My Summer So Far...

I've been back to work since last week. I was assigned to handle Reading tutorials for incoming Grade 1 students and Math tutorials for lower grade levels. As much as possible, I try not to stress myself. I don't over think or put pressure on myself. It's summer time so I need to relax even if I'm working.

A few weeks from now, I'll be visiting one of my good friends in Singapore. Every summer, my college friends and I always make it a point to go out of town. For the past summers, we went to Boracay and Puerto Galera. This year, we'll be having an out of the country trip. We were supposed to go to Hong Kong on May but decided to go there some other time. We also want to have a beach getaway on May before the school year begins.

I'm also reading fiction books and education-related books during my free time. So far I've read The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares, and The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares. I totally love the Traveling Pants. I'll be writing a review of it in my book blog in the next few days.

So far, I'm having a great time. I feel very peaceful. It has been a long time since I felt this way. I really thank God for being so good to me. I found the answers I have been looking for and I was able to accept them bravely and gracefully. For now, I'll savor and enjoy this great time I'm having.

Cleaning Up My Closets and Others

For years, it has been my ritual to clean up my closets during Holy Week. I'm not a Catholic so it doesn't have any connection with Holy Week. It just happens that it is the time of the year when I have nothing else to do but stay at home. So I always take that opportunity to reminisce and throw out things I don't need anymore.

My Mom has been complaining to me about the clothes hanged outside my cabinet. It's not that I don't have time or too lazy to keep them. There's no space available for them in my cabinet. I complain to myself every morning that I have nothing to wear but in reality, I have too many clothes that I don't know what to wear anymore. Even if I already donated some of my clothes last year to Ondoy victims, I still have a lot. So this week, I'll be sorting them again. My Dad already has a list of people who will receive the ones I don't wear anymore.

I need to arrange my shoe rack to make way for new shoes that I will be buying for the new school year.

I will sort out the papers and files stacked in my room. In all the rooms in our house, my room has got to be the most fire hazard because of all the papers I have. Seriously. I need to be more organized.

As for my books, I just need to arrange them. I haven't bought any book since August last year so all of my books has a place to stay.

I will also clean up my files in my laptop and iPod Touch. I have lots of pictures and videos in my laptop so I need to to put them in a disc. My iPod Touch has some applications that I rarely use so I need to delete them.

I also need to update my book blog, fashion and beauty blog, barkada blog, and this. Most importantly, I need to update my journal. I haven't written there for so long. I really need to brush up on my writing.

Lots of things to do. But I don't mind. After all these cleaning and updating, I would feel totally renewed. For some time, I felt lost to the point of not knowing myself anymore. Now I'm starting anew and picking up the pieces of myself that got lost along the way. I forgot the dreams I had and they are slowly coming back to me. I still want those dreams to come true. And today is the right time for me start again.