Today, Saturday, was great.
I was able to help Ate Teena get a ton of stuff done for Stairway's scholarship program general assembly meeting, which is tomorrow morning. Stairway sponsors over 100 kids with all or some services such as tuition, food allowances, rides to school, uniforms, and school supplies.
Since school starts June 6th, the scholars and their parents will each have meetings to go over the program expectations and updates, and also to receive their school supplies. So after we worked in the office on a variety of things, we headed down to the new stage at the bottom of Stairway where all of the school supplies were starting to be packed up by everyone. I love when the entire Stairway family works on a project together. It always makes the work fun.
At the meeting tomorrow, Ate Teena will introduce me to the scholars and tell them about my research project so that they know I will be looking for survey participants.
Tonight I went down to White Beach with Becca, a Peace Corps volunteer, Annie, another volunteer, and two of the guys who work at Stairway. We sat and had a beer at Coco's, a small place on the beach where there was live, corny, cover music being played by guys who looked 13 but were probably 18 or 19. It is really cool having Becca and Annie here. They each have had some awesome experiences and have traveled a lot. Annie did the Peace Corps in Turkmenistan. And they are both really cool people in general. Coincidentally, Annie and I are taking the GRE one day apart in Manila in July. She is very good about studying for it, and that is definitely keeping me on my toes, because we all know how good of a studier I am ;)
