Steph's Adventures

My plan was to put this poem up next Friday but I have now almost finished writing another poem, also on a Good Friday related theme, and t...

One of the many activities which make up the TVED programme is the "Youth Encounter" a three day retreat (encountering themselves...

You may remember that a while back I posted numerous quotes from the brochures for TVED which the senior students wrote for their English gr...

It is now summer in Cebu. I'm not sure why the Philippines has its summer in March and April, but it does. TVED are still hard at work, ...

I am a great lover of literacy and literacy teaching, so designing a literacy curriculum from scratch ought to be my dream job: and I am en...

We seem to be, at least briefly, in a period of relative routine at the moment, meaning our lives are dominated by planning, teaching and ma...

It is Ash Wednesday, and as this is a time for repenting sins rather than committing them, I won't lie and say I have written this poem ...

Recently, we set our students a group project in English, to produce a brochure and TV advert for TVED. Here in their own words (but with a...

I would probably have returned to this theme sooner, but a lot has happened and there has been a lot to reflect on in the last couple of mon...

Another week, another experience ... Shortly before lunchtime on Monday, Negros island, the next island to the west of us here in Cebu, ...

You will be pleased to hear that I think this may be the final part of my current series of reflections! All of this thinking about Dav...

As well as the sin of sleeping with Bathsheba, David compounds matters by the state-sponsored murder of Uriah. So why the change, from the ...

The story continues though (if you are wondering from what, please read part 1 first!), and somehow, it all seems to go very badly wrong. T...

At daily mass recently the readings have been following the books of Samuel and the story of David, shepherd boy, anointed by a prophet of ...

Today, 31st January, the church celebrates the feast of St John Bosco. We, on the other hand, have already been celebrating this feast for n...

After a short interlude for Santo Nino, this poem returns to a previous theme, that of silence. Melissa's comment forced me to reflect ...

This poem is really a continuation of the ideas I explored in my previous post, but as that was already long enough I decided to offer this ...

Last weekend's festivities are continuing to provide food for thought (and content for blog posts – apologies in advance for the length...

As promised in the previous post, I have been reflecting a little more on the feast of Santo Nino and its meaning. This weekend was undoubt...

This weekend we have experienced Sinulog, and although I have generally avoided writing purely descriptive blog posts explaining things we h...

You can probably spot that part of the inspiration for this latest poem is the peace of our Boholano holiday. But it is also about more tha...

Now the time when we remember the arrival of the wise men at the place of Jesus’ birth, the feast of Epiphany apparently used to celebrate ...