My visit to Cebu

Exhausting i should say! Oct. 15 when we arrived in cebu, it was a bad flight. It must have been the pilots' first flight,..Anyway, we manage to went there safe. Tired though, my excitment prevails...Changes,changes,changes! Big structures sprouting like mushrooms, development must have been so dear in cebu. I would say, cebu is booming!
Well, the retreat?...of the many learnings i got, there are few things that i easily remember, like the "finger," and the song "you raised me up" by josh groban...the finger is the anology given by our speaker Fr. Paco, a former benedictine monk and now a diocesan priest, who said that in pointing something, we should not stick to the finger, instead, we should look on what it points. we transcend, he said...more or less that was the tone of the talk...the funny thing was.. while fr paco was so serious on this, some of my companion (many are priests) started to go beyond transcendence..they even went up to heaven, by imagining what other things finger can do aside form pointing..(you know what i mean,hahaha..) you see, we're so advance, lol!!! and the groban thing?...i never heard anyone who sings "you raised me up" the way fr. paco sang it...it was disaster on the part of josh groban and on the composer,hahaha...but you see, 'twas very effective that untill now, i sing that song not anymore in the version of josh Groban, but more so on Fr paco's..lol!!!
Bohol..we went there and stayed in our formator's residence in Getafe. we are bombarded with delicious sea foods like shells and fresh fish..my apetite was 101% working that time,hehe..it was like hell,lol!!!....we went to a house floating on the sea, and started to get our glasses of beer and brandy,hehe..it was so hot but i still manage to enjoy myself fishing, i caught many enough to feed a family, maybe not a family of my own,lol!!! during that night, some of my brothers who's passion is singing, (though music has no passion on us,hehe) went to see a videoke bar, luckily there is one, but the thing is, we have to wait for an hour for our slot to sing...oh my..!!!! i bought five calamays that time at 20 Php. each,hehehe...
back in Cebu, in the seminary, we started our carmelite classes...we started with the history of the carmelites, in the first day, the life of titus, on the second, JPIC on the third, while the topics on the life of st. john of the cross and the summary of all the topics was given at the Pangga Bata Foundation at Carmen Triumpo... i miss the place, i used to go there when i was still a college student...
ohh..i almost forgot our "hang-outs" with my batchmates....my classmates now are all gorgeous! they are all coming out from a cocoon,hehehe...we went to paseo, a nice place for hanging out...i miss them and 'twas a good time seeing them..and mind you, we're planning to hold a reunion again by december, this time a more organized one...i hope to see some of them that i haven't seen during my visit here...i smell beer and vodka already,hahaha
the time to said goodbye....Oct. 27 was our flight back here in manila...our time of departure was set at 645pm. but when we checked in..we were told the scheduled flight was moved to 745pm.then later, moved at 845pm (my goodness!) and we finally flew back here in manila at exactly 915pm...imagine that!!!! we were all starving that time...my temper almost statrted to get stir up, thanks to instant noodle soup,hehehe..after that we went directly to our house and ate a heavy meal....then took a rest for awhile. finally went to sleep at exactly 2ooam......snoring...groookkkkkk,grooookkkk .....

-melskiens-