This past week, I was invited to participate in a training called "Level Up"
I'm so blessed to have spent almost a week with everyone, it was on of the best experiences in my life (:
Day 1: Wasteland Day
well i came pretty late because i felt sick, and i was kinda dumb and thought i had to be there at a different time. LOL but i still got there. but when we were finally 'semi-complete' cause calvin and clarissa couldnt be there the first day, so who was there was, ate christine, kuya jun, barby, ate ariel, ryan, kristian and leo. everyone was doing what they want. then we played the game where we state our name, school and something awkward/funny about yourself. my awkward thing was that i didnt like feet. HAHA. but yeah .. then we went on to errthang. we were outside dipping our feet into the pool then all of a sudden kuya jun was like "grab whatever and get into a car" so .. i just grabbed a sweater and got into ate lara's car. we didnt know what was happening. but we ended up at superstore and we went grocery shopping! but it was a competition! sisters vs. brothers, and the winner got 30 seconds extra on their 2 min shower! and the limit was an hour. so me, barby and ate ariel spilt up and we got our things. we totally were so fast. haha we ended up searching for spam, cause we didnt know where to get find it, but then kuya jun was like "we gave you a map for a reason" then we searched. so we got the spam, and we ran to the check out line. the brothers were also in a line, but ate ariel asked the scanner person to be fast, and we beat them! but we still waited for them, but it was kinda long so we just waited at the finish point for them. after that, we went home and then we started to cook. but the brothers took over, so me and barby started to watch wizards of waverly place! but then we ran out of spagetti sauce so the brothers went out to buy more and i put names on the plates :) haha . when they came back, the food was done and we blessed then ate it... and it was HOT.. like spicy hot. kuya jun and kristian like put like everything that was on top of the oven thingy, there was like pepper, caijun and stuff. holy smackerooonies. crazy. ahahah. after we ate, we watched Fireproof. one of my favorite movies! :) it was kristian and barby's first time to watch it. and Barby LOVES Erma. HAHA "erma, i dont want you hanging out with him" HAHA and barby was like "she so cute!" and yeah, everyone started to leave because it was late and it was lights out when the movie was done. but not for me and barby, we totally stayed up until 5 just talking! and i played my music and it played all night until wake up call.
Day 2: Day of Help.
Wake up call was at 7:30, but it was supposed to be at 7. haha, kuya jun's alarm didnt work. but kuya jun woke me up just by poking my lightly on the face. but Barby was like in a deep sleep. hahaha, kuya jun shook her, and she kinda woke up, and then i threw my pillow at her.. and she hugged it. HAHA! but yeah, we ate breakfast, but i stared at the milk for like ever, hahah! then me and barby cleaned our 'room' and then we had our common prayer time. then we waited for everyone to come. while we were waiting, we decided to play contact, kuya jun taught me, leo and barby how to play. we spent like an hour playing, and then ate christine came and she started to play. and then everyone started rolling in. then we found out that we were having our S.E and that basically is giving back. and our S.E was giving food to the homeless downtown. that made me feel so happy, seeing their eyes light up. then we headed down higgins and main. SO SCARY, but we made people happy. it was a hot day and we gave a bunch of people food and water. we made people's day. thats all that counts. so we headed to the homeless shelters, walking and playing contact, and we wanted to just talk to people, but we were either too young or it was a bad time. so we didnt get to do it. so we headed back to the level up house and played contact the whole way there. we decided to do our chores today, cause we had like 3 hours to kill until we need to go to the Vasquez's house for our evening talks. so kristian cleaned the pool with the thingy net thingy. i stayed in the house and washed the dishes and cleaned the kitchen. when i was done, i just sat around outside, slowly being eaten away by mosquitos. hahah. kuya jun was mowing the lawn and leo, ate ariel and barby was raking. i decided to help raking after ate ariel went into the house. after that, barby, kuya jun and kristian changed and jumped into the pool. i just sat at the edge. but kristian splashed me and hugged me, so i had a big wet hand print on my back. LOL then we decided it was time to get ready to get to the vasquez's house, we made baon, nutella sandwiches with banana and hotdogs with cheese wiz. hahaha! kuya jun drove us there, he thought we were late, but we were totally early, no one got there until like 6:30. we were there at 5:50. hahah. we played with the kids .. i like their names, they all have some sort of 'joy' word in their name. haha. everyone came by the end of worship, and we had a greeting game from ate rina and then kuya andrew totally just cut us off. haha then we started our talk that was given by Ate rina. after that HSB was the only one with baon, and we decided to share with errrbody because we coo like that (: was kuya dexter's talk. it was pretty cool, i learned alot and had a bit of laughs. ahaha john "the notebook" LOL insider, too lazy to explain. then before we left we actually got food! haha. we so cool. awuh then when we got to our house, we had our mini 'love forum' kinda thing and kuya jun and ate christine gave us gifts, sisters got the three nail's cross and bothers got the "W.W.J.D" and according to kuya jun it's "what would jun do" HAHA. awwwwww, we so tight! haha then me and barby totally crashed cause we barely had sleep the night before.
Day 3: Day of Honor
usual wake up call. kuya jun poked my hand and i totally just woke up easily. haha. then we got were still in our pantulog when everyone came over, like EVERYONE in the core, we were complete! (: but it was okay, cause kenny came and did his talk, and then kuya andrew came over to just check up on us and tell us to dress comfortably. and i was already wearing sweats and stuff and i was as comfortable as possible. haha. then kenny's activity for us was to come up with a prayer meeting. so as the "noobs" planned the prayer meeting, the others cooked lunch and played contact and randomly came and said we have lifelines to use. haha after that we blessed the food and ate lunch it was so yummy! macaroni w/ macaroni and spagetti noodles, and spam! YAAAY! so delish! the brothers were hardcore and totally put hotsauce all over theirs and kuya jun and kristian were sweating as they ate. LOL so after we ate .. i waited a little and got into the pool it was SO cold! but we got almost everyone into the pool except kenny and ate christine. Ate ariel got kenny to drive her home to get her swimming clothes, and they got bubble tea AND KENNY GOT WATERMELON, and i totally drank so much of it. so yummy! haha so we all got inthe pool kenny took pictures of us jumping in the pool! we are so awesome! LOL we totally got kenny wet. :P then we had to get dinner ready for ourselves and then headed to the Vasquez's for the evening sessions. again, HSB was the first one there. and people started coming over one by one. then HSB played contact with campus so it was pretty cool cause there was more people. hahaha. then we got a talk from kuya andrew and then we ate sopas but i was already kinda full and then we got another talk from kuya sevi. and then kuya earl came to the front and read us some bible versus and then it was the 'climax' of level up, and it was the washing of the feet. it was pretty intense. and then after we went to our level up house. and me and ate ariel and barby stayed up and talked. barby was the first one to crash. and me and ate ariel stayed up until 4 talked.
Day 4: Day of Relaxation
Since we finished our chores yesterday, kuya jun decided to cancel all talks/activities and we would just chill and relax with each other. So after breakfast we decided to plan things that HSB should do to fundraise for GK and Conference and then after that we cooked our lunch. it was chicken fajitas so we saved some for ate rina and kenny. we invited kenny over cause he was an ex-HSBer. haha and he came over with ice capps, we decided to get him to get us all some tim hortons. we put in the biggest order ever and i gave him a 20 to pay for me and whoever. LOL then we told kenny to call in late to go to work so he can hang out with us. so he came back with so much ice capps. then kenny changed and then kuya jun and kristian totally grabbed him and threw him into the pool! LMAO! then kenny tried to flip, and he got dizzy. HAHA. kuya jun totally could do flips better then anyone there! HAHA! so yeah .. we swam for about 2 hours or so. ate rina came over to hang out with us we told her we saved food for her. then when we were done we just talked with everyone, kenny had to go home and then ate rina decided to leave as everyone got ready to go to the Vasquez's house. but we cleaned up everything and finished our love/honor notes. We had one last talk it was by ate lara. and after her talk we had a feast! (: after that was the reading of the love/honor notes. awwwuh, made me cry. and then we had our shares. Love you kuya jesse! <3>
this is long enough, i shall just explain more things later .. if i want to. LOL
Peace, Love and God Bless,
ardiasarao, now President of HSB at DMCI.