Today, I had my Lasare1 or LaSallian Recollection. It is done for one whole day and it is exclusively for Freshman students at De La Salle University. At first I thought, oh my, this is going to be boring. Because one of my friends, namely Camille, told me I might as well bring a blanket and a pillow. On the other hand, my other friend, Cherilyn told me it was worth attending to. I'll only share about the parts that I could remember okay?

S, I woke up at 6:30 AM. At first I was too bored to get up because I was so sleepy. So, I got myself up and did my morning rounds. I arrived in school at 7:21 so I was just on time. As I got in, some of my blockmates were already there. First thing that came into mind. Here we are again, with my blockmates.

We chatted for a while and then, the first session started. As soon as we got settled in the prayer room, everyone was so noisy. It was natural. Since high school recollections, everyone is noisy. So, he started writing on the blackboard. It was weird, he instructed us to get OUT of the room! I was actually confused I thought we did something wrong. But it was the first activity. at first it was weird ubntil he explained to us the significance. First reflection: be careful and sensitive with our actions towards rules and towards people.

Then he made us do reflection again and stuff. Then we had a break. So we ate and chatted then after a while we returned to the prayer room. This time, we had a calm talk. He talked about his trials in life. He never asked us to do a reflection but I had one. Never take things for granted, and, everything happens for a reason. He gave us two questions to answer. and I'd like to answer them here because he told us to answer it for ourselves.

When was God really present in your life? Honestly, I know, not think, that He is always present in my life. Sometimes, I know that I fail to notice that. I fail to acknowledge His presence with me. And I know it's wrong. Before, I'd always take time to pray and somehow, talk to Him. But now, I'm not doing that anymore. I know I can't complain that I'm busy and whatnot. I really felt sorta guilty.

Second question, When was the last time I chose to be present to this God? Now this, this is what really hit me. I dunno but, He knows that I am present but, do I want him to feel my presence? It's like breathing. It comes so naturally already that we fail to notice it.

Next activity, we were asked to listen to a song. I forgot the title, I think it's, I'll love you more than you'll ever know? haha. I really don't know. It's an old song. Our facilitator told us to think about the song. That God was the one singing it to us. It was a really nice song, love and trust. He asked us to make a reflection about it. The only thing I could share here is, the word thank you. Everything is personal to me.

On the next game, I wan't included because I was sick but it was an interesting game. I wouldn't be able to explain it because it's very complicated. But it was quite interesting. It's mainly about survival and saving other people. It showed us how selfish can people be. That people would only care about saving themselves first. And that people are always in a hurry. It opened up my eyes alot.

One of the last things I could share, was the spiritual gifts dicovery test. It was quite interesting. He made us answer these questions and summed them up the he gave us the meaning of the letters next to the total of each rows. I have 3 highest things. Teacher, Giver and Administrator.

Teacher. Tends to correct mistakes. Tends to sound a know-it-all. You'll love talking to them. Debater. Open Minded. Perfectionist. In a way. it was true. Sometimes, I hate it when I have mistakes with things. I am a very talkative person as well. I'm very open minded in the sense that, I accept the thoughts and other pespectives of people. Sometimes, I'm quite a perfectionist as well.

Giver. Passionate. Generous. Pampering significant others. Yeah, I'm also like this. Passionate and generous. I love pampering my friends. I always spoil them. I am very generous with people that I like it better to give than receiving.

and last, Administrator. Success-oriented. Natural leader. Organizer or mobilizes people for a certain task. I think that the last one is the only thing applicable to me. I'm not actually leader material. I like better when I'm the follower. I just prefer people telling me what to do, rather me telling people what to do.

That's about it. The day ended with a mass. After the mass, we left already. I would have to agree with Cherilyn. The Lasare was worth attending. It opened up alot of thoughts to me. I have realized so many things that I have took for granted. So, that was basically it.

Everything was just fine and dainty. what the? dainty? hahaha. I feel so tired so I'm gonna rest for a while. Till' next time.