Mid-November

Arin's TOPIK Preparation
I'm still stuck with my November vocabulary list and well, I haven't been doing anything else related to Korean. Next week, I want to finish everything. I need to buy notebooks so I could start making my notes more organized. With that I could also start studying TTMIK lessons again. Oh and I need to print their Iyagi pdfs.

My Korean schoolmate told me I had to start with the Elementary first, but I'm stubborn so I'm going to take both instead hahaha.

First Volunteer Work

Philippine Red Cross 11/12/13

A friend of mine in facebook who also volunteers at KCC posted a status about the Philippine Red Cross needing volunteers. It was just the perfect thing for me since I've been itching to help out these people from Tacloban in whatever way I can. So I went there on my own and helped out.

We finished real fast because the shift before us had repacked almost everything. After 30 to 1 hour, more volunteers came. We just waited for the noodles so we could include it in the plastic bags. The person in charge thanked us all for coming. It took less than 30 minutes to finish distributing a few boxes of noodles to the packs.

The rest of the work required a lot of muscles and since a football team came, they did the work. So did the rest of the guys and some ladies who were strong enough to carry three 4 liter bottles of Wilkins up to the second floor.

Leaving Friend

 The Ramyeon Treat. 11/12/13

Wanting to volunteer was the first reason that I went to Manila. The second was to find the reason why my friend was going to file a leave of absence for a while. She said she might go home on the 3rd week so I just had to see her before she left.

It turns out that she was going to transfer.

Back to her hometown, seas far from here.

I usually don't mind not seeing people, including friends, knowing that I would see them again or that I could see them again. This time it's different. There's no way I can swim across seas to see her. She was my roommate too. It's sad and I'm thinking of a gift to give her before she leaves Manila for good.

I only have 2 days to think about that gift. 

I also realized that although we've been together the entire semester in the same room, we never took any pictures together. I must have a picture with her too.