Work, Home, and Recreation: Y3-W4

Mid-October 2016

Hygiene relay

Match the hygiene item with the area of the body

Jovie flirting with “Giene” the hygiene dummy

We asked students to “draw the puberty changes”…some results were interesting.

Drawing…

…and drawing pa

Reporting to the group

Puberty talks can get awkward/funny

More presenting

Gotta explain those changes

We had some talented artists

My second round of Youth Development Sessions! The topic was “Your Changing Body”. The session started with a hygiene relay, and then students learned all about the body changes that occur during puberty, though some interactive drawing activities.

Mid-October 2017

My trip home, after one year in the Philippines, was different than expected. It seemed too long and too short at the same time. There were too many people I wanted to see and things I wanted to do so I spent the two weeks running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to do it all. I was overwhelmed with reverse-culture shock the entire time, but I did manage to squeeze in some fun things:

I gave presentations at my old high school and for the congregation of my church

Saw some foliage

Hung out with animals

Stormy time

Alpacas!

Friends

Drinks with Ken and Audrey

A hike with Austin

And family.

Me with my mom, step-dad, and sister

My great-grandmother with all of her great-grandchildren

Four generations

The whole experience was surreal, but I was glad that I got to be around for my Great-Grandmother’s 90th birthday.

October 7-13, 2018

This week was BISU’s annual SCUAA (State Colleges and Universities Athletic Association) Athletic Meet , and this year it was hosted by my campus. Candijay was invaded by hundreds of extra students who came from the other five BISU campuses to compete in competitions from soccer to swimming, and boxing to basketball. There was even a beauty pageant to decide which two students would become Mister and Miss BISU. Our campus spent the month leading up to the event sprucing up the campus to make everything as nice as possible – the SCUAA rotates between the five campuses, so it’s a bit of an opportunity to show off. Housing was limited, so some students decided to sleep out on the green.