THE TEACHER'S WARNING

This picture came from my colleague, Rhyz Gomez. Lately, we've experienced headaches on the children we love and teach. My! My! Adolescents are indeed challenging. We are in an environment where flabbergasting is of course unacceptable from the mouth of a teacher. We can be firm but we will always respect dignity.

However, we found ourselves laughing at the picture where she was tagged in. Thanks to Facebook . LOL! This is not to sound condescending on any of our Erdkinder children. In fact, you will fall in love 69 times to all of them.

Teachers are also humans and are never perfect. They're flawed that's why they teach. There are just days when they want to say "Hey, i told you several times" like a nagging mother. Simply because THEY'VE BEEN THROUGH LIFE .....and THEY WANT YOUR LIVES BETTER THAN THEIRS.

Wow! Kudos to Rhyz, my new Erdkinder colleague, my newfound friend and hopefully, an eternal daughter. Toinkz.

AMBIVALENCE PILLOW

REMEMBER THE STRIPED ZEBRA?

Oh my my! How can a zebra be not striped in the first place ...
I just remembered Shel Silverstein's "The Zebra" when he said ...
"Am I black with white stripes or
am I white with black stripes?"

AMBIVALENCE ...
that's how the zebra felt.

When it comes to people and relationships,
I do acknowledge that no matter how you try ...
There will be those who will like you
And there will be those who don't and won't ...

A friend has just reminded ..
You simply can't force it if they don't ..
And though I know that principle for like ages now ...
The human side of you irks ...

But, yes, on the brighter side, people have realities ...
And though my reality is yet to be understood ...
I must and I always choose
to respect people's realities...

So my knees are sharpened again ...
Saying that at the end of the day ...
It is always a matter of choice ...
to be "white" with black stripes ...
or ...
to be "black" with white stripes ..

My only option ...
is
FAITH
... in people and in their realities ...

We all have shoes to wear ....

HUA MULAN

I TOOK THIS FACEBOOK CHARACTER TEST AND THE RESULT ... I HAVE THE COURAGE OF MULAN ...
WELL, TO SOME DEGREE, I AM AFFIRMATIVE.

I LOVE MY PADI IN THE SAME MANNER THAT MULAN DID. AND I AM UNORTHODOX JUST LIKE HOW SHE WAS ... AND YEAH ... THE FEELING OF BEING "UNFIT" FOR THE KING HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE BUT WITH THE TENACITY OF AN EMPRESS... LOL!

CHECK OUT HER HISTORY BELOW...

Hua Mulan is a heroine who joined an all-male army, described in a Chinese poem known as the Ballad of Mulan. The poem was first written in the Musical Records of Old and New from the 6th century, the century before the founding of the Tang Dynasty; the original work no longer exists, and the original text of this poem comes from another work known as the Music Bureau Collection, an anthology of lyrics, songs, and poems, compiled by Guo Maoqian during the 12th century. The author explicitly mentions the Musical Records of Old and New as his source for the poem. Whether she was a historical person or whether the poem was an allegory has been debated for centuries—it is unknown whether the story has any factual basis.

THE ABBA'S ORCHARD WEBSITE

THESE ARE PAGES THAT YOU WILL FIND IN THE SCHOOL WEBSITE WHERE I WORK (www.theabbasorchard.com)

AFTER 10 YEARS OF FRUITFUL WORK, THE SCHOOL HAS PROVEN ITS EXISTENCE IN SIX CAMPUSES BY NOW.