Joaquin Kline for President!

Yup, you guessed it, Joaquin became president of something else...Foreign Students. And he begged them not to nominate him, but it was unanimous. Well, he is very intelligent and political and I would have voted for him as well. I said to him, if you are president does that make me "First Lady of the Foreign Students"? I don't know if I like that idea lol. Then people will be watching me and what i wear...like the Prettier Imelda Marcos lol
Joaquin's friend is coming by tomorrow and I know that Joaquin is so excited. So on to some strange news...Tuesday is my first "bed bathing " return demo. That's right, we have to demonstrate on how to bathe a patient...and our patients are not maniquins =( I have to bathe my partner and its not Joaquin lol We are allowed to wear shorts but thats about it. So, my classmate (good thing we are friends now) is gonna "clean" my... areas.
Damn, I dont know why this is happening to me, but I am in an internet cafe, and I already moved my seat once because the person sitting next to me smelt really heavily of cigarettes. SO I move to an isolated corner, and of all the chairs, someone else sits next to my exposed side, and he smells like cigarettes! Good thing I am not eating anywhere near here or I wouldnt be hungry anymore. Actually, this current person is not as bad as the last so its more tolerable.
guess what, Im sick again lol Its from the freakin mold in my house. We have someone cleaning it twice a week. ANd we are getting a dehumidifyer. Yet, I am sick again. Same problems...painful throat, uncontrollable coughing spasms at night, slight fever, headaches...blah blah blah. WOrse part is that we all know what happens when I miss school =( So I gotta put up with it. At least my allergies are not acting up.
We are probably going to move. WE keep getting weird problems. We received our electric bill and found out that its triple the amount that it normally is! We spoke with our landlord and we all think that maybe someone is tapping into our wire...again lol It just doesnt make any sense because last month we had 3 people living in one house, which one was home most of the time. Now its only two of us and we are ALWAYS at school. So we are not sure what's going on.
Mid terms are about 2 weeks away so I am gradually studying. My Philippine History teacher is still psychotic and I have no idea what she is talking about. She compares the constitution to a seashore...
I just know that next semester I am not taking any class earlier than 1030 and I am not going to have any breaks in between so that it goes by fast...faster. I cant believe its almost September. I am so excited to go home!

Time for the blog

Well, what can I say today? I have a few exams to take today, and unfortunately they are in classes that it doesnt really matter what my grade is. My physics teacher said to me "why are you going to be a nurse, if you are so good in physics?" I just shrugged my shoulders...dont tell anyone I am good in physics. I dont want my secret out. Physics is one of those classes that I dont even need to do that well in. So, i decided to concentrate on my major classes and not study so hard for physics (unfortunately, im not even studying for physics and I have an A =( so I guess it doesnt really matter). My Philippine History teacher is still psychotic, making it mandatory to watch stupid movies on OUR own time...or skip our other classes to watch it. That was basically what she said. Fortunately the time that she had scheduled, I already had the time off.
We are having people over this weekend so that should be fun. Speaking of those people, one of them says he has a "guy" to get us broadband.. So Joaquin has a "guy" who has a "guy" who can get us broadband. So far with my experience with a "guy" it seems that its all in the imagination... But we will see. But Monday we have the day off because it is "Ninoy Aquino Assaniation Day". Sounds weird, but at least I get a day off =)
Joaquin and I havent been doing much lately. Just playing video games and surfing the web. Its a student life, which we dont have much of hehe. So I have been thinking a lot about going home, Christmas, etc...things that will come much sooner than we all think. Especially since the weeks have gone by so fast. Well, I dont have much more to say, so I am going to start posting my Christmas/Bday wish list =)
1. IPod Nano
2. Scrap book stuff
3. Clothes
4. Hair assessories (very big here)
5. Sweat shirts
6. Will post later if I can think of anything else...oh a hair straightener =)

Please, if anyone has a blog and wants to put their holiday wish list on it, let me know so I can see =) Remember I am coming home for about 3 weeks in October and that is it, so if you want your pasalobong let me know now. Or I am just gonna get you whatever...again

PS. The mold is still bad, and its evolving =(

Living in Baguio and loving it

Just so that everyone knows, my last post was totally not ranting on about how I dont like the Philippines. On the contrary, I actually really like where I live right now. I think that before I was so miserable because the weather was so damn hot and you just sweat a lot. I was also in a school that was very small and they weren't exactly up to date on things. Here at least things make sense, and I would recommend Baguio City as a great retirement for anyone who doesnt like it too hot or too cold.
And Kate, for the record, I read your blog (and believe you might notice I also comment) everytime you post it. It gets emailed to me =) But if you decide to start using blogger, it's better for you because it is free.

I know, its been a while

I've been trying to find a cafe that had good internet. I finally found one, so I should be able to keep up on my blog. To bring everyone up to speed...I lost the damn pageant, Joaquin had to speak in front of the entire Nursing student body for no apparent reason at all, and I filed a formal complaint on two of my teachers. Oh yeah, we have rediculous amount of mold growing all over our house and its driving us nuts.
The pageant is forgotten, so Im not gonna talk about that. Im just glad that is over with. So on to Joaquin's public speaking. Joaquin had made some friends in some high places in the school. I dont know if that is a good thing or a bad thing. They nominated him to speak for our Nursing Day...without him even knowing there was a nomination. They dont tell him what to say, so there is nothing prepared. We show up, on our day off none the less (Sunday), and he introduced Nursing Day. All went well, there were games and competitions. To our dismay, he ended up hardly speaking at all. So it was a complete waste of our time because we live a bit far from the school and Sunday is our only day off during the week. I went home and he stayed to help his friend make a slide show for the presentation. The Nursing Day event lasted from 9AM-11PM and for most of the part it was MANDATORY to go. I just signed my name and I am sure I will be fine.
On to the formal complaint. I got sick again last week. I couldnt swallow, I had fever, and all my lymph nodes in my neck were swollen (which reminds me I have a quiz on that today). So I happen to miss three days of school, meaning I missed 2 consecutive classes in a row for my MWF class. Now, the school policy is that if you miss 3 consecutive classes in a row, the teacher has the "option" to drop you. And I agree with that, especially if you are unexcused. So I show up to my General Zoology lab, and my teacher tells me that I need to go to the guidance office to get readmited back into the school. It was the craziest thing that I have ever heard of. Now this particular teacher always gives me a hard time. I dont know why, but every semester I find one of these. I tell him "Sir, I only missed 2 days, not 3". He tells me that it doesnt matter and I need to see a guidance counselor. Well, I find out that I have a 90 in that class so why is he giving me a hard time? And it wasn't like I was skipping, I really was sick and I even had an excuse slip from the school clinic that I could not go to school.
So I go to the guidance office, mind you he is making me miss my current class as it is, and I fill out a million paperwork because people love paperwork here. Finally I get to see the guidance counselor, and she signs the paper. Before I leave, I say to her "you know what, I am seriously going to file a complaint on this teacher." She says "so you are going to fill out a formal complaint?" So I tell her everything. I tell her about why I was there. That he always gives me a hard time, talking to me in a demeaning manner and such. Blah blah blah. And I explain to her that I am actually top of my classes, so why am I being harassed? I can understand if I am skipping school all the time and I am failing but I was not. She tells me that she will definately talk to him because it seems that he is not following school policy and that I should not be in the guidance office in the first place. I also had a complaint about my other teacher, but that is even a longer story.
Now this only happened at 930 in the morning Monday. I am not even done explainig how weird my day was. So I go to my Philippine History class at 130 after lunch and telling Joaquin what happened to me. All of a sudden a woman walks in, and I have a male teacher. I guess, there was a schedule conflict with my current teacher and he was in a "case" whatever that means. So, she was now our new teacher for the next semester. Ok, that's not too weird because this is the Philippines and unexpected things happen all the time. But then she gives us an assignment, that we have to act out a play for 20min about Philippine history, and its due next meeting! And of course I am automatically picked as leader which I wasnt that upset over because I just wrote the script and I am making the rest of the group members act it out.
Lastly, on to the mold growing all over the house. Its from the crazy moisture thats in the air. We have something like 94% humidity all the time because of rainy season. So the mold is growing. Anything that is real leather, has mold (now I know what is real and what is not). Thank God, I left my pink suede purse at home in the states or it would totally be ruined. I am having enough trouble as it is with that purse. Anything that is made of wood has mold...my dresser, our desks, the vanity, and the freaking wall. Just last Sunday, I bleached anything that had mold on it (and I inhaled a good amount of it too) and wiped everything down. And now, I see that it's growing back! I am not sure what to do. I blame it on our "lack of a maid" situation. Not sure if everyone heard the story about the last one, but lets just say it didnt work out. SO we went to the sari-sari store next door and started advertising for a maid to come twice a week. I think we might have found someone, but we are not sure. It's just that I dont have time to keep up with the damn mold, and I think that is why i got sick last week. It's so disgusting, and we dont want to move because we really like our cozy apartment.
Ok, I hope this brought everyone up to date. Until another day.