Tour

"Let your mind start a journey to a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be... Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before."

-Erich Fromm    

    September 1, 2011. At Christmas countdown eve [the 'Ber' months], I prepared myself for a significant activity that should've been, for the last year of my high school life. An activity which physical, emotional, spiritual, mental and social aspect are involved.

    T'was an educational tour for the whole community of St. James Academy... I woke up around four o' clock, take a bath, worn the instructed attire, fixed everything for this wonderful day. I arrived at school with the help of my father, went to the gymnasium where everybody were gathered. Ms. Salvador our Coordinator for this day was speaking about packs in all aspects we will have on that day. Me and Xerishya waiting for our friends gladly welcome our adviser's arrival. She led us to our bus number, and only two of us went there to guard it from others who would've mistaken their bus number respectively. I'm so glad that the bus we're in have wi-fi, therefore I can update my classmates about our location using my phone's interactive Google Map. My classmates, all the other students of our school arrived on their respective buses.

    We had Sister Emily with us, Ms. Roque, Campus canteen asistant, and the new faces for our trip namely Kuya Bong the tour guide, Kuya Rene the bus captain-driver and the other one who's name I didn't recognize or heard. Then we go. We all stared with a prayer, the praying of the Holy Rosary [became a tradition every educational tour] which was led by Leo and Me. My classmates was inattentive that's why Sister Emily became mad and said that 4th year students didn't know how to pray the rosary.

    After everything was settled up for the first destination, the tour guide instructed us so many...