i love the warmth, innocence and enthusiasm from this bunch of grade twos !

but taking photos with them is a chaotic experience o.o

you can literally feel their warmth cus you will be sweating buckets from having a whole lot of kiddos hugging/crowding around you at once in a poorly ventilated classroom or where it's sunny outside.

but i still love them hahaha.

i rmbr how they will put others before self. some of them kept fanning vick/me, or pulling us towards the standing fan or towards a seat. 

i also observed how some of them shared a pencil - which is heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time.

one thing which impressed me was how i could trust them to return things tht do not belong to them. we lent crayons and i personally lent to some of them my pens and they were all so quick to return them to me after they were done! vick and i didnt even have to instruct them to do that ! like woahhh. (haha i dont think it will be the same in sg o.o)

i see how happy they can be even when we treat them to a one peso frozen juice lolly among the other things we bought for them.

thank you for having me for those 3 days. it was a pleasure to be your maam/teacher haha. (aww and interesting that they respect us enough to perform the Mano gesture - something like Salam)

may you all study hard , grow up healthy and joyful (:

my grade 2s on day 1- still quite obedient haha

OMG I FOUND 4LEAF CLOVERS

it was really sunny in bien unido. these 4 boys escorted us to the nearest icecream stall which was a 10-15min walk away.  the cornetto icecream was soo shiok

lots of animals arnd! ive seen households rearing pigs, goats, chickens, carabao etc

nearby mama shop

oily hair and face after a long day in school

have you heard of a schoolboat? some (high school) children have to come to school by boat

 i rlly like the soft drink glass bottles!

friendly dog hehe

selfie since im alone in the room hahaha. (our room had the worst data connectivity and all of us had no running water for those 3 days. but the food and staff were great!)

beautiful sunset every evening

this is how the children cling to us whenever we go outside haha

"traffic light" by the pier

sending loveee from bien unido

surprise combined bday celebration for our dec babies! it was quite funny coordinating the rest of the team to write the bday cards. secret meetings in room08 with special passwords LOL

breakfast at 7+am but the sun looks like it's already 9am in sg