Togetherness

Togetherness

By: Nico Fredia

For a business man, time is gold. For a mother, time is spent with her children.

I chose this photo for two reasons -- one, I adore black and white photography. It's just the simplicity of it all. The impact. The color. Second, I love how despite their situation, they still manage to spend time with each other which in the urban areas are unlikely to happen in one family. The mom has work here, the dad has a business meeting there, the eldest has cheer leading practice, and the youngest has soccer tryouts. In this crazy world, you can't help but just miss those times spent together with your family.

buzz. buzz. busy.

In our class this morning, we made a time table, and guess what? WHAT? We have to submit two articles per week. OMG! Thank God it's per group. But still, each of us had to provide ideas and our own articles to submit. Remember when I told you that I didn't write well? And that writing really isn't my thing? So maybe, this is where hell starts. For the rest of the semester, I'll be writing articles and reading some shit. I'm going to have a hard time, I'm sure of it. But so far, Journ classes were fun! I do admit that my outlook towards reading and writing has improved. (see I'm writing now. :D) And I read the newspaper sometimes, when it's available.

But that's not all my problem. There are other subjects too, you know. Like our DC7 where we have to conduct seminars. DC8 for theater where we have to run a play by the end of September. (I heard that was really the hardest part of the 3rd year life.) And of course, DC 89, my love -- Photography, where we have to take loads of photos so that, also by the end of September we will be able to put up a gallery of some sort in and off campus. :)

HAINAKO. Help me God!

with the boys.

Okay, so I wasn't able to attend my Cropsci class today because I was hanging out with a bunch of well-known photographers in CdeO. (haha! if they can read this, they'd feel flattered) So anyway, yeah. I was the only girl in the bunch. That may sound like I'm a sort of.. ugh, i don't know the word. Basta! it sounds like... haha but I had fun with them talking about nonsense and all, about videography, photography, and what to do if you only had a square of tissue paper and you were disposing the garbage on your body. lol CRAZY STUFF! X)


stayed at Brewberry, ate Missy Bonbon gelato, went to Ketkai for shoe shopping, ate again at Sunburst, stayed at Bo's Cafe.

Back!

I guess I have to write a blog now huh ? Welcome me back internet blogerrish shit! XD

Okay, so here's the thing. I was placed in the Journalism major which was pretty shocking for me because I don't even write well, and reading isn't my best asset. Confused, I was. Frustrated, even more! Left out because all my barkada was placed in EdCom. (So just in case you don't know what I'm talking about, our course is Development Communication which has two majors namely Journalism and Educational Comm.) Still up to this day it hasn't sink in yet that I actually am a journalism student. Writing and reading isn't my thing at all. I'm more on the artistic side -- photography, graphic designs, photoshops and all those shenanigans.

It's going to be a challenging 2 years for me now. WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! and READ! READ! READ! :) what the eff. Got nothing else to do but just do it. I'm not mad anymore though, I actually had mix emotions when my classmate told me that I was placed in Journ and the rest of the crew was Edcom. Some part of me said "kyawa basad!" and then another part said "that's okay. I'm going to be journalist someday! AWESOME!" haha. see? Mixed.

So far, after a week of going to school, everything's okay. We started writing already. That's why I re-activated this account. I should really practice writing already. I feel as if I'm the only one in the class that doesn't know how to write. :( That would be pretty embarrassing. >.< So here's to Pens and Papers and long hours of writing.

Dora! Where's the Map?

What is community mapping based on my experience on the past two exercises?

Community mapping is a way of identifying the places in your community; it makes it easy to analyze. It also provides a visual way of communicating to the audience. I have leaned that to be exact and accurate about your map is highly important, because people depend on it. Tourists depend on it. You really have to include the twists and turns of the map you are making so that the people who will watch it would know the specific places. In our experience on the community mapping exercise, going to the places wasn't as backbreaking as we thought it would be but the making of the map is. We were jumbled for we didn't know what to put in out 1/2 manila paper. Because if we were to put all the stores, it wouldn't fit :) That's what's tiring. hehe

How do i think it could be applied to our communities?

Simply by letting ourselves be in participation of map drawing. In this way, we will be able to familiarize places in our community, help those places who are in need of improvement. :)