I just got back from Cavite. Actually, I should have blogged earlier but our new thesis adviser just texted me to meet up with her. Since I am the group leader for our thesis, I decided to go to school and discuss our thesis with her even if I felt nausea tic at that time. She made a lot of comments in our thesis which I think will benefit us. And she taught me a lesson that I always fail to put in my mind. Credit every single work of my subordinates. Since I am very used to taking all the works, I barely praise my group mates’ work. And our adviser’s words struck me! How could I forget those simple thank you’s! My mind has been eaten by those pressure and stress that I failed to thank my group mates for those simple contributions in our thesis. My mind has been poisoned by their past wrong doings that I forgot that they may not have passed a perfect work but at least, they tried. Oh my… am I still the leader that my previous group mates look up to?

Anyways, like what I have said, I just got home from Cavite. Our 2nd week of our community immersion was fun. Thursday was really tiring. Despite the heat of the sun, we had house-to-house visits to check if they have herbal plants in their garden. We did that for about 2 hours. Although the walk-athon moments were very exhausting, we had hilarious experiences that I had a hard time getting back into my normal state. Hehe. The day ended with really haggard feet and legs. Thank God I haven’t say hello to varicose veins! Yesterday (Friday), I almost abused my throat. Our original plan was to conduct a seminar in one place for all the people in our assigned cluster at exactly 4pm. When we went to the agreed place, only one person came. Because we still wanted to continue our health education about Cancer, we decided to do house-to-house (again) health teachings. Aside from moving from one house to another under the heat of the sun, our repetitive lecturing of the topic was really energy consuming. I remember this 60-year old articulate man who debated with us about his beliefs. We told him that he should avoid those foods that have high content of uric acid, sugar and cholesterol. In spite of our concern, he insisted that he won’t be happy in his life if he will feed his self with nutritious yet not delicious foods. There were a lot of things we have debated but I do understand him because I know that he’s used with the old beliefs and it’s not that easy to change it.

We left Cavite earlier this morning with excitement of going back to our respective houses. Praise the Lord. Because of those tiring house-to-house visits, unfortunately, my skin darkened! Poor me! I really need to bring sun block lotion next week.