Insects

None in those pictures above is what I’m trying to tell a story about. I’ve been around villages in different seasons, and yet this is the first time seeing these parading insects that bug everyone at home. It gives me gooses. They’re tiny ones, harmless but annoying. And no insect spray could harm them too, they say.

Watch when they spread all over the house – you couldn’t sleep at night – they will share a bed with you – like thousands of them. They stay in wooden houses and come out only in rainy days – and when they come out, they plague.

Here they ate instead

Puppies

It broke my heart giving our puppies away – a granted wish out of grouse. I wasn’t ready after all. They had to go since they weren’t really taken cared well. I’m not guilty because I did my best feeding those cuties. It’s just sad because everyone is too busy. Besides they didn’t really get much love from people here.

It’s quieter now for a while, but like previous years when we had dogs around, sooner or later will have another opportunity to adopt barking creatures. I may not be a dog freak – at least I’ve learned to care about them.   

C.U.R.E.

As an ESL teacher, it’s always a failure to come up with activities or lessons that aren’t well thought – it’s like yielding into temptation of assumption – totally a waste of time. I can tell if the lesson prepared is really well considered. And it frustrates me how guessers provide mediocre education.

Have to remind myself as often as possible about this “C.U.R.E.” advocacy – at least to me – to avoid nonsense lessons. I’d say curriculum must be contextualized to learner’s culture and level; upgrade the educator’s skill and also the learner’s knowledge; revise it if necessary; all these along with emancipation.

Including Animals

I never owned a dog by intention, but for every puppy I’d shown love in the past was someone else’s. Like these puppies we have for now, was brought by somebody who’s obviously a dog-lover. Again, I prefer cats over these barking pets.

“Be kind to animals” all the activists would say – and so I care; and so I feed them each single day. But the owner isn’t doing the responsibility. And so I began whining about it. Then it came to my senses that service actually doesn’t limit to serving humans alone – it includes even the animals not mine.