so, where's pepeng?

i'm hoping he's a flaker.

a lot of relief centers refused volunteers today, ateneo included. everyone's preparing for pepeng. sayang, i wanted pa naman to volunteer today, before ushering for spring awakening, which also got cancelled tonight and tomorrow. i guess i'd have to go on sunday though. they cancelled at around 4pm already, so that didn't leave me time to get ready to go to voice lessons. i just stayed at home the whole day. so many could-have's.

i volunteered in ateneo again yesterday, but only from 7am-7pm. at around 10:30, geru came, so did felix. mindy, dindin and iya also came but they left early. there were only a few volunteers, maybe because of the uaap finals, or because of the pepeng threats. haha ang panget, pepeng threats! :)) i'm hoping it's just those 2 reasons. i don't want to think that volunteering's become a thing of the past.

we didn't get deployed. boring. haha. the first thing i did when i was alone was join an assembly line, and we filled a truck with 3000 bags which lasted almost 3 hours. there was a little boy (as in pre-school little) who joined us at the assembly line. helping out is his gift to his mom. :D then went with friends to the grocery shopping area. sayang because they ran out of noodles from time to time. there were soooo many canned goods in soooo many boxes, but that eventually ran out as well. so we carried boxes and opened boxes and stuff, then ended up giving away canned goods before lunching. there was another little boy who's also around 5 years old maybe. good job to him!

after lunch we went back to the grocery shopping area. boxes of noodles came (SWEET! hahahahaha. finally!) but were emptied really quickly. so we just did what we could - tie the finished bags. after a while this gay guy approached me, geru and felix and asked THEM to lift boxes. he was like... "hi, we need help from strong people to lift some boxes over there..."
to felix: you. you're strong.
to geru: well, you look strong.
to me: and you look... nice :|

then the same guy asked felix to count the bags being sent to one pile (one of the jobs we hated. math sucks!). then he huddled the people who were going to bring the bags to the pile and he was like, "okay, for this batch, give your bags to that tall, cute, muscular guy over there" HAHAHA. for more, he kept on ordering people, but he didn't even do manual work.deploy ko siya sa africa eh.

but yeah, for that day, i got a bit stressed at how, whenever i'm about to lift a heavy box (i want to find out how strong i am!), one of them would take the box from me. worse, felix told me to just gather the empty boxes. bleh. maybe that's why i still have so much energy today.

we ended at around 7pm, right before the mass. i liked the conversation over dinner. it was... sincere? i dunno. it's interesting to know that there are people you think you know, people you've known for more than a year, but there are still a bazillion things for you to find out. i also learned a lot. and i think there are still some things that i haven't figured out yet. hmm hmm.

i'm not sure about how i feel about... :D