SHINE!

The Sunday School kids had their Christmas play today and they were amazing! Just wow. All that work paid off. The costumes were awesome too; I love everyone who helped us sew all those shirts and work on all the other props.

Today was a long day. After the kids performed, they had their Christmas party, and after they left, some teachers stayed behind for a small party for ourselves. That was fun too, except Chubbs kept fighting with me. Maybe that’s partly what made it so fun. XD That, and we girl teachers played around with the angels’ wings from the play. And the food was yummy. Lasagna and roast beef and.. **mouth waters** and that frozen mango bravo. Yum yum yum. Today was the last day I was seeing Bianca for the year, because she’s going to Brunei next Saturday.

The party ended at around 2:30, and I had to wait in church until around 4, because my family forgot to fetch me. Haha. I hung out with Kuya Martin and Leah and Rachel for a while, then when they left I stayed in Teacher Dongdong’s area and took a nap.

Then I finally got picked up, and we went to my aunt’s house where we stayed until dinner. Then we went home, and while we were in the car I saw the moon, and it’s so big and bright tonight. :p

I’m a bit tired, because I wasn’t able to sleep very well last night, and then I woke up early, and then all those things happened today, so yeah.

Pain Killers.

“He is a bad doctor, Sir, he who seeks only to correct the symptoms and muffle them without attempting to inquire into the origin of the evil, or knowing it, is fearful of attacking it. . .

“Besides, following your comparison, the treatment applied to the evils of the country is so destructive as to affect even a sound organism, whose vitality weakens and conditions it for evil. Would it not be more reasonable to strengthen the weak body and lessen somewhat the violence of the treatment?”

-Noli Me Tangere

I watched a modernized version of Noli and Fili last Thursday at PETA (Philippine Educational Theater Association). It was cool. Let’s all become tree huggers. XDD

It made me remember my favorite part from Noli, where Elias was telling Ibarra how the government just makes quick fixes for the nation’s problems, instead of going into the core of it and working from there.

Like using pain killers. It’ll give you relief for the moment, but in the long run it’ll attack some other part of your body and you’ll be worse off than before.

Let’s stop giving the Philippines pain killers and do some real healing.