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Something different for today. Again, as I keep saying, you never know what the new day, the new week or the new month will bring, and this day was no exception.

I had no classes today, so besides having a letter printed out with the college administrative assistant even before 8am (as I said in the social networks I left Sto. Tomas for school at 5am) I was pretty much going to be doing work for the next few days, up to after Holy Week, during that time.

That is, until Miss Jenny called me again and said that there was no director around to guide some Canadian filmmakers who were in campus.

So I was the one volunteered. There were three of them, tall guys, obviously. And they wanted to film a specific student in her natural environs. I found out the whole story from their Manila police escort.

The student’s mother is an entrepreneur in Canada. People there actually want to show that drive to the locals, so they are making a documentary about the business, and how it has helped the mother pay for her kids’ education here, when for a time they even had to stop studying.

So they filmed in the girl’s Statistics class, in one of the empty classrooms, at the roofdeck, at the second floor landing where they could see the Founder’s statue and his 100 background for the Hi-Five concert the night before (that’s what it was! Partially it’s my fault for ignoring the poster outside Roberto’s) through the grilled windows of the central lobby, the flag as it waved slowly in the quadrangle, and at the president’s office when I wanted to show them the development plan.

Of course they were also going to the Volcano Lake Ridge view nearby, and they were also going to the former Clark Base.

Naturally during our lunch talk went to all the native foods they had to try, including the famous duck embryo, python, monitor lizard, and not without going to someplace in the woods at that, but at an easy-to-reach restaurant.

@@ Before I go to the next thing that I did today, let me just talk a bit about the concert. Apparently it was so loud that the 6 to 730pm classes last night of the college had to be called off.

Also, I guess the publicity machinery is still not in place because despite seeing a poster (which was very busy with a lot of small text in columns which is why I didn’t read it) there was also no mention on the school’s website, as well as when their graduation is going to be (was it today, tonight or tomorrow?).

Am getting parenthetically happy here, but then that’s part of what goes with stream of consciousness writing.

@@ Anyway, after the filmmakers left, Sir Mel and I went to a public school near Laguna Lake where our school not only has an advocacy of helping them get back on their feet after being devastated by the floodwaters and being used as an emergency evacuation center during the big typhoon, but we are also planning to bring some delegates of the eco-camp there to see damage from the flood firsthand.

Unlike one of the other communities that we were immersed in before though, this one does not have houses very near the lake shore.

But the water marks were still visible on the walls of houses along the streets and we plan to have the delegates interview some of the residents (and maybe students) as well for them to get a feel of what happened.