to juss completely give in to HIm and surrender. Even when we dont know how or realize that were doing it. Happy Anniversary SH, I pray for many more fruits to come! I love being charismatic!

THE FUTURE: Today at sPv for all the confirmation classes, we had 'youth forum' to discuss and gather ideas on how to get the youf more involved at the parish. Something many ministry leaders have been sractching their heads wondering wha to do. The answer is pretty much simple, and its real obvious. THough its juss going to certain people to make changes. A lot of kids expressed, how much they feel mass is boring. they dont get anything out of it. They want things directly revolved around them. They're all so good and expressing wha they want but juss take initiative to make it happen.

THERE'S HOPE: THough I must say I am proud of one of my former students, carl. This guy I've watched totally grow in his faith. Its juss amazing the things he shares w/me and juss how much God has worked through him. God has real big plans for this guy and I can see it already. Anyway, he comes and helps aide w/me errtues. and thursday evening. On top of his already busy skool life he lives. He's quiet at first, like many people but once you get to know him and open up to him you see Jesus shinning right through him. Its juss so cool that he does it because he chooses to, not because he has to. It's kids like him that make me smile knowing that they'll keep the church growing and alive.

PARKING LOT CONVOS: Its so funny a lot of time is spent outside in the parking lot conversing. Last nite I was outside in the holy fam parking lot talking to jennifer for like a good hour. Then tonite after all that talking to/with fr. ed, caroline and I were outside talking still for another half hour. Or often times we stay and mingle in the parking forever juss doing nothing but talking. By the time we look at our watches its already way past the time we were expecting to stay.

HUMBLED: My family er my mom's side of the family I should say(like many of us)have family in the pi. Well, they don't really keep too much in contact w/them cuz they never really knew them taht well. They were too young to know I think who they were. My uncle and his family juss got back last month from their 1 month stay in the pi. Obviously, they brought back a lot of footage of their vacation, places they were at, who they saw etc. Man manila has a huge mall! Its like they have the same stores like they do in the states! Then they were showing the area where my mom grew up in and wow...totally runned down the whole area is so poor. So all my aunts and uncles decided to put together these boxes of food and clothes to send over there. On sunday, I watched the video and I was juss humbled by how much I have and how very little they have. It reminded me of the apl song for some reason ha but its juss wow. If only the trip out there wasnt so freakin long! Id love to go out and see wha the place is like, I juss dont know if I could sit through the long plane ride. Watching it helped me appreciate juss how much I have over here.

I LOVE THIS SONG: If there's a song to dload, imma recommend,'the first time I ever saw your face' by jeffery gaines. I think its a song thas been remade by a lot of different artists. This is the song that melody and ryan danced lyrical to. I was listening to the lyrics of the song, and it could be a d0pe wedding song. Something that youd want to share your first dance with or even sing to your person.

The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave
To the night and the empty skies my love
To the night and the empty skies

The first time ever I kissed your mouth
I felt the earth turn in my hand
Like the trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command my love
That was there at my command

The first time ever I lay with you
And felt your heart beat close to mine
I thought our joy would fill the earth
And would last ’till the end of time my love
And would last ’till the end of time

The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave
To the night and the empty skies my love
To the night and the empty skies

BE COOL: Its a good feeling when despite whatever happened in the past you can start from scratch w/someone. A whole new clean slate as if it was the very first time you met the person. I had a nice convo tonite that made me smile knowing things are better now. Once again, its been a year of change but its cool things some things can still remain the same.


woOo 4 day work week!

"You will always listen as I pray..."im done, im out God bless!