If you are a graduate of Bukidnon Normal School or  Bukidnon State College or Bukidnon State University then we have  to meet again as alumni on April 30 to May 2, 2015. So take two for clarity, let us reserve April 30, May 1 and May 2 of 2015 for by then  it is a Grand Homecoming for all of us who love our Alma Mater.

Make it a point to visit Malaybalayan.blogspot.com to read all the details. Malaybalayan is the chairperson of the Publicity Committee so she needs you fellow alumni. Give your e-mail address or cell phone number so we can personally follow you up.

So tell all our friends that our next big date is the Grand Homecoming on April 30 to May 2, 2015. 

Many months have passed by and still my enthusiasm level was and is on its all time low. Then like any thing in this world, one day gives you a wake up call and its message, blog! So here goes fellow teachers . . . 

In the midst of the craziness of our respective schedules, do you agree with me that there is this tugging feeling that out there is the world of information and a wide range of readers like you? This alone forces me to get hit in the head and allows my right side of the brain to go blog!

Like today, August 17, 2014, Sunday, while most of you out there are doing so many odd things especially to just relax and smile to yourself, I call on you to read my blog of the day and include me in your reverie :). 

For one, teachers like us only have few moments to ourselves. Girl Scouts for example have decided to hold an on-the-spot essay writing contest this coming September 13 a precursor for Josefa Llanes Escoda celebration on September 20. Expect more details about this in my renewed zest to blog because you are there to read and respond to it.

For another, I am one of the many teachers who will soon retire come July 1, 2015, my 65th birthday. This day will be my last day of service in Bukidnon State University. I have a sad thing to share though. After teaching all my life in various schools, college and universities, I forgot to consider that to receive a pension in a public institution one has to have a minimum of 15 years of service. In my case, I forgot to do my job well for I did not count well so I found out recently I have only 13 years to my credit so I could only avail of "take home cash" and no pension. Agghhh!!! I am so disheartened so I am still wishing a miracle will happen to change my luck. Fellow teachers, learn from my negligence, make sure you take care of your GSIS payments for at least 15 years or you will experience the same fate I am about to bitterly swallow.

Fellow teachers, may I know how many we are who have each other to follow so we can organize a group of bloggers and plan course of action to inspire each other when lean months come along . . . Take care and 'til the next blog . . . (y)

Teachers recite their classes everyday, every week the whole year round. So when Summer comes which fall in April and May, these months are heaven-sent. So I am in heaven myself for I am off this summer. Indeed summer is a time to invigorate one's sagging enthusiasm. However this contentment is barred due to the pending requirements that are just endless. The happiness that is long awaited becomes incomplete because of this scenario. So more and more I am looking forward to my retirement early next year when the only requirement is to make use of time according to one's plan for the day without any paper to correct and meetings and seminars to attend to.

Just the same, since teachers are very creative and productive amid all the chaos of being employed.

So hello summer. And soon enough, hello school year 2014-2015. 

After a long respite, here comes your Teacher's teacher blogging in. This month of the New Year - 2014 - our main discussion will be more about Peace Education. This is mainly because this blogger-teacher is teaching Peace Education for her load of the semester. I have eight (8) classes of students all ready and eager to hear more of Peace: its main concepts, the various perspectives about it, the role models we have who made Peace their life's statement, their lifestyle. 

So let us make 2014 a year of Peace - a year that has to work for it for around us are negations of it. Let us make January, the first month of the Peace year. Are you in?

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