A warm welcome

University of Perpetual Help-MOLINO, CAVITE campus 

August 16, 2012

As a student leader and an ex-participant of the United States Practicum, it is my duty to go on public appearances and promote the summer work and travel program hosted by HR international. So, my first stop is my school's sister school, the UPHR-Molino Campus.

Since it was quite far from home, I took a 350php cab on the way there just to not get lost somewhere haha! So, when I got there, I waited in the deans office for the students to get settled. All i know is that im going to speak to only about 50 people, or only the HRM and tourism students, but when we were called to the venue, which is their gymnasium, I think the whole school was there? there were about 200+++ people from different courses.

My nervousness and stage fright just came over me but my adviser told me to suck it in and be natural so, I did, I went up that stage and presented my speech and showed the video I made about my whole USA work life and I believe I convinced them well. As i stepped down the stage, I felt more confident and empowered especially when my adviser, dean and fellow speaker said there was no sign of nervousness from me.. 

After the speech, the college of Tourism took us on a tour to their mini travel mart, they welcomed us with open arms and gave us souvenirs.! This is sure a day that ill remember, Thank you Perps Molino, and to everyone I was with this day! :)

PUBLIC SPEAKING

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SOUVENIRS I GOT FROM TOURISM STUDENTS! THANK YOU GUYS!

Visiting Thailand!

Nope this Aint Thailand, Its Denver Thai temple!

Our Thai friends Guy, Piaw, Palm (not their real names ok?) are celebrating their new year and they were on the search for their Thai temple ever since they got to the USA. Luckily, they found one which was 2 1/2 hours away from Granby, the place we work. Since all of us, Me, Sherly, Jane and the Thais need to get our Social Security card already, our Resident Assistant Courtney (Gisele) took us to our social security and since we have about 4 hours free time after getting the SSC, we took the chance to find the Thai temple with the help of my epic GPS, good thing it worked though. haha! Anyway We found the temple and the Thais were happy, it was just simply amazing, the giant Buddha statues and all those Golden things. We also did try our fortune from "Buddha" apparently my fortune isn't that good, so I flushed it down our toilet, haha! After the prayer at the Temple, our Thai journey should never end there, we went out to find a Thai restaurant and so we did, we ate at the Thai house just nearby, the food was great and spicy! :)) after that we went to the mall and shopped :) THIS SURE IS ONE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET. :)

Asian Food festival!

ASIAN FOOD FEST IN COLORADO USA

APRIL 2nd 

There are about 20 of us Asians from Thailand, Philippines and China who are working as international staff at the Y and one of our goals is to share our culture, especially the food. One of our American friends have decided to have an Asian food fest where we cook our traditional dishes. They all enjoyed it and loved it! I, being a sushi/maki lover, made my very own maki rolls, salmon and crab, where I only used a plastic folder to wrap it, haha! Plexy and Earvin Cooked the Philippines very own, Adobo which everyone loved. Piaw and Chadchapon "Guy"  from thailand cooked their Chicken soup and Thai Spicy Noodles. Will, the brains of this event was in charge of dessert, he got us Apple Pie and Ice cream! this sure is one YUMMY NIGHT, one of the nights i will truly miss. :)

I always tell her that she reminds me of Gisele Bundchen :))

My "crib" in Granby

Wanna know what my, in that case, OUR room looks like in Colorado?

Before we even flew across the world for our US practicum, we already requested to be room mates together, unfortunately, wish not granted, so my bro-from-another-momma waited about 2 weeks till we move to a new room, since only boys and boys, and girls and girls can stay together and Sherly and Plexy are already room mates. But they moved us to a fresh new room. room 3084 of Blueridge lodge. We had no one else in the room with us for 1 month, and on our last month, since that the number of employees are growing in the summer, we had to pick 2 room mates, so, we got our Thai brothers, Mint and Arm :) I just miss my life in the USA, and I miss my friends there, and my room. 

VIEW FROM OUR WINDOW  (c) sony w570 digicam (March 22, 2012)

HOW WE LOOK AFTER MOVING IN! :)))) 

AS OUR THAI ROOM MATES SAY: LOOM MATES :)

I MISS

HOW OUR ROOM LOOKS LIKE WHEN WE MOVED: MARCH 22, 2012

HOW OUR ROOM LOOKS LIKE BEFORE WE LEFT: JUNE 14, 2012 :)))))) DISASTER 

Flashback, Cake Decorating

2 days before we leave for the United States...

March 2, 2012-FRIDAY

So, our professor required us to join the cake decorating contest sponsored by Goldilocks bakeshop in order to fulfill our final exam. So, we did. Me, P and E joined this contest. Plexy and Earvin as partners, and Me and Ivan G. So the main concept of this contest is to incorporate artistic skills in decorating a cake... So, I decided to create a white and red cake with the theme: LOVE. I put my drawing skills into it and made a couple in a beach with the sunset as the main attraction of the cake and put some garden-ish style in the sides, unfortunately we didnt win anything nor be in the top 7, well, we didn't give a shit that day. coz we were about to leave for the USA and our minds were somehow floating somewhere in the blue. 

I do remember how we were in "panic mode" during these days about packing, getting papers ready and all that. But we get to bring home the cake, so we ate it and gave some to our friends!

At the end of the day, we went to our dean to say goodbye. all our stress just evaporated out of our body, and we just cried because our dean was so happy about us being the 1st batch to leave for the United Stated to have our on-the-job training. 

This is one of THE most unforgettable days of my 2012.

OUR CAKE :))

Whoever's cake is this. :))