MV DOULOS

Yesterday, the freshmen and we the sophomores had a field trip at the MV Doulos-the world's largest floating book fair. We had only half- day classes because the afternoon time will be for the field trip. We rode on a PUJ which will bring us to the ship. I was very excited, knowing that MV Doulos is only two years younger than the very famous Titanic. When we got up to the vessel, we were amazed because its like a library, there are lots of books. It offers a range of audio materials and books. There are books on medicine,religion,sports,architecture,gardening, spiritual and cooking.Their are also books on business, almanacs, atlas, dictionaries and there's even a translation book. There is a very good section of children's books and books that inspires. After reading and looking some of their books, some of us went outside to buy their ice cream and what we do not know is that we can not go back inside. We did not notice the sign that says once you are already outside the section where they displayed their books you can not go back inside. What we did was we ate our snacks their and read children's books because their's another section outside which they had children's books and cassettes. Our teacher helped us to go back inside by going down and he toured us to the lower deck which they performed. The crews introduced themselves to us and they also prepared games for us. Ther's another school too, the Asian Learning Center or ACL. In the last game that they prepared, they need two volunteers one from ACL and one from our school, UP. In that contest , they need to be active and fast. Because they need to wear the suit, then the life jacket, the helmet and lastly the gloves. It was so funny because our participant was the one who finished first but he was so slow when he removed all those things. In that activity they taught us that all those things were for protection. They taught us about God and they showed us a video about their lives on board.
I guess it would be the last time that it visited Cebu because the ship is very old. I learned that they change their crews every after two years. They needed volunteers even without salary . Its enough for the volunteers to serve the ship for two years and travel all around the world. They gave us religious books like Book Of Hope which contains stories about Jesus Christ. It gives you hope and it inspires you. It encourages you to be a good servant of God. Doulos was recognized as the o;dest active ocean-going passenger by the Guiness Book Of World Records, it would be a grest idea to visit MV Doulos. They will have their International Night on Friday at the Cebu Coliseum. If you have not visited it yet, you should before it leaves on Feb. 19. We had much fun during our visit their. You will see the cooperation of different people from differnt countries at the Mv Doulos. Evan if they have different skin color, language, beliefs and culture they still work together as friends. Visiting Doulos would be like travellind around the world.

PARENTS

"Children grow up to be adults, but Parents are Parents forever!"

Parents are very precious gift from God. Without them we won't be here. In the first stage of our lives our parents sacrifice a lot. We should be thankful to our mothers because when we are still inside their wombs they did not think of aborting us. Mothers can soothe our disappoints and calm all of our fears.There are times when only a Mother's love Can share the joy we feel when something we've dreamed about Quite suddenly is real.There are times when only a Mother's faith can help us on life's way and inspire in us the confidence we need from day to day. A mother doesn't like having her children sick, muddy feet, temper tantrums, loud noise or bad report cards. A mother is underpaid, has long hours and gets very little rest. She worries too much about her children but she says she doesn't mind at all.And no matter how old her children are, she still likes to think of them as her little babies.Our fathers became very hardworking so that he can earn and save money for our future.A Father means so many things...An understanding heart,a source of strength and of support right from the very start.A constant readiness to help in a kind and thoughtful way.With encouragement and forgiveness
no matter what comes your way. He gave us his name, his support,care and love. He don't want us to be hard-headed or to be a bad person when we grew up. He disciplines us. Our parents love us and care for us they can't bear us seeing that we are in great trouble or pain. They supported us in all the things we want.
But why do some children became hard-headed and rebellious? I have this cousin who is very rebellious.She don't want to stay in their home. Every Friday she pack some of her things and stay in her friend's house during weekends. She always gave her mom a problem. She's a member of a fraternity group. One day I asked her why doesn't she want to go home, she answered,"My mother doesn't love me". Your mother do love you. Maybe, she doesn't show it in the way you know but she really loves and cares for you. Maybe they don't want it to be obvious because we might be spoiled. They don't want us to be spoiled because time might come that they can not give us the things we want. They want you to be strong so that when problems and challenges come in our lives we can face it even without their advices. Because when we grew up maybe they are already very old and maybe we don't need to ask their advices anymore because we are already strong. They made us strong. What can we do in return for them? By showing respect to them as our parents. We should take good care of them when they will be very old . We should do even just these things to show our love to our parents. Remember that time will come that we will also be old and need our children's love and care!