My school lives on the motto of “Ora et Labora” which literally means prayer and work. The motto was  made by St. Benedict for his Benedicitine nuns, but apparently, since our school was under the Order of St. Benedict for so long, the motto has apparently been adapted to ours as well.

And when they say prayer and work, they really do mean prayer and work.

The day after the earthquake hit Cebu, all of the schools in our island were dismissed. Except ours. In the second or first week of June, it is most likely that our school will schedule the first day of class for the new school year between those days. When a guy shamelessly asked a girl if she would be his girlfriend on the school quadrangle during Valentine’s Day (complete with friends holding placards of the said image and him walking down the quadrangle holding roses as if he was walking in an aisle) our students’ activities officer hurriedly went up and confiscated the IDs of anyone who was involved in the said ‘scandalous’ activity.

What a great school, huh?