Today's thoughts

So much has happened since my last post in April.

How boring can I get if I just post something mundane like Today's Thoughts when I have a lot of stories to tell, haha. This is my first blog entry ever since I arrived here in Australia last 06 June 2016.  We arrived during winter and it was dreadful. Temperatures reached below zero and sometimes it rained and the wind howled. But that didn't stop us from going to school --- to the Crawford School of Public Policy here at the Australian National University in Canberra. Arriving in winter can get lonely because everyone is spending their vacation in their home countries or somewhere more sunny, warmer, and more vibrant than Canberra. Nevertheless, I still enjoyed going to class.

I would love to tell more stories about my experiences but the past week, this week, and the next two weeks are hell for me and my colleagues. The semester is about to conclude and we have all these crazy finals and assessments to hurdle. As I write this entry it is now spring. The days are longer and warmer but the nights can still get cold. So many developments are happening and I want to post everything here for posterity's sake. It's so nice to look back to the memories I've made with friends in the past; my small accomplishments and achievements; my joys and pains... It's what makes who I am today. I guess my life is not so bad after all. I have so much to be thankful for.

I pray that my way of thanking God is to be of service to others; to always pay gratefulness forward.