Archive for March 3rd, 2009

I should have done this post last Sunday yet but i was away on a trip so am just posting it now.  I just checked the stat for all my 3 blogs and am so happy to see that there are faithful droppers the past months.

So here are the top 10 -

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To you top 10 and to all who dropped, please receive my warmest —

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The Dapitan-Dipolog Trip

Posted by: adminin life, travel in life, travel
3
Mar

Hey am back!  Actually we were back last night.  I got home around 9 pm but i was so tired so i did not make any blog post anymore.  Though i said hi in plurkland hehehe and then read my emails and approved comments.

Thanks to those who left good wishes.  It was well appreciated.  Surely i had fun but it was not stress free.  It is not easy for the 15 faculty to manage 300 plus active students especially in outing activities.  Though many were good and naturally behaved students, yet there are also those who feels that they have the right to their dependency thus they give made the faculty and agency staff get worried.

The trip was an educational trip (History V), the Life and Works of Rizal oif Mindanao Sanitarium and Hospital College.  It was a culmination trip  or major activity of the class.    Since some faculty backed out from the responsibility of being a chaperon at the last minute, so i was invited to come along and chaperoned one of the Vans.  I was assigned in Van # 10.  There were 18 vans all in all.

Anyway i have so many things to talk about the trip like the places we went to, the lecture on Rizals life and work in Dapitan, some personal reflections about the trip but i cannot share them all now.  Somehow this whole week i will be able to mention them along with my posts.  I will be narrating about the trip randomly in my 3 blogs and for sure many photos will be posted in my photoblog.

As i have mentioned in my other blog, i was only armed with a handphone camera so i really did not have great pictures.  But i tried my very best to capture all that i can.  And for those spots or corners my camera was not able to capture, oh well, they were etched inside my mind and will stay there forever.

So here are some photos: (pls click on the photo to enlarge)

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After more than 5 hours of land travel, we arrived at this land mark, and that means we are just few kilometers from our destination.  Both places were our destination and after this moment, we heeded to Dipolog City for our lunch and for the first major itenerary.

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Our first stop! Do you know what’s in here and what we did here?  Watch out for the next photos:

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oK, at Vadia Gardens, we had our lunch.  It was a cool place for the 300 to have lunch.  The ambience of the place was for wedding reception and JS.  Some commented that if they knew we were eating there and also hear the first set of lecture, then they should hav told us to carry our gowns to be bagay to the place. hehehe

After eating lunch, there was a lecture or short overview on the life and works of Rizal in Dapitan  It was given by one of the history professor at MSU-IIT in Iligan.  He was an invited guest.

From Valdia Gardens off we went to —

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That’s at the foot of Linabo Peak.  You have to make 3003 steps to reach the peak and not all 300 plus students made it to the top but some did.  Their proof?  Pictures.  The memorable spot (according to them) at the top is to have a picture taken at the top of the LOVER’S ROCK. Wow when i saw the picture, it was a huge rock.  Wish i made it to the top.  I only made 3 steps.  I was not even able to step or take a photo at the first station.   I was not really tired that time, but i was just milling aside because of so many students.  The entrance was packed for quite sometime for registration of names and for picture taking.  Another thing, it was also too hot and my almost bathing in my sweat.  As in init jud!

From the Linabo Peak we went to –

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The Rizal Shrine.    Everything inside the compound was about Rizal.  Some structures were just replicas but there were several things too that were originals like the class table and the black board that was placed in this building —

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Many photos can be seen inside this building.  Since it was already getting dark, my phone does not make nice photos so i only have few photos from there.  Later i will share a photo of Rizal and of Leonor Rivera, also Josephine Bracken.

Now am off to work, will continue my narrationlater.   lol.

To be continued!

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This week-end was full of activities.  Some were planned and some were surprises.  Saturday was a frenzy of appointments from morning until the evening.  The photo above shows me in our bench cheering attire.  Our group is called the Golden Falcons.  Yay but in fairness the color of our t-shirt looks ok.  I thought it would have a Tisa color.  Am sharing to you this photo because this is the only photo i had of the night.  My phone’s battery got empty before the cheering started.  Look at me in the picture, so big compared to 15 years ago.  I guess i need some weight loss pills to help me get off these excess pounds.  Friends also advised me to go on detox before starting the pills.  Then i have to find an exercise buddy so that i won’t feel tired and lazy – then with all of the above mentioned means to shed off the unwanted pounds, i will surely make it back to at least 120 lbs. Isn’t that great?  How about you?  Are you having some weight problems too?

I will show you another photo later to help you shed lots of weight naturally. :)

Oppsss our group got the 3rd place when we thought we will win the last place.