Just got back from a 13-hour trip that involved zigzagging through two mountains quite down south and at the east -- Laguna and Rizal.
It was my second time within the quarter to visit Caliraya to check sites for our tree-planting activity, which is the third phase of our recently-launched environmental program. Given the scenic view of the lake and as well as the fresh air of the province, I wanted to run around in the open... arms stretched and shouting with much excitement like a child. Or maybe, I could sit on the lone bench by the edge of the lake to do my inextravagant favorite hobbies: to read, write, draw or just reflect.
But I couldn't.
I had to work. I had a two-week deadline to meet. No, make that just a week. Though I'm glad that I have more experienced colleagues who are there to back me up, I honestly feel like if one tiny detail is overlooked, I'll be, well, a failure.
Anyway, the only therapeutic thing that I was able to do was to obsess myself with some native jewelry holders in Paete. I do not really know what to do with them so I guess I'm selling the others on my Multiply shop: http://smartdresser.multiply.com. The meals and the conversations were also great. Don't I always, always love long drives, good food and the conversations that make them all the more better?
It rained when we were on our way home. How I wish I could've gotten out of the car and let the child in me come out to dance in the rain.
Gah. I have to go.
Note: The picture above will be our planting site. (Taken on my first visit last July.) Volunteers can take off their clothes, leave them by the bank and do seven laps to get to the islet in their birthday suits. I think a volunteer can plant as much as 15 seedlings there. Hehe.
More pics of the site and out R&R area to be posted. You'll lavet!
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