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Mamaya siguro or bukas mag-uupdate na ako madalas. Anyway, gusto ko lang sabihin na sobrang saya mag-Brain Train. Ang saya nila mag-turo tas matatalino talaga yung mga teachers. Grabe lang. Sobrang saya talaga. :))

Brain Train!

Sabi samin, before 7 daw dapat nandun na. Wala rin. Mga around 7:30 narin kami pinapasok dun sa respective classrooms namin. Nung nag-iintay kami dun sa may mga upuan, may nakilala kaming pretty girl. Sam yung pangalan niya, tas ang ganda niya at saka nanunuod rin siya ng HIMYM. Kaso nga lang, hindi namin siya classmate. :(

Nakakatuwa kasi nagkataong magkakaklase kaming tatlo (Julia, Kim, Ako). Ang class namin ay CLASS TUTUBI. (22B) Dun sa list, magkatabi yung pangalan namin ni Kim kasi alphabetical, eh tas pareho ng school (malamang) kaya ang kyut tignan. (lol)

Lalo pang nakakatuwa nung seatmates kami ni Kim AND hindi kami nilagay sa pinaka-likod. Medyo magka-height kami eh, so baka sa likod ilagay yung mga matatangkad, pero buti nalang hindi. Second row pa kamo. :>

10 meetings lang yung review sa Brain Train, pero obvious na obvious naman na talagang mare-review ka. Yung mga teachers, kung hindi grumaduate sa UPLB ay nagtuturo sa UPLB. (UP WAAAA :’)) Tas nakakatuwa sila, hindi sila boring. :)

Nakakatuwa yung sa Reading Comprehension. Pinag-practice tests na kasi kami dun. Tas after mag-take ng test, papatayuin kaming lahat, tas for example, 30 items, sasabihin niya yung range of scores (26-30) tas uupo ka kapag nandun yung score ko. Dalawang beses akong umupo dun sa highest range ng scores. Ahihihi. :>

Yung kinaproud ko sa Reading Comprehension ay kinahiya ko naman sa Physics. Na-topic namin yung ibang bagay nung third year, pero yung iba hindi kaya medyo confusing. Madali lang naman siyang magets eh, onting tiyaga lang. :)

May assignments na kaagad kami. Okay. Lol. Gagawa ng 500-word essay. =))))) Hahaha imma try to begin now. :D

Sunod-sunod yung post ko hahaha. Kinailangan kong mapost na yung mga hindi pa napopost. First day na ng Brain Train bukas! Nakakakaba at nakaka-excite. Hahaha. Kailangan maaga akong magising. Huhuhuhu. Okay bye. :)

Trip to Sagada! [ Day Three ] *(^_^)*

We woke up early to catch the sunrise. Luckily, we were able to! Hahaha. Even though we moved so slowly. I didn’t even have time to put on my earrings. :))

After that, we ate breakfast, then we were on the way to the Strawberry Fields. My sister and I took lots of pictures and had a few laughs because of our faces. =))))))

Aaaaaaand we arrived at the Strawberry Fields. It wasn’t how I remembered it when I went here for the first time. For one, there wasn’t a lot of vendors and trash all around. :)))

My sister and I being vani again. Hello nga pala sa mga walis na nasa background namin. :))))

More pictures. Hahahaha. The big strawberry was cute, lol. :)

After that, we slept in the van again. It was long before we stopped again to take a picture somewhere.

Highest point in the Philippine Highway System! :))) It was a good thing that we stopped because I was feeling kinda dizzy because of the zigzag roads. After taking pictures, I was able to sleep. Yeaaay. :)

After that, it was nighttime. We were still on the road, and we stopped over somewhere to have dinner. Coincidentally, it was where our class also had out stopover (last exposure). Blah blah blah it was around midnight when we reached SM North Edsa. From there, we took a taxi. Home sweet home. :)

Sobrang saya talaga nung Sagada Trip! :>

Trip to Sagada! [ Day Two ] *(^_^)*

We we’re staying at Ligaya’s. The place was really beautiful so we took lots and lots of pictures. :)

The right picture is my current profile picture in Facebook. Hahaha. With very little edit, of course. :)

After that, we were supposed to go to Bomod-ok Falls. We were given a stick so we can go down easier. It was such a tiring walk! It was so tiring that I didn’t notice that it was just an hour. When our class went to our exposure, we were walking for almost 3 hours, with the sun beating down on us. Ni hindi nga ata sementado yung dinadaanan namin nun eh. Coincidentally, I was wearing the very same slippers. (GO ISLANDER SLIPPERS! ♥)

Finally, we reached the falls. It was really, really tiring so I drank water first, then rested for a while. I changed my clothes to something more suitable for swimming, then we faced the cold water of the Bomod-ok Falls! :) Yeay for cold water yeay yeay! :D

(left picture: before swimming. right picture: after swimming. I changed my top hahaha)

It was my second time swimming in the waterfalls. i forgot where the first one was. I don’t remember how old I was, but I remember which swimsuit I wore. It was black, with hot pink outlines and such. :)))) The water is very, very cold but also very, very refreshing. :> After that, we ate lunch. 

That’s a picture of the slippers that my sister and I wore. (take note that it’s both Islander!) Sadly, the violet one is not mine. Actually, the blue one is not mine as well. It’s both owned by my sister, but I’m using the blue slippers.

After that, we went to the Hanging Coffins. Unfortunately, it started to drizzle, so the path that we passed just to get there was really slippery. It was just like in the caves, but the mud is more dirty and yucky. (T_T ew much) Again, you will fear for your life. Before going to the coffins, you had to pass through the Echo Valley. It was cool. Hahaha. :)

On our way back to the van, we passed through this rock climbing area, so we took lots of pictures here. :)

More picture taking in the Echo Valley (ft. the cemetery). In the first picture, that’s the spot where you shout. You know, and wait for the echo. :)) If you will notice, that is my current dp. I made it my dp long before I even blogged about Vietnam. :D

The following pictures are when we reached the top. We were just resting for a while, before going to the next destination. Hooray for more pictures! :D

Trip kong i-post ‘tong picture na ‘to kasi ang singkit ko na naman. May mga pictures talaga na sobrang singkit ko, pero hindi ko lang pinopost lol. =)))))

After that, we went to Sagada Weaving. No pictures allowed! It was really nice seeing how they made those products. :)

Yoghurt House! It’s where we ate our dinner. You see those chairs at the top? That’s were we ate. Hahaha. It was very fun seeing people pass by while you’re eating.

Sorry for being so vain. T_T I was just so bored waiting for my yoghurt (which, by the way, was very yummy) so I took lots of pictures. :( Our dinner was also served in very large portions, just like our lunch the day before. :)

After eating dinner, we went back to Ligaya’s. It was okay that we went home early because we need to arrange and pack our stuff because it’s our last night already. :(

Trip to Sagada! [ Day One ] *(^_^)*

I don’t know how long the van ride was, but we stopped here and I woke up because we need to take a picture. Sobrang bagong gising ang itsura ko. Lol. It’s supposed to say “Welcome to Banaue” but as you can see, there’s no C. Hahahaha. :))

We stopped in the view deck. Behind our faces is the Banaue Rice Terraces. :)

Eventually, we reached Sagada. We had our lunch at Sagada Lemon Pie House. Obviously, they’re famous for their lemon pie. I expected too much. Hahaha. It was kinda disappointing. Their meals are served in big portions. The food is enough for two people, but I love eating (and the food tastes good) so I was able to eat everything on my plate. :3

I just really love this picture. My sister and I looks so cute. (pagbigyan!! hahaha) :>

After that, we begun our 4-hour caving experience! We went inside the Burial Cave. As you can see in the following picture, those are coffins. They are inside the cave, not hanging out with the other coffins. (literally not hanging out. they’re inside the cave so they’re not with the hanging coffins somewhere in Sagada hahaha)

I was wearing shoes, and it may have been my biggest regret. Wait. No, erase that. My biggest regret is bringing a bag. Wait. My biggest regret is wearing shoes. I regretted bringing a bag, but then I was thankful that I brought it. Inside my bag was another set of clothes.

The leggings that I was wearing was the same one that I wore when we went to Cu Chi Tunnels in Vietnam. Napansin ko na kagad na medyo lumuluwag na yung pagkatahi, pero hindi ko pinansin. I brought the leggings to our trip to Sagada. Wrong move. We weren’t even halfway when my leggings had a hole. Thankfully, I had maong shorts inside my bag AND it goes well with my outfit. Point one - the tear in my leggings can be seen. Point two - my outfit looked better. Point three - hindi na masyadong madulas kapag umuupo kasi friction. Maong eh. =)))))

There were some areas where it was really, really, REALLY slippery so you had to hold on to the rocks for your dear life. Oh! There’s another thing that I regret — wearing a white shirt. To be really specific, wearing my favorite white shirt. It’s my favorite because it looks good on me, compared to other white shirts. Your clothes will serve as your punasan ng maruming kamay. :)

There were some areas of the cave that others were required to remove their slippers because it would be easier to go down, but I didn’t remove my shoes. I refused to remove it unless I would have no choice. When I saw that we were supposed to cross the water, I immediately removed my shoes and kept it in my bag. Having a bag while going through that cave was really a burden, but it served a great purpose. I was able to cover up the hole on my leggings, and I didn’t have to carry my shoes around. Hahaha. :) After that, I was barefoot.

There are parts where you will fear for your life. You’ll see an obstacle and think, “We’ll be able to go through that?!”, and when you do pass that part, you just want to shout, “BUHAY PA AKO WOOOOH!”. You’ll feel very proud of yourself.

While going deeper into the cave, you are going down, so when we were tired of walking, we had to climb the rocks and other stuff just to get out of the cave. Since you’re going up, you need to think of the people behind you. If you fall, other people are going to fall as well. Think about that. Hahahaha. :)

After climbing slippery and steep slopes and holding on to muddy rocks just to live, you need to walk up a flight of stairs. Imagine that. Four hours of walking through rocks and mud and everything, then you’re going to climb up the stairs?

My thigh muscles really hurt. <//3 It was a looooong flight of stairs. After getting out of the cave, I was really thankful and was like, “BUHAY PA AKO! NAKAKITA NA ULIT AKO NG SKY! HINDI NA PURO BATO ANG NASA PALIGID KO!!!”

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Sobrang nakakakaba, nakakapagod, nakakatakot dahil baka mamatay ka nalang bigla kapag nahulog sa bangin, nakakaewan kasi pagkatapos mo malagpasan yung isang mahirap na part ay meron pa ulit kasunod kaya wala ka nang time magsaya sa previously nalagpasan mo. Despite all that, sobrang worth it! Sobrang worth it talaga!

Dahil nga kinailangan kong tanggalin yung shoes ko, barefoot nalang ako after that. Ang sakit umapak sa mga bato. Ang sakit sa paa, pero may okay na kapag nakatapak, at least mas mararamdaman mo kung madudulas ka na. Kapag naka-tsinelas, baka akala mo steady ka na yun pala hindi pa. Ang nakakainis lang kapag barefoot, ay yung masasakit na bato. Yun talaga eh. :))))

Mahirap kapag onti lang kayo. Dapat marami para maraming aalalay sayo. Hahaha. Most of the time nagpapatulong ako, lalo na kapag sobrang dulas at sobrang tarik na part. Sobrang hirap i-blog ng experience! Sobrang saya at sobrang worth it. You guys have it experience it for yourselves. ♥