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one week down and uhm....well, more to go. ha! i am getting the hang of this college stuff, even if it drives me up the wall sometimes.

i just love community duty, expecially when third years are around. you can boss them around and order them to do the dirty stuff in the health center; that is basically catering to snotty kids and grumpy mothers. haha, 'tis good to be a slave-driver, er, a senior that is.

today, we had a feeding program sponsored by the health center. haha, wished it were for us. i skipped breakfast so by the time i was at the center, my stomach was not pleased with me. the feeding program was supposedly for those kids who are below their normal weight and height or possibly on the verge of malnourishment. that's free food for you, dear reader. normally, that's the bait that health centers offer so that people, will, like go and have their selves checked up and inspected, because people will go in if the symptoms are really downhill already. and they get pissed off if the health workers can't do anything about it.

considering that the program is about nourishing kids with the proper vitamins and nutrients, i wondered why the food served was a glassful of sticky, chunky arroz caldo, with pieces of chicken added not for flavoring, but more of an afterthought ("hmmm, arroz caldo without chicken, is not arroz caldo....so here goes the chicken leg to be shared by a pack of hungry wolves we call children..."). i know the brgy. health center is 'kapos' of budget and all that, but surely, something more nutritious (and possibly, palatable) could have been served instead of plain rice swimming in plain soup. that's all carbohydrates, and believe me, a glassful is not enough to put in the desired bulk and adipose tissues on the frames of those skinny, hyperactive and snotty kids. nutrition and its applications is a long-term process; it's not just a feeding program when you feel like it, then believe that you have saved the world from malnutrition and diseases. the fact that the BHW kept on urging kids who obviously were not in for the feeding program proves that they lacked the preparation and dissemination. they probably meant good in sharing the arroz caldo with those kids, but then one BHW commented that they must reach a quota of kids for that day of feeding. it's still all about the image, the papers and the semblance of doing something else in the health center, aside from barking orders to the student nurses. however good the program was, it is still tainted by the motives.

hai hai. i really can't judge their actions. but it sure does bother me. tacky, tacky, tacky.

anyways, i am back in school. i have to jam in three chapters worth of lessons in my short-term memory so that i might survive another quiz. after my excellent performance on ,y first quiz, things have been going down hill. i got a 76 and an 81 after the 95. can't help it. my neurons fail to work when the clock strikes 5:30.

show-feedings and flunkable quizzes. hai, i don't know which one's worse.