Our life in school is heavily punctuated with the expected and the unexpected! As we began the new school year today, I said a prayer for every child on whose face I see the vision of my school realized. I also said a prayer for all of us who dared take this challenge of forming souls and enabling dreams.
There were faces that I missed for they have moved to a different environment maybe bigger than ours, more populated than where they came from, more lenient and less demanding in terms of making them work to full capacity and giving their best efforts, where friends of their "kind" can be found and which therefore, we cannot afford to give, a new country, a different culture.
Strikingly, I have seen the same phenomena one experiences near the sea, only that it is happening in this little corner of the world where HEDCen or The Little Farm House is. The waves that lap up the shore are the same waves that would retreat to the sea then back again, bye for now, back again...
To some of those who left, they come back. Back to the old folds of this school, this time never wanting to leave again.
So I meet all the new faces this morning coming from different little corners of the world. But I also have seen those who have rejoined us for a reason that is the least romantic- but bold and wise: the challenge that they have come to love and appreciate here, they could not find outside.
This year too marks the season when the grains are heavy and ready for harvest. I am joined by my daughter on my right and my son on my left! Not that there is any significance to where I have categorized them as I write. I am happy to be working with my own children, and to see them take care of this school the way they would a younger sibling.
It is not always ideal as I sometimes find myself with very little patience and sometimes, they being short of the same thing with me. But we do manage to sort things out. After all, I am their Center Director in school and Their Majesty at home! One thing that's never short here is their dedication and willingness to be mentored. I see them missing their meals or even forgetting to drink and I see them blink with headache or twitch due to fatigue since they started to take on the jobs. Not that it is a good thing. But they are really intense about making a difference! (So now you see that I will probably slug it out with anybody who who would accuse them otherwise!) :)
But on the whole, if I may tell their lolo and lola in heaven, with these two on the lead and joined by the Transformers a.k.a. HEDCen Faculty, there is no way this school is going to stop. New blood and unfailing dedication are everything a dream such as HEDCen will need. I thank their mentors, those who taught them, those who challenged them, those who made them bleed a little, some who shocked them, loved them, believed in them- most especially the children who inspired them, hugged them and made them cry a little and those who accompany them in their journey, in our journey together in making better people for better earth!
The HEDCen way is our prayer!
There were faces that I missed for they have moved to a different environment maybe bigger than ours, more populated than where they came from, more lenient and less demanding in terms of making them work to full capacity and giving their best efforts, where friends of their "kind" can be found and which therefore, we cannot afford to give, a new country, a different culture.
Strikingly, I have seen the same phenomena one experiences near the sea, only that it is happening in this little corner of the world where HEDCen or The Little Farm House is. The waves that lap up the shore are the same waves that would retreat to the sea then back again, bye for now, back again...
To some of those who left, they come back. Back to the old folds of this school, this time never wanting to leave again.
So I meet all the new faces this morning coming from different little corners of the world. But I also have seen those who have rejoined us for a reason that is the least romantic- but bold and wise: the challenge that they have come to love and appreciate here, they could not find outside.
This year too marks the season when the grains are heavy and ready for harvest. I am joined by my daughter on my right and my son on my left! Not that there is any significance to where I have categorized them as I write. I am happy to be working with my own children, and to see them take care of this school the way they would a younger sibling.
It is not always ideal as I sometimes find myself with very little patience and sometimes, they being short of the same thing with me. But we do manage to sort things out. After all, I am their Center Director in school and Their Majesty at home! One thing that's never short here is their dedication and willingness to be mentored. I see them missing their meals or even forgetting to drink and I see them blink with headache or twitch due to fatigue since they started to take on the jobs. Not that it is a good thing. But they are really intense about making a difference! (So now you see that I will probably slug it out with anybody who who would accuse them otherwise!) :)
But on the whole, if I may tell their lolo and lola in heaven, with these two on the lead and joined by the Transformers a.k.a. HEDCen Faculty, there is no way this school is going to stop. New blood and unfailing dedication are everything a dream such as HEDCen will need. I thank their mentors, those who taught them, those who challenged them, those who made them bleed a little, some who shocked them, loved them, believed in them- most especially the children who inspired them, hugged them and made them cry a little and those who accompany them in their journey, in our journey together in making better people for better earth!
The HEDCen way is our prayer!
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