Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Only one of the twenty-four participants for the Student Leadership Camp arrived after the consecration in the Eucharistic Celebration, and I suppose she had good reason, because her arms were full of bug bite (from the first night) lotion.

Sir Ronnie the Student Affairs Director said that the mass officially ended the camp, although there was still the revelation of the “angels”, final instructions for the preparation to their assigned committees in the science camp and group picture taking.

The students rushed through the first two in their haste to go back home to their own beds, but they took their time with the third.

Just some things I forgot to mention about the Socials Night: the bonfire was started before the Energizer. After the Energizer, the third group gave out their wacky awards, then Sir Ronnie and I gave out the six awards determined by the facilitators. Not surprisingly, George the Student Council president was there, and also Mon the Student Assistant slash Commissioner for Socio-Civic Activities. What surprised us was Constantine the cafeteria concessionaire basher was given the Confidence Award.

There were only three participants who begged from the science camp: Lino, who was going back to Ilo-ilo immediately after the camp and would be returning at the start of classes (I’m surprised he even joined, when David’s brother Daniel didn’t show up from the Summer Capital); one of the representatives for the Theater Group, who would be vacationing out of town with her family; and Constantine, whose father was going to undergo an operation on the second day of the science camp.

Two days before the science camp would commence (on the afternoon of the freshman orientation) Mon and I also found out about one major glitch in our information dissemination campaign.

The letters informing the parents of the schedule of the camp and what the students were supposed to bring, as well as the parent’s consent form, were sent out not to those who had originally signified interest, but to the second list given to us by the Registrar’s office, which contained the names of those who had gotten high scores in science and math during the entrance exam. There were some overlaps between the two lists, but up until the day before the camp was to start, we were still getting calls from parents asking why they had not yet received the promised letters despite their original confirmation. Good thing technology provides us with fax and e-mail for sending documents without physical presence.

We still went at least five heads above our initial quota though, but the Dean didn’t take us to task about it. In fact, he agreed to holding another one in the middle of the school year as we had promised some students and parents who we had to turn down after we had officially closed the registration.

We have an institutional workshop tomorrow and Friday, so I'll probably be back on Saturday.

And that’s session number 599 in its entirety, one entry short of a momentous occasion. Class dismissed.