With our school’s mission of targeting global improvement by addressing environmental solutions, I won’t be surprised if we eventually gear towards online learning or computer-based teaching. I mean, we’ve already started with paperless homeworks and activity sheets – an idea to conserve paper by just turning in assignments through emails. We’ve also been relying on the school’s own website for updates, programs, and events for the past month. What do you think would be next?

Everything in the school is slowly becoming online-based or, at the very least, computer-dependent. As a matter of fact, most of the teachers there are already buying laptops of their own. Even the students have recently been purchasing personal computers of their own too. We’ve also installed two wireless routers to make the internet more accessible to the different faculty members in the campus. It’s really starting to happen.

Pretty soon, even our curriculum will change. I expect we’ll be incorporating eLearning tools in our lessons and activities. Teachers would eventually consult eLearning companies like ResourceBridge for materials to aid them in their deliveries. And students would be required to bring their own computers to school for lessons.

It’s pretty scary if you think about it. But I guess that’s what moving forward means to some people. Anyway, if moving forward will eventually lead to environmental and global improvement, then by all means, let’s all get scared.

In order not to be late for the prom, andrea and I left home at around 6:30. I figured it would take us around 30 minutes to get to the place and I was right. We were there by 7. Unfortunately, I forgot that this was the type of event that usually starts late.In fact, it was almost 8 when the students started filling in the vacant seats and tables. But this post is not about what happened after the prom started. It is about what happened before.

You see, I didn’t even get to witness the start of the prom. Because when it started I was somewhere outside the venue. I was near the gate of the subdivision where the prom was being held helping out a colleague in trouble.

Anyway,  this was how it started.

A few minutes after we arrived at the venue, Sir Leo, a co-teacher of ours in hedcen, came. He and andrea started taking pictures of the place, the food, and some of the students who came early. Then, after some time, he came back asking if we know any convenient stores nearby – where he could buy batteries from. Andrea said she saw a small store just near the entrance to the subdivision. So Leo took off to buy some batteries.

Nearly half an hour later, a call from Leo came in. He asked if we brought a cable that he could use to jump start the car. Apparently, his engine died near the gate and he couldn’t get back. So I searched for cables from the car and from the drivers of the other cars in the area but no one had any cables. That’s when I decided to just go to him and check out what else we could do. When I got there, I saw the car. Leo and I tried everything we could but there was nothing we could do. So we just agreed to push the car and park it somewhere for the meantime. We’d just ask for help later. So after checking that the car was secured, we headed back to the party.

When we got back, it was then that i realized andrea and i didn’t come too early for the prom. We just came on time…

When andrea decided to go back and work part time in school, we were really worried about leaving mateo to his yaya’s care. First and foremost, cat (that’s the name of mateo’s nanny), was coming straight from high school. And second, she’s not related to mateo at all, not a cousin, not even a blood relative, not at all family. Lastly, with all the news on TV about babies being mishandled by their nannies, we were really afraid of letting her nor anyone else handle mateo alone.

We thought, if only his grandparents lived nearby then we would have someone we really trust to handle him for us, but unfortunately mateo’s grandparents live really far from us.

And because we were running out of options, we seriously considered installing hidden security cameras in the house just to see if cat would really be able to handle mateo properly. In fact, we even got to the point when we were already checking ITPlanet for the most appropriate selection of digital cameras to use. (We tried them out because they offered to match the lowest prices available in the market.) I admit, we were really getting desperate then.

It wasn’t until andrea decided to take a leap of faith and give cat one week of trial that we finally got some peace of mind. Because for that whole week, mateo didn’t meet any accident nor get sick. In fact, he showed growing affection for her nanny and that’s what sealed the deal.