archive of June, 2008
Because I stayed up late helping Mack with his project and feeding him and puttering around on my own, I didn’t go to bed anywhere near midnight. And when I awoke, my right shoulder and my knees hurt so much I was disinclined to arise and go to work rebuilding the chapel in Baguio Gold. I hadn’t told anyone that I’d be there, anyway. So tomorrow I should begin working there (if they permit me). »→
Last night Mack and I worked on three posters for him to use in today’s oral report on cell membrane structures and functions in City High. I don’t know what type of cells. Mack said more than once, “That’s the cholesterol,” and I saw a “glycoprotein” label, so I surmised that they’re cells of a type in animals. But I never asked Mack what we were drawing. I just helped. Mack did research on the internet, using my computer, to learn all the functions and processes of the components of cell membranes, including glycoproteins, glycolipids and phospholipids. »→
I pray that John and Kim and their sons accomplish all that they desire in their visit to the U.S. that they return safely to the Philippines.
Today Mack came to the house around 3:15 to do the homework that he didn’t come here yesterday to do. Unfortunately he didn’t have poster board, so he and Dominic went to Baguio City to get groceries and cartolina (paper) while I walked to Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in Turning Point. »→
Today we’ve had rain since I awoke. Perhaps this is the first day of the rainy season. Although Nick is here, we won’t walk up the street in the downpour to get a jeepney ride to Pacdal Circle to go to Mass in Saint Joseph Catholic Church. I don’t understand much of what’s said in English and Tagalog in the “English” Holy Mass, and I can’t sing the hymns in Tagalog. We’ll go to Mass tomorrow. Dominic has been in the city most of the day, which is unusual for him. †
This afternoon I walked down to Baguio Gold Elementary School to ask the new principal, Mr. Nestor Asiong, if he’d like for me or Dominic to tutor kids in fourth, fifth or sixth grade. Mr. Asiong took-over the school on Monday. Unfortunately, he wasn’t at the school when I arrived, as was so often the case when I tried to reach his predecessor. The previous principal spent so much of her last week at the district office two miles away, preparing for the change of command. »→
This afternoon, after the rain had abated, I gathered all the recyclables in our flat into a bag, picked up a camera and a package from my mother then hiked up to street level to coast down to Baguio Gold to deliver recyclables and gifts from my mom for my friends down in the valley. »→
