today was my first day at PROSEC. the school which teaches people how to speed-read. the day did not start well. i woke up at around 6AM. that is so insane because i need to be there at 9AM. anyway, i got ready and i was ready by 7AM. the time my mom and i were supposed to be leaving the house and making our way over to ortigas. we ended up getting delayed because my mom had tons of orders to her employees. when we finally got to leaving home, my mom tells me we have to see one of the employees off to the store because she's carrying lotsa moolah. we went to cubao and got on the MRT. that was so crazy. it seemed like everyone in the metro manila area decided to take the train! my mom and i couldn't even get inside. we eventually gave up. the train was way too crowded and more people kept coming in.

after all that, we killed an hour, at least. so it's 8AM and we are nowhere near ortigas. my mom decided to just hell with it and take a cab. it took a while to get one. we had tons of competition. needless to say, we got to PROSEC. i came in at around 9:10. not bad, considering the misadventures we had.

the first activity of the day was to introduce your partner to the class - your partner being the person beside you. the person i sat next to is this 13 year old boy. we eventually got to talking because we had to introduce each other. i found out that he goes to la salle greenhills, likes the internet and playing sports, failed kindergarten 1, got accelerated to 1st year from grade 6 (ugh. he skipped grade 7), and other things i forgot. there were other latecomers. there was an empty seat beside me and a girl eventually occupied it. she's a college freshman at UP. she's 16 and lives in Cavite. her brother and her cousin are taking the course with her. she went to Elizabeth Seton for high school. aside from high school kids, there were also some adults. 4 of them actually. there's 24 of us in the class.

we eventually got to the reason we wre there, to learn to speed read. we had a diagnostic test first "to determine how fast we can read before the course starts". our comprehension was also tested. it was fun. the teacher is ms. tami :). she's very animated so it wasn't boring. after the diagnostic tests, we talked about the 3 reasons why people read slowly. after that we had our break. they gave us snacks - chips delight and zest-o. i don't think it sat well with me. my stomack hurt afterward :(. my partner didn't get any food. hmmm. i wonder why. after break, we learned a basic technique to read faster - to use the magic wand!!! which is our finger! yay!

we spent the rest of the lesson doing that. and so ends the first day at prosec. gawd. i wish it's easier to think of something to wear everyday. bleh.

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