APOSTOLATE REFLECTION
APOSTOLATE REFLECTION
The day before our apostolate, together with my classmates, we planned and prepared all the things that we needed like the food, the prices, the tokens, the exercises, the games. On the day of our Apostolate, Jasper and I were assigned to be the emcee. When we reached Bahay Pag-Ibig, we started the program with a prayer and asked for God’s guidance, the prayer was led by Carmel Abeleda. After the prayer, we introduced ourselves and presented our winning piece. We also asked the lolo’s and lola’s to join us in the exercise. It was very nice to see the lolo’s and lola’s that they were trying their best to do exercise. After a few minutes, I interviewed a lola. She was apologizing because she can hardly speak because according to her she had stroke. I asked her why is she in Bahay Pag-ibig, she told me that her son had drugs while his husband left her. Before she was in Baguio, but the institution in Baguio sent her in Bahay Pag-Ibig. When it’s lunch time, I fed a lola who can’t walk and can’t eat by herself. She told me not to give her vegetables anymore because she can’t chew them properly. After that I went back to the lola I interviewed, she showed me her bed and to my surprise she has a lot of books and reading is her hobby especially they don’t have any television in their room. So reading is the only way to kill her boredom. When we were about to leave, I felt sad. I felt sad because I saw in the eyes of those lolo’s and lola’s that they don’t want us to leave or they want us to come back. I felt like we were like their families who just left them there and did nothing. I suddenly thought of my future, I asked myself, if one day will my son or daughter or my family bring me in this kind of place when I’m old? When I can’t walk by myself or when I can’t eat by myself. For short are they willing to take good care of me when I am old?
The day before our apostolate, together with my classmates, we planned and prepared all the things that we needed like the food, the prices, the tokens, the exercises, the games. On the day of our Apostolate, Jasper and I were assigned to be the emcee. When we reached Bahay Pag-Ibig, we started the program with a prayer and asked for God’s guidance, the prayer was led by Carmel Abeleda. After the prayer, we introduced ourselves and presented our winning piece. We also asked the lolo’s and lola’s to join us in the exercise. It was very nice to see the lolo’s and lola’s that they were trying their best to do exercise. After a few minutes, I interviewed a lola. She was apologizing because she can hardly speak because according to her she had stroke. I asked her why is she in Bahay Pag-ibig, she told me that her son had drugs while his husband left her. Before she was in Baguio, but the institution in Baguio sent her in Bahay Pag-Ibig. When it’s lunch time, I fed a lola who can’t walk and can’t eat by herself. She told me not to give her vegetables anymore because she can’t chew them properly. After that I went back to the lola I interviewed, she showed me her bed and to my surprise she has a lot of books and reading is her hobby especially they don’t have any television in their room. So reading is the only way to kill her boredom. When we were about to leave, I felt sad. I felt sad because I saw in the eyes of those lolo’s and lola’s that they don’t want us to leave or they want us to come back. I felt like we were like their families who just left them there and did nothing. I suddenly thought of my future, I asked myself, if one day will my son or daughter or my family bring me in this kind of place when I’m old? When I can’t walk by myself or when I can’t eat by myself. For short are they willing to take good care of me when I am old?