Return to Corregidor

It has been a crazy school year so far and suddenly we are less than 2 weeks from the end of third quarter. In some ways, I feel like I need to hire a personal assistant that could follow me around with a camera and a note pad to keep track of all that goes on in life so that I could be better at updating you but that’s a little outside of my budget, haha. This year I am no longer working on the yearbook but I am equally (if not more) busy as I ever have been at Faith Academy. It is a little sad that there will be officially no yearbook but the students I have had in yearbook understand that the change in job for me was a step that provided the experiences for them as opposed to just documenting them and they are okay with that.

I am still co-advising the high school student executive council which carries most of the high school social events but I also moved back across campus to be the Cadd Theater Manager so I see to all the events that happen in our theater and three function rooms. I also make reservations for all spaces across campus and first semester I was co-teaching/directing HS advanced drama class which put on “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.” Minus the school, weekly chapels, meetings, etc part here’s a brief rundown of what my year has looked like so far:

First Quarter – High School Retreat, Spirit Week, 3 music concerts, a prayer vigil
Second QuarterAladdin Jr., All My Sons, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, ExCo Gala party, 2 banquets, 3 music concerts, Elementary Christmas Program
Third Quarter – Talent Night, Spiritual Enrichment Week, Outdoor Ed, ExCo Banquet, 3 music concerts
Upcoming Fourth Quarter – nExCo elections, The Music Man, appreciation day, 2 banquets, 2 music concerts, graduation…

It’s not an official vlog but have a peek at our Outdoor Education experience!

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Leaving on a helicopter

So we flew on a jet plane north to Tuguegarao (it’s just as much fun to say as it is to spell)

Commence Life Change

This is the face of how Hannah and I feel about May. It’s a no good terrible rotten time. Too much change, too many goodbyes, beginning a love hate/relationship with skype. But that is the life we lead, it is the nature of the expat/missionary life. When you venture to a place far away from the home and people you grew up with the world suddenly becomes a much bigger place. You can’t unmeet people and forget that life is going on without you in each new place anymore than you can forget that life goes on in the place you grew up, went to school, church etc. Sometimes I’m like whhhhy did I open that door? I cannot shove it shut! I cannot forget you people! But then I recognize that it’s only such a painful experience because it’s such a great experience. In the end, your world gets smaller because your friends begin to populate the areas between you and the people you love that are furthest from you. I could just play hopscotch across the globe and find pieces of my heart that were stolen from me (okay okay, I gave them willingly). Anyway, you get the idea.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

This post is hard for me to write. Mostly because it’s hard to describe the experience with words. For those of you know the kind of experience I had with my senior theatre project at Cedarville then you understand exactly the kind of emotions, awe, and wonder that this production evoked. It truly was a midsummer night’s dream. NOT intentionally PUNNY! (The hot season in the Phils or summer is from from March to May. Our play was April 24-26. :o) The great thing about Shakespeare is that it a blank canvas, you can do whatever you want with it. But I’ve come to realize that the blank canvas can also be TOTALLY overwhelming when you aren’t an abstract thinker. Thankfully, I had willing people around me who stepped up to help brainstorm, design, choreograph, buy fabric, paint, sew, and tell me the ideas I did have weren’t crazy (even when they were). I felt like the luckiest director in the world as I sat in the audience and watched our creation come to life.

Corregidor

For those of you who do not know what or where Corregidor is (and there’s a good chance you don’t really know since history books

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