Calamba escapade...

I went to Calamba this afternoon with Wawen, Yvan, Gen, Yvonne, and Marice. We left the school at around 1:45 pm. Our first destination was Bahay ni Maria. I was thinking that we will have a nice talk with the nuns because we plan on doing our outreach program there. Unfortunately, they did not welcome us there. They didn’t even open the screen door. They just talked to us from the inside and they don’t seem to be hospitable. We asked if we can schedule our outreach on October 28 and they even commented that it was not even soon. But when they checked their schedule, the whole October was already fully booked. We even asked if could have an advance schedule on November. They said that they can’t book us yet and told us to come back on November instead. They didn’t even give us some background about the street children aged people living there. And they said that they have no means of communications when we asked for their number so that we can just call instead of going there. They didn’t even asked if are we all students or what are our plans when we do the outreach. It really shows that they were not interested. We even said that we were referred by the Rotary Club of Laguna Technopark because they already did some outreach there. One thing that really pissed me off that time was when the nun told their caretaker to close the gate right after we said good bye. We have some back-talks because we went all the way there for nothing. They are the ones who will benefit and we are the ones who will shoulder the expenses for our outreach. Then, we decided to look for other possible places to have our outreach.

We planned to just go back to school because there is nothing to do there anymore. Fortunately, there were some of us who haven’t gone to the house of Rizal. So, we decided to drop by since it is open anyway. We only stayed there for less than an hour because a school was having a field trip. Too bad we were not allowed to take pictures.

Then we decided to go back to school. When we were at the ABI exit, the e-pass was working. We were surprised because we all thought that the e-pass was empty. And the traffic was heavy at the cash/coupon lane going to Calamba. If only we knew that we can still use the e-pass, we could’ve been in Calamba earlier. But there was nothing we can do anymore.

Before we headed our own separate destinations, we ate at Guilly’s Grill because it was Yvan’s birthday yesterday. The crew sang “Happy Birthday” and gave her a complimentary slice of cheese cake.

Our Calamba trip started unpleasantly but it ended really well.