Orientation Time with Meaningful Travels
Orientation time with Ann Marie "Naknak" Cunanan of Meaningful Travels PH before starting our journey towards barangay Maligcong where aside from the community outreach, our side trip is to admire the grandeur of the Maligcong Rice Terraces, and the following morning is to hike Mt. Kopapei to witness the sunrise from up above the mountain top overlooking the rice fields down below.
You can see from the video our masterplan for the visits and even discussed how we would introduce ourselves to the kids. But you know how I introduce myself, and that is always asking them to yell out the iconic shout-out cum greeting of "Wazzup Piipinas!!!!"
At barangay Maligcong, not all expectations were met especially on our climb to Mt. Kopapei where one of us was even slightly injured (but only really really slightly probably because we forgot to do some warm-up and stretching before we started our early morning hike). ...and also it had been a long time since we last climbed a mountain. I was even catching my breath forever to the top. How many stops I made just to rest? I lost count...but I always use the excuse of my guide, Clement, taking photos of me as a way to rest. Clement can now add to his portfolio the job experience of being a photographer. Hehehe
What we are proud of is to have successfully distributed school supplies at the targeted school there, where we also conducted games for the children, and ate locally available meals together with the newly-discovered snacks like "Patupat" . Likewise the communities there prepared food for sharing of all. Barangay Maligcong allowed us to stay at their classrooms for the night, while the community at Barangay Mainit even prepared special performances participated by parents, teachers, barangay officials and students.
My colleague, Collin, even got to persuade the folks at both barangays to pose for him wearing their traditional clothing. That's my friend, who is always able to charm his way to get a photo shoot especially from good looking subjects of the female kind. Well, you will expect that from a person who is always around beautiful women joining pageants, modelling and fashion events. Sometimes, I would even be jealous because I thought he was supposed to take photos of me...Lol!
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