cwts...

Finally, the return to Barangay Banaba:

I overslept! So I ended up having to run all the way from the Vito Cruz LRT station to Harrison Plaza (quite a long way, I realized), and I thought my asthma was going to kill me halfway. Anyhow, we were still right on schedule, and got to San Mateo without any hitches. We visited our host families again. Sheila, Marie, and I got to spend some quality time with Ate Andrea and her two kids Alex and Jon. I got to taste ginaataang tilapia for the first time in my life.

Afternoon was spent mainly playing with the kids, getting hyperactive owing to lunch (or for Nana and Justine, cotton candy), while trying to dodge Jon's attempts to bite the volunteers. Then we had to have our project presentation. So far, it's going okay, though I do believe that the Buklod Tao members are more than willing to make the best of the student presence in the area (now we have to fix up the reading center in addition to tutoring the kids).

Still, despite the inconveniences of travel and getting my shoes muddied and dealing with the dangerous river and the chronic smell of the neighborhood pig pens, I love being in CWTS. Salamat di ako nag-RO! For once, I thank God for my myriad disabilities.

Going home was mainly spent dozing off, or talking dazedly to my blockmates.

Thank God that not a single drop of rain has fallen here.

Tomorrow: Neil Gaiman at the fort. Meeting up with Trisha, Justine, and Mac. Possibly seeing my cousin too.