Here we go

So I feel as if I am slowly running out of time here. I have less than four weeks left and it is really making me sad. I have to enjoy the time that I do have left. I just know that it is going to go by super fast.

Well I wasn't able to blog last night because I was really tired. Yesterday morning was really busy. I ended up going to two Masses, one for the daily Mass, but we had forgotten that we were invited to an ordination, which we attended. The ordination was at Mary Mediatrix Cathedral. I guess they waited for that date to have the ordination since it was the feast of St. Jean Vianney. The Church was really packed, but as a religious we had reserved pews. It lasted two hours, but as any where you go, the rite is the same. However, here in the Philippines during the offertory, offerings other than the bread and the wine are brought up, like fruit, can goods, paper. However, this new priest is going to have a lot of new stuff. What else was different was the fact they let the guy address the crowd before we were dismissed, which took a little while. One thing that is hard with everything is the language. I am trying my best to learn it, but I don't have enough time to learn it. Other than that, I went to the tailor yesterday to get another shirt made. I realized that I am going to end up heading back to the states with more clothes than I actually brought with me.

Last night I had the hardest time trying to fall asleep. My air conditioner was leaking water into my room, so I was constantly up checking that, but the problem was resolved today thanks to the maintenance people here at Cor Jesu. I hung out in the Campus Ministry Office, typing up some Morning Offerings that the Brothers use here to take back to the states with me as well as prayers for the intercession of Venerable Brother Polycarp. I feel like the community I live in does not pray for the intercession of him enough. We want him to be a saint, it requires our prayers. Two words for lunch today: fried chicken! Absolutely amazing! I spent the afternoon reading some stuff on the our Rule of Life. It is important for me to try to learn as much as I can about the Rule of Life and how to best live it.

Since I wasn't playing basketball or volleyball tonight I went and hung out with the security guards. They are all really nice and I enjoy getting to know them. They really try there best at speaking english to me. I really am going to miss them all. I took a picture with some of them today, which I might have developed and give it to them to remember me by. They might not be here if I ever return here. As we were talking, they kept on saying something about a white lady here on campus. I was shocked to hear there was a white lady on campus, but come to find out the white lady refers to a ghost. Very interesting indeed! I think ghosts are really cool. Who knows what could happen here in this last month.