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Founded by Dr. Randy Dellosa, Life Change Recovery Center (LCRC) is a psychiatric facility and rehabilitation center for people suffering from schizophrenia, depression, addiction, and other unmanageable behaviours. It is located at #105 Scout Rallos Street, Brgy. Sacred Heart, Kamuning, Quezon City.
For further information about LCRC, you may contact 415-7964 or 415-6529. You may also visit www.randydellosa.com

 Day 5: December 23, 2009, Wednesday

Wednesday has been my favorite day since elementary, i guess. i could not remember why or how, i just feel lucky whenever it is Wednesday. Sound weird, i admit. haha!

Well, yes, it is my lucky day kasi for the first time naunahan ko si Sir Al sa LCRC. (yehey!) saka si Bude and Haha!! wow! Napatakbo talaga ko nung pinagbuksan ako ng gate nun. Super happy! Sana magtuluy-tuloy. :)kaso late pa din ako, past 8 na ng dumating ako eh..

Dahil early bird ako, i had lots of free time to enjoy, at inenjoy ko talaga. :)

Sumakay kami sa bike ni Kuya Daniel [salamat Kuya Daniel! especially nung binabaan pa nya yung napakataas nýang bike. hehe!]. Lahat kaming PUPian [busy kasi ata sila Lala & others] ay nag-enjoy ng sobra mag-practice sa bike para sa nalalapit naming bonding sa QC Circle. ^_^ kaso hindi talaga ata para sa akin yung bike, na-semplang kasi ako at natumba ng super slow-mo pa daw sabi ng mga nakakita sa akin. nakakahiya naman kina jean & rene & kuya daniel din ata. tsk. dinaan ko na lang sa tawa kasi sobrang nakakatawa naman talaga pagkabagsak ko. inaamin ko, clumsy talaga ko. hehe..

anyway, aside from biking, nag-basketball din kami, tapos kumain ng balimbing from LCRC’s own garden, past time talaga ng mga taga NEU ang mamitas sa mga puno dun at kami ang taga-kain. yay! haha! tapos kumain din kami ng taho. ^_^

that served as our warm up for the activity that morning - aerobics. whew!

the residents had aerobics for morning activity lead by Gayle from UST, and we joined them. we had a long warm up that had really stretched my bones! whew! then we did the main exercise in the tune of Jai-ho! that was really super fun yet nakakapagod. sobra.. but i am sure na nag-enjoy yung mga residents kasi lahat sila nag-participate. dahil dun, congratulations to Gayle! our aerobics guru! sa saturday ule!

for the afternoon activity, instead of movie watching, the residents had a sort of  art activity para gumawa ng something na maibibigay nila sa family nila. nahirapan kakaisip yung group 2 ng kung anong pwede nilang ipagawa sa mga residents. something uncommon. until we came up with choices of a bookmark, a design-a-bear, and a doorknob ‘sabit’ (hehe..). some of us made an example para kopyahin nila.

then during the activity, most of them chose to design the bear (made by haha!). at first i thought it might look so childish to do an activity like that to a group of adults. pero nakita ko na naging excited sila especially nang malaman nila na para yun sa mga loved ones nila. it was touching. kung paano nila pinaganda, pinilit na pagandahin pa at nagsulat ng message para sa mga loved ones nila. some were very private na kahit sa kapwa residents ayaw nila ipabasa yung letter nila while the others are open, even to us practicumers. we were surprised naman ng magparticipate, at last, yung isang resident na hindi namin masyado talaga nakakasama. good for him. :)

during the activity i became quite emotional, or sort of, gusto kong tanungin sila kung para kanino yung message na sinulat nila, kung ano yung nakalagay, especially kapag mahahaba yung letter tapos masyadong seroso yung residents sa pagsusulat. mararamdaman mo yung emotions na nangingibabaw sa kanila: may ibang nag-aalangan kaya maiksi lang yung message, siguro nahihiya or hindi pa lang maisip kung paano sasabihin yung gusto nilang ipaalam sa loved ones nila; while may ibang dire-diretso sa pagsulat, makikita mo yung pagka-miss nila sa mga pamilya nila. nakaka-touch. naiiyak ako. :(

siguro yung pinakanag-mark saakin ng araw na ‘to ay yung conversation namin (PUPian) with Sir Al, although lagi naman niyang kinakausap kami ng light parang nagkwekwentuhan lang. :0 unang-una kasi napagalitan niya ako (although hindi niya ni-mention name ko,  pero alam na alam namin. t_t) kasi twice na kong late. sorry Sir Al. :( by the way, we had a long conversation then about different matters; the residents, the activities, our experiences, his soon visit to our alma mater, etc. yet the one that i listened to most is his advice of reconnecting with our loved ones - a very essential thing to do talaga. in order to maintain the connection, napaka-importante ng communication, sabi niya nga, kaya dapat meron kami lagi noon sa mga taong mahahalaga sa amin.

another important lesson is taking care of our body, because according to Sir Al, our body will always be the instrument to do our task, to achieve our goal. ^_^