Liveblogging: Cheering Librarians!

It's lunch time and participants of the UNEP (University of North Eastern Philippines) seminar-workshop on Building Up Literate Communities Through Books and Libraries are taking a much needed break. They just ended the morning session with group cheering presentations, group dynamics, diadic sharing and individual writing activities.

See the students of library and information science (LIS) from the University of Nueva Caseres and librarians from the Bicol Region present an all-original cheer!



The group called themselves GURUMUS. In Bicol, it means wrinkled. The participants, however, used the letter of the word as an acrostic to describe who they are as librarians and students of LIS.

Storytelling For Growth & Healing

The storytelling workshop I conducted today at the University of North Eastern Philippines (UNEP) was an enjoyable and fruitful one. I learned from the participants two folk tales in Bicol. My mission to collect local history and folk tales has begun. This is meaningful to me since Iriga City is my mother's place of birth.

I hope to visit and collect tales in Cagayan Valley being my father's hometown. And then, there are other provinces to consider like Laguna, Batangas, Mindoro, Sagada...oh, the list goes on!

The closing remarks of Mrs. Delicia Alfelor-Tibi, UNEP's VP for Finance really made my day when she said that my surname is so easy to remember. "Zarah Grace," she said, "GAGA ka T(i)laGA!" I laughed so hard there were tears in my eyes.