One Week

So this week has seen a lot of Kapatid-ness:
- three nights of baking for Relay
- social justice-themed visit
- FHS PCN
- Relay for Life

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BAKING

It was pretty fun baking at Lantana (where else would we be baking?) for the days that I rolled out for it, although the fact that we needed to raise money by the 11th gave it an edge. On the first night, I sold at Rinconada with Gines and we were able to get rid of all the brownies and even get a few donations, despite Rinc already having a dorm team for Relay.

Notes for next time: start earlier. That's really the key to every problem we've had, it seems. We probably would've been able to not only earn more money, but get the hoodies/t-shirts that we wanted to get. Spring break really threw things off, so I gotta keep that in mind.



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THURSDAY

Thursday the 10th was the first Kapatid visit of the quarter and our theme was social justice. We asked some people to come present posters they'd made in the Filipino Identity ASB; good job, Paolo, Gines, and Herwin! In addition, Elisa also came as well as a ProFro PASU was hosting this weekend.

It turned out great. Sometimes it can be hard to get the kids to focus when it comes down to the more abstract issues like socio-political problems, but this time they all seemed to be making an effort to listen. They did get a bit tetchy by the last presentation, though.

Once again, the coinciding schedule of PCN rehearsals allowed us to get more mentee attendance, if only for right now. Hopefully we'll be getting some of those underclassmen to return, but I guess we'll see how that comes out the week after next.







I was concerned at first about holding the visit outside; I mean, everyone gets distracted when it's a great day. But the kids really focused.

Some things that didn't go too smoothly: getting an idea of who is coming to PYLC/retreat next weekend, and more importantly, communicating the ticking clock on the performance-based spring scholarship.

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PCN

So we went to the Kapatiddies' PCN on Friday night. Thanks to Cheri and Paula for driving! For it to have been their first annual PCN, it was pretty decent; definitely high school, but all things considered, big props. They got some help from other schools in the area, so it was likely more important for learning to collaborate and work as a team than for learning actual performance.

I for one was surprised (except not) to see so many of the Kapatiddies in leadership positions and it just made me really proud to see that.

And also, these kids are so freakin' Yay.

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RELAY FOR LIFE

Relay was a really fun experience. It was hot - murderously hot. Apparently, the turnout was much better than last year's, so that was a good thing to hear.

I had a lot of fun playing Contact (Cassiopeia!) and Picnic (and snakes…and snakes and snakes and snakes and snakes…) and PASU is just kinda crazy. Herwin can power walk like no other; A. Plan cracks me up every time; Lovie would probably survive if you pushed her into an oven; Rafael makes a mean fort; and the list goes on…

But it was just so HOT. Sweat everywhere.







Much love for PASU and Kapatid.

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~Richard