fun Friday
This afternoon I walked down to Baguio Gold Elementary School to ask the new principal, Mr. Nestor Asiong, if he’d like for me to tutor kids in fourth, fifth or sixth grade. Mr. Asiong took-over the school on Monday.
Unfortunately, he wasn’t at the school when I arrived, as was so often the case when I tried to reach his predecessor. The previous principal spent so much of her last week at the district office two miles away, preparing for the change of command. I briefly talked to the sixth-grade teacher, Mrs. Laoangan, who assured me that the principal would be on-site on Monday. I horsed-around with kids on the playground while Nick and classmates cleaned the grade-six classroom. Then Nick and I went downhill to his home. I asked Nanay about her health (asthma/blood pressure) as she finished hanging laundry. Rose came out to greet me, and after a while, we began to play Old Maid with Nick on the patio.
After Nick lost three times, I heard the jeepney honking, so I jogged to it to get a ride uphill. A few minutes after I arrived at home, rain began to fall. We haven’t had a horribly wet month though I’d anticipated one. But some afternoons we have light rain showers. So I’m glad that today I didn’t have to hike up Baguio Gold Road and Main Avenue in rain. †