My version is basically a personal account of the things that is going on with my life. It's opening myself to the world of critisms and as well as of reality. Actually, it is a personal attempt to be understood since I've heard stories about me which is quite biased and it comes to my head like if people can create stories about me (well, I can also do that!). Actually, I have revealed myself by writing my life story in Canada which you can click on Stories from Asia at www.tgmag.ca. I think writing about oneself is a journey towards intrapersonal understanding and a wonderful experienced of self-discovery when I go back to my blogs I realized my thoughts and who am I? on that day so I started to write blog entitled "my version" in my friendster account which is a storage of personal stories, feelings and realization that I have went through at that time leaving my work in a not so good situation and leaving my hometown and dealing with loneliness in a new place (far away from home and meeting new people and then adjustment to lifestyle and environment. It is also a sort of diary because I find online writing more accessible and also a self narrative on what is happening with me? My version carries so much emotions of hate, longing, love and of course fun and wonderful things that happened last 2008 which is very therapeutic for me for it heals my "inner self" because I think in my life I have so much things to heal in my interpersonal and intrapersonal relationship. Although, I do not think that I will not write anything about myself now in "emicversion" but I think this will be more of a social science approach (so to speak) because of course, those who will get access to blogs are not only my friends who can understand me and my crazy soul but even unknown people (like beautiful strangers).
"emicversion" is a product of all the things I have learned all through this year.Although, sometimes I wonder if there is anything "new" that I have learned? or do I really learned new things at all? but as they always said as you keep on learning you have just realized that by the time you think "you know" it's also the time you know that "you do not know". Although this may not be purely scholary in it's writing or in it's form since I never considered myself a scholar or academic person even up to this time I can still put myself in the eyes of a street child, a stranger, a culture-schock person and like a wandering jew sometimes but basically this will deal on my experiences as former volunteer street educator (working with street children and child labor project for five years under the ILO-IPEC (Internatinal Labor Organization, International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor) which brought me to Canada in 1997 to speak about my experience as child labor advocate, and also my encounter with the street kids and my life before as a street educator and a house parent. It will also revisit my practice as a social worker in the City Social Services for Development Office for three years working with abused children and women, preparing case studies, providing counseling and filing cases in court and my close encounter with the Badjao community. Actually, I have written account in my journal but even if it is not within me the experience is like a memory chip that I can insert it anytime in my head and I will have "memory walk". I also want to share stories from my life as social work/social science teacher for four years in the University in which some of these stories I already related in previous "My version" blog. Moreover, my one-year experienced living in the former Soviet Union Country (Kazakhstan) which I considered to be a life-changing experienced and my present endeavor now in my studies here in MAHESOS program will be included here. I want to share some of the papers we have written regarding subjects on Community Organization, Gender and Sexuality, Population Studies, Health and Economics, Biological and Social Foundations of Health and other important information which can be useful to anyone interested to learn about our world. Welcome to Social Science!
As much, as I wanted not to touch on personal writing but sometimes unconsciously my personal biases will put flavor in the subject which makes it really authentic. Before, I was thinking to stop blogging but because of some positive feedback from my friends and students that they like to read blogs from me, so I decided to continue publishing blogs this is only in the spirity of sharing for I never think that I am really a writer as I've shifted from my AB Language Literature Course in University of Southern Philippines to Social Work, I was thinking I cannot write anything worthy enough to read but because of their request, I am partly encourage and grateful as well for positive feedback. Anyway, I find this work rewarding at this moment and challenging as well. This will partly lessened my boredom of thinking when will the semester ends or when will I will stop studying because I really wanted to work. But somehow, I think writing is just part of me, given a chance to do nothing on earth but to write and read for sure I will have fun with that work but as they said when you want to be writer you need to go out in the field and live your life and then write. Just for the meantime, through, blogging, I forgot that the clock is ticking and that there is an element of time, what I only realized there is an element of space in which I can write my thoughts, ideas, opinions and share my personal space and this my emicversion.
That its a free and big world! Let's conquer this space.
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