WRITING AND READING PARTY

                                  WRITING AND READING PARTY
                                 
                                              BY :  TSURTIDOGNI
                                                      022708
                                                      WEDNESDAY

Once a  month my mother teaches Cathechism in our village.A  volunteer work that she has been doing for more than forty years.It means no salary, out of her willingness
to serve the school children in the village and one way also of glorifying the LORD.She was always assigned to the grade six or to the graduating students of the village Elementary School.My mother will be eighty-one years old this coming September 01,
this year.She remains the graceful lady who loves to wear dignified looking dresses and
colored her hair chesnut brown.She is the darling of the school teachers and the students in the village.Teaching is not my line of interest so I don't think I could follow her footsteps as the Best Cathechist of the Year not only in the village but in the whole
town which is composed of 15 villages.

Early this morning, she came to me."I need to be in the next village to attend a wedding
of my friend's daughter, will you handle the Cathechism class for me? Just this once."
The reluctant me replied,  "Is there anybody assigned to take over your place when you
cannot do your duties.There must be somebody from your group!" My graceful mother
reasoned out,"Yes, but we are all in this wedding event, so definitely nobody can do it,
that is why I am here." My mother knows also that I never ever wanted to be a teacher.
Doing this for her is really a very big favor she wanted to ask me."How many students ?"
How old are they " How many boys, how many girls ?" I bombarded my mother with
questions.She replied"Forty for two hours.""WOW" I exclaimed."When?" I continued
asking like a telegram.She smiled with my questions she got a clue that I would agree.
"Tomorrow at ten in the morning until twelve noon." Ma, I read the HOLY BIBLE , but
I am not as expert as you are.I am sure the students will be dissappointed.Can I just
make Cathechism in my own way or style.I will not be going to teach but I will give them
a party." My mother knowing how active I am in giving parties planned or surprise was
laughing."It is up to you.I already told the classroom teacher that you will replace me
just this once so make the best of it.I did not ask your permission before telling the
classroom teacher, because I know, you never let me down." See? my mother, always
the positive thinker that she is."What if I have other commitments"  I teased her.
"Then you have to cancel it, I am your priority right ?" How can I refuse my very persistent mother ?

My plan for tomorrow.
Twenty-boys.Twenty-girls.
I have a little budget for my trip to the city next week.This is suppose to be for the BOOKS ON SALE, this can wait.I am going to use this money for the Writing and
Reading Party tomorrow.
I still have more than enough time to prepare this,  "ALL FOR MAMA."

ITEMS  NEEDED:
50 pcs . white bondpaper. Actually I need only forty,
            so the ten pieces reserved for whatever needs-------------------P 25.00

40 pcs.  black pens at 7 pesos each                        ------------------- 280.00

100 PCS.HANGING RICE (BOILED RICE PLACED IN A
      WEAVED OBLONG DESIGN COCONUT LEAVES--------------------300.00
      at  3 pesos each=2  pieces per student                 
                                                                                                                                   

100 sticks pork barbecue at  5 pesos each                                    500.00
      two sticks per student

50  PCS. Funchum Juice in Tetra pack with
              attached straw at five pesos each                                  250.00

50  PCS.  LARGE BROWN PAPER BAG                                        50.00

100 PCS. RIPE TABLE BANANAS ( FREE) A GIFT
                FROM MY MOTHERS GARDEN
                                                                                              =========
ALL IN ALL I NEED A TOTAL AMOUNT OF  PESOS            p    1,405.00
ABOUT $35 OR 35 U.S. DOLLARS                                        VVVVVVVVV

ALL SET !

What to do with the food ? How am I going to serve them? I am alone to serve 41 people
including their teacher.Simple !
I put in every brown paper the following:
2 sticks  pork barbecue
2 pieces hanging rice
1 pack juice with straw
2 pieces ripe bananas
What to do with the remaining food ? I will give them to the principal and it is up to her
how to share it with her teachers.Surely they will feast the ripe bananas, because as
of this writings my mother sents more ripe bananas, because she and my father cannot
consume their harvested fruits.I will place all the filled brown bags in a big box as well
as the remaining food not in the brown bags and will give a surprise party tomorrow.

THE ACTIVITY
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All forty students will be given a piece of paper and a pen.Of course, I will let them write
their names .Then they have to make an ESSAY, with a title,"Why My Mother Is Very
Special To Me ? " There is no limit as to how many words.But there is a limit in time.
They have to write it in exactly one hour.

I will bring a big empty wine bottle decorated with red yarn on top. I put 40 scrolls inside
the bottle.Out of the forty scrolls, only five of them have writings, and what was written
was the numbers 1,2,3,4,5.the rest are blanks.After one hour I pass around the bottle
and let each student get one scroll each.The student who will get a scroll with a number
will read his or her essay in front of the class.The remaining 35 students will be the
audience as I will let the five students stand in front of the class and read one after
the other.There will be a lot of fun and thrill ! In as much as the time is limited, I will
tell the rest of the students that there works will be placed in a bottle as part of Naomi's
Bottle Museum and during their graduation by end of March, the chosen BEST ESSAY
will receive an award or a prize from me.I may even decide to have five best essays.
After the reading of the works of the five students, I will distribute their pack-lunch.
We will eat together at the classroom and put all the garbage back in the brown bag
and put it back in the big box , so Neat ! Isn't it ?
No singing, only WRITING AND READING PARTY.!

Oh, how I wish I have the budget I could give it not only to one classroom but to six
classrooms as well. Well, I keep on dreaming dreams.But, not for me as a cathechist
teacher.I have really different interests, but I guess with one goal as my mother did,
TO SERVE OTHERS.

Wish me luck for tomorrow, dear authors of this community.GOD IS GREAT !