Hello Ajuy!

"It would be really nice if I got lost in a middle of a forest, together with my friends. We'll have some adventure and we'll be survivors. Then, we'll see ourselves on TV! Isn't that nice?" I stared at Jacque like she was the craziest person on earth. But pretty much, I like her idea.

Our field trip yesterday was filled with different emotions: excitement, anxiety, frivolity, enthusiasm and blah, blah, blah. I was really excited to go to Ajuy. First time in history. Luckily, I got to sit beside the window so I was able to see the beautiful sceneries clearly. I got to see every single person stare at our bus. Some waved, some stared like seeing a bus for the first time. Some smiled; some scowled. The lush fields were refreshing to look at. The hills were so amazing that I thought they were the Chocolate Hills already. After two long hours, we reached Ajuy. I looked around and all I could see was a sea of green. We were between valleys so it's like we're locked in a green container.

We met Mr. Regulus, the owner of the camp and he oriented us about it. First stop, the waterfall. But before you reached heaven, you gotta go through hell. The way to the waterfall was like crazy. With a wrong step of your foot, you might slip and voila! Dead on the spot. While my eyes were watching my every step, my hands were taking pics of every pretty, weird things for Bio. My classmates and I can't help but give a little scream every now and then. After the 3-5 minute walk, heaven. I stared in awe at the waterfall. Honestly, it was my first time to see one personally. Amazing. Some of my batch mates were posing already in front of the cam. Some were drinking from the waterfall. I wanted to try it too! So, without hesitating I went to the foot of the waterfall and I drank its crystal clear water. Aaaaah! Refreshing! Then, my classmates and I sat on big rocks; we posed and smiled. After that, we made the perilous walk back to the main camp where we would eat our lunch.


"Physically fit students are allowed only." So the physically fit went up the high hill. Our facilitators told us that this would be one of our greatest achievements in life. Although, my sister Pauline told me that going up the hill was definitely hard and dangerous, I didn't believe her. I thought it would be easy. Ha! Silly me. I was excited at first but when I did my first step, I was nervous. I thought of the consequences. They were scary but they did not hinder me from achieving the risky goal. Luckily, the sun was out and his heat was not torture. Step by step we went up the hill and it became scary. When we were in the middle of the hill, several can't do it anymore so they sat. I envied them, really. I felt I can't go on further but if I did I just wasted my time. Anyway, we achieved it! And it felt really good...

But the problem was, how could we go down? We thought going down would be easy peasy. But it was terrible than hell. I felt like crying back there but thank God, the plants were my saviors. Thank God too for the manongs and manang there to help us. Because of them, we survived. My friends and I lost our way. We went to a different route back to the main camp. For a while, I thought JAcque's crazy idea was turning into reality. But manong, our knightin shining armor was there with his beautiful horse. He accompanied us back to the main camp. We looked horrible but it was fine. We had a lot of fun.

After resting, we went to Gawad Kalinga and learned an important lesson. That is, to be thankful to God for all the blessings we have received. For one thing, I thank God for this wonderful field trip. It was unbelievable.

Our field trip in Ajuy was anything but ordinary. It was extraordinary.

...

hey.
I feel angry.
hurt.
I can't tell what I am angry about. I just feel angry. I want to shout and scream. But I just can't because luckily, I still have control of myself. I can't tell what I am angry or hurt of. I'll just stop thinking about it so that I could be happy again.
But I'll never forget this.

I'm savin'! Okay?

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