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Personal: Rude Awakening

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Personal: Of closures and full circles

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In gratitude friday, Personal

Personal: An Almost Gratitude Friday

I cannot remember the last time I created a gratitude list. In this journal I was able to coin such as Gratitude Fridays, listing down things that made me grateful in a certain week and post the list on a Friday. I found myself going back to such activity for there were certain ups and downs that I did experience and writing it somewhere in the cyberspace as a mind breather activity helps.

Today’s 31^st but it is the last day of January 2021, I felt lost and maybe looking into the things that I am thankful and writing it down might help in easing the “feeling lost” emotion. So here are some of the the things that made this list an almost gratitude Friday.

Meeting Ma’am Harry, Ate Donna, Judyland and Frenny Given, for the first time this January.

Going back to the station for the Division of Davao De OroRadio Based Instruction Program Radyo Z-eskwela at Z Radio. Getting our own shirts for RBI.

Collaboration with local youth development for Panag-ambit, a National Arts Month Celebration for our town.

Coming out of home quarantine.

Hearing a DJ greeting you on air also greeting your mom.

Reading Homebody by Rupi Kaur.

Helping co-teacher on the things they can develop.

Virtual Meeting together with Microsoft Education Ambassadors of the Region XI, being tapped to do another task related to that meeting.

Rain, for cuddle weather during work from home schedules.

Watching students’ submission for their final outputs. Getting excited to receive submission from them.

Brewing two school-related activities.

Finding out that TeachTech Nabunturan and Richard Arellano Nabunturan term is now redirected to another blog site I made for a passion project.

Tea Em’s Corner Sisig and Beef Silog.

Eating singkamas.

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Walking the main streets of Poblacion.

Finishing an online course at Coursebank.ph

Almost completing this list.

Endorsing milk teas.

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I guess. I do not know, I just felt that it is contrived in a sense that I felt I am not that of an influencer type of person, I never dreamed of becoming the Nabunturan version of Jane Aldridge of the Sea of Shoes or TriciaGosingtian, I just love the idea of sharing, not because of earning perks but for the sake of telling stories. Influencers are tapped because they have different ways of telling stories and that is what I like about influencers, they have stories to tell.

This was supposed to be a gratitude journal post but it turned out something way more different than I expected but the thing is I love the eventualities of my life for this month and that was important. February here I come.

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Personal: In a scale of a 1 to 10, how much you deeply love the person?

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Personal: The hurt will hurt unless you face it that it hurts

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Personal: Of questions and answers

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In Personal,

Personal: Active Citizens Leaders for Social Impact Experience

She's the one third of Messy Bessy.

She shared to us that the secret to a successful social enterprise is a combination of these three aspects: social impact + social innovation + sustainability.

Meeting the other Social Entrepreneurs

The whole experience was a beautiful exchange of insightful ideas. I was learning from others, I was able to get in touch with people whose causes seemed to get aligned with mine. Balaybalay 3D and Balud Books of Swito Twins Designs were Davao-based social enterprise that I can relate to because they are also advocating the preservation of culture from tribes all around Mindanao. Alfonga Pottery and Green Trikes(in its ideation stage) were cooperatives I got to share my views with. NACES Mindanao and Panginam o Bangsamoro Incorporated were cultural education initiatives that I got to get inspiration from. RisPh and Virtualahan are enterprises I hope that will soon exist in Nabunturan. John Louie and Cheryl of Balay Mindanaw, Melon of Gat's Garden, Liezel of Juana Urban Food Farming, Doc Budji of Balay Sa Hardin, Ma'am Grace of Heaven Scents, Queen of Append, and Sir Richard Celeste of FundGrow.ph were social enterprises that I got mingle with. Also Cheryl, Katrina Kendall- Miss Earth London 2015, Sir Romulo, Ma'am Crina were inspiring social entrepreneurs too.

The Pitching

We were able to pitch our own enterprise to Richard Rejas, Angel Flores, Marge Defensor, Chris So and Berns Uy with Apa documenting everything that is happening on the hall. I was the last person to pitch where I felt I was thrown in a pool full of sharks.

Tribal Performance

We were able to see tribes from Northern Mindanao, perform with their own musical instruments and see them sway with their own cultural dances. We also had the chance to converse with them, how it was different it was before.

The activities.

We are able to share our own strengths and weaknesses, express our own creativity on some activities, get hold of our listening skills getting facts, feelings and purposes. Also watched videos related to the creation of social enterprises. We mapped our community and site areas in our enterprise that is needed to be supported. We discuss market competition and the importance of our why.

We were able to define that a social entrepreneur should be resilient, passionate, engaging and a catalyst.

The exchange of idea and the realization that my social entrepreneur personality was a mixture of social missionary and innovator was an eye opener, that I have to work on some aspect of my manager side but not to be the whole of the three personalities. Because according to Marge, a business fails because the businessman tries to become the whole three personalities.

Dire Husi

The whole team got to see Rhyan Casino's Dire Husi, a social enterprise that utilize art with holistic approach in getting street children out of the streets.

Looking Forward to.

The only thing that I really want to happen is that I hope I can really achieve in doubling the weavers around C.H.A.I.N. and I hope I can launch the Chain Shoes soon.

Messages to the organizer.

To miss Marge, I still don't believe that you look younger than your age. To miss Angel you reminded me of someone who gives me so much laugh way back college. To sir Richard, I think that our names will not mean "a strong courageous king" anymore, it will be change to " a change maker". To Apa, I can relate to you much because my functions here in our place seems to be like yours, photographer/image editor/ and videographer. To Chris, I will be learning the technicalities of those financial statements. To miss Berns, you gave me the biggest push I have receive this year thank you very much. Your team has been a wonderful and the kindest bunch I've met. I am forever grateful to the all of you for making the 4 day workshop a memory worth keeping.

To the social entrepreneurs all around Mindanao, thank you for making the whole four days a wonderful journey.

It was said that the social enterprise is a global movement, that I am a part of it now. The hours of travelling to Northern Mindanao were worth it, I felt validated with the fact that British Council Philippines have chosen me to experience Active Citizens: Leaders for Social Impact Mindanao leg.

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