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What can we do about our future leaders who are still in school now? This is our good future if we are looking into helping our students now. What happen today is no one is there for this student to help them out. This means NO MAN IS AVAILABLE TO HELP.

Pls help us with this concern.

Yes, Yes, Our students needs a lot of help in terms of mentoring, commitment, dedication and encouragement but not limited to financial needs. Here recently, I can see that we are down in the abyssal hole, and not oriented in the academic world view.

Us in the islands, our students performance is downhill. No support from parents, community, and the staff as well. Most of us men are talking to ourself about not committed to what we are doing in the schools as well as in the community. There are few students that are trying their very best to tackle only what is on hand now but no vision to see what are the outcomes of what they are actually doing.

The students are very proud of themselves as grown up students but not on what they are accomplishing. So, who and what  is the problem here?

Here in Yap Colonia, The students who are taking classes in the schools are looking down at the tip of their toes for they are in despair for their education in the coming days ahead of them when graduated from the schools. This problem in Yap, who will take care of them when in terms of their educational pursuit. This are some very frightening issues the students are having as their nightmares over their idea of schooling….

Can we share some possible suggestion on how to come up with some good plan for our students future educational pursuit plan of action.

Thank you very much for your time.

Henry Yangireitig

Ever wandered how to add depth to your characters? Then just ask yourself some questions and answer them so you can create your own characters for any kind of story. Below is just an example of what you could possible do. Thanks squiddooo for the questions (:

1. Name? Eimi Souma
2. Age? 15
3. Approximate height? 5’2″
4. Approximate weight? 119 lb
5. Hair colour? light honey coloured
6. Eye colour? soft brown
7. Skin tone? light beige
8. Do they speak with an accent? nope
9. Where are they from? Okinawa, Japan <3
10. Where are they now? Tokyo, Japan
    Who are their parents? Mother; Haruna Souma, Father; Ken Souma
11. What is their earliest memory? Watching her mother leave, and a few minutes later her father’s family picks her up.
12. What did they want to be when they grew up? Didn’t care about what would happen later on. Eimi didn’t want to think about it.
13. What did/do their parents want them to be? Her father(who dies) wanted his daughter to be happy. Her mother also wanted this but was selfish.
14. Do they have siblings? Older or younger? Brothers or sisters? None whatsoever.
15. Do they have or have they ever had children? How many? In the future she has three kids!
16. Do they or have ever had a significant other? Are they still with them? Why? Why not? When she was younger, and was with the Souma family she meets a boy from a daycare. That boy is her first love who she often bullied! She doesn’t realize that she meets him at her new school.
17. What were they doing right before the story starts? ….. don’t get this question lol
18. Up until now, what’s the most noteworthy thing they’ve done? To them? To the people around them?  She ran away from the Souma family when she was 8 and ventured around for 3 hours before she was caught by her body guards.
19. What was their education like? Ever since she was taken to the Souma family she has had a large amount of highly advanced education.

basically thats all you do! So creating a character can be made easier if you find more about them (: Using questions are a very efficient way to find more depth in your character, and it also helps you be more organized and perhaps prepared. Good luck on your stories!

Well, remember that competition we had a few days ago? Right, the donuts or bread making competition, yes. That’s what I am talking about. Since then, I had been perfecting my bread making techniques. And for better or worse, I am already sharing my findings with other people. Guess you can call me a rookie Chef. No not that, a Wannabe Chef, I think is more fitting. lol.

Tonight, at this very hour, 2:58 in the morning, I just finished finalizing my techniques and the results were amazing, at least to my taste. I know you can blame me for thinking that I have the eyes of everyone, but that is not what I am talking about here. I am just sharing what I personally think of what I did. I have evidence since my toy, a Rebel T2i Canon is doing its job collecting them for me, so you can judge and let me know what you think. There is that facebook like button at the end of this blog, so go right ahead and hit it for me. Willya? lol.

While everyone in my house was busy dreaming and snoring, I was pretty busy preparing the dough and raising the Yeast enzimes, melting the pretty yellowish butter from my favorite state of Oregon, while eyeing the clock ensuring that the timing is just about right while listening in on the cricketts roaming my Garage.. I can even tell that my years of  raising a few kids helped in figuring out the temperature of the milk and water as I was comparing it to the times one of these kids would steam-off the cold and flu… . It is why experience matters! lol.

As you can see in the pictures provided, the results of my labor was a success. I burnt the most precious ones though, which was sad cuz I was reserving those for thy Chef Wannabe. They were overcooked but still yummy and soft and everything on the top. They were so delicious. Amazingly delicious I might say.

So, if you ever have a question or two about making a bread roll, you now know that you have an Island Chef Wannabe that can be called upon for help. It will only cost you a Like Button! lol. And I pray and hope that my best friend in Portland found my technique amazingly useful and easily applied. May God bless guys and Good Morning from this corner of these United States of Micronesia…. Ooops. I mispoke again… the United States of America! Yes indeed.

This blog is just a quick one, that is dedicated to newcomers! Welcome to Ifagalz, and I hope you enjoy your experience here. Feel free to leave a comment on any of my blogs and say hi any time. My name is Lynn and it is lovely to meet you Have a good day!

Good Luck ~

In a way I was blessed to have curly hair. It was volumized, springy and always turned out how I wanted it to. Unfortunately, my curly hair comes with disadvantages as well. For example its dry most of the time, and super frizzy! Even though I try straightening, it turns out terrible unless I put some hair serum in it. I would be grateful to find ways to prevent it from being as… er, damagaed. I do have a list of options spread out for me. Like maybe puting egg in my hair to make it shinier and it looks healthy…

• At the end of my shower I make sure to shower in cold water so my hair can soak it up and shine better than if I had used hot water. Plus it helps wake me up!
• Less use of hot tools such as ironing it, etc. This will prevent it from damaging!
• Olive oil. BIG BIG ONE. Olive Oil is a huge help not only to hair but also skin! It is a great help for health benefits. Check to see if your face wash has olive oil in it.
• Try not to tie your hair up so tight, or after you shower. This will cause breakage in your hair, developing split ends.
• Cut/Trim your hair every 2-3 months to keep hair healthy and the split ends away.
• DO NOT Wring your hair with your towel after your shower. Your hair is most vulnerable when it is wet, therefore it can easily cause breakage.
• Working out can increase blood flow which is a great way to let your hair grow faster. Sweating is also very healthy for the body.
• Stay happy. Stress is never a great thing and can affect your health. Before you try doing any of this make sure you are satisfied with what you are doing. (: after all, your body is at ease when you are!

I use those tactics with my hair and still needing more considering my hairs condition… but like all the girls who do this so will I !

After the 4th try, our dough finally turns into Mr. Indian Chef's dough! lol.

It took the boys and I four tries to get it right, much much righter… lol. We decided on following this Indian Chef we found on Youtube. The problem was that he was using a very different kind of Yeast than the one we found in our kitchen cabinets. . As you can see in the photo on the left here, that thing swells to the top threatening to get out of that bowl. Too much Yeast enzimes? I wish I had a microscope so I can examine this little bugs growing and expanding, forcing the dough to reach this high.

Thanks to the Indian Youtube Chef, we are well on our way to the perfect Ifalikese morning bread ever designed and created… lol. Jun and Cal were telling me the next thing we should try adding cantolope and see how it taste in the morning with a cup of coffee.

Ifalik Donuts made of banana and egss with Yeast and Flour.... lol

Grace and the girls opted on making the usual Ifalikese style donuts. The funny thing is they used up Rosie’s bananas. The poor girl had to go on hunger strike because she has no bananas to play with. Lucky I hid some tapioca and taro so she has some island sweets for dinner.

Not a bad day to be involved in this donut making competition instead of painting our boat. It was raining all day long. The boys and I had to take a trip up to Seattle Fisheries Supply Store to buy paint and supplies and by the time we arrived back home, it was pouring like rain. Ooops, it really is raining. Tomorrow should be fine so we should be able to do some painting on the boat.

As I was trying to put this site together yesterday, my youngest son came out with a flyer and told me we had won something from this car dealer. I looked at it and it said we won one of five prices. I really do not pay too much attention to this kinda stuff but my son insisted that we go check this out. He told me that the reason the dealership kept on sending this stuff to us is because we spent so much money with them.

He won me over and there we went. It turned out, we won a Walmart $5.00 gift certificate. Wow! I don’t want my son to feel bad so I told him it is better than nothing. He agreed and that was the beginning of our day.

Today’s schedule is loaded. My sons and I have already decided to challenge these girls on coming out with a new recipe for bread making. Actually we are think of cheating and we already watched this Indian guy on Youtube did his thing and I think we can pull this one off. We are going to make some delicious bread!

And then in the afternoon, we will continue with painting our newly remodeled boat. If those guys at the marina can get their acts together and have the paints we needed, we can start painting anytime soon.

The two required subjects in schoolings today! Although there are more than those I’d like to take a bit of my time to talk about these two. Which one is more important than the other? History or math?

History of course! Without it where would we be? Our memories are all HISTORY, and we also learn from our mistakes because of history. So history has to be the answer!

Math of course! Without it we wouldn’t have the technology or medicine today. Math is complex but worth it to the end. It creates the new stuff that helps us all! So definetly math is the answer!

It may seem like there is only one answer. But take a bit of your time to ponder this question. What is that matters more? Or is there an answer? Really, the choice is up to beholder.

Although it may seen they outweigh each other in different catergories it is safe to say that both subjects are equally important in their own ways. We need both to take the advancing steps towards the future. As our history grows larger than it already is, so does our study on math. And thus forth, schooling is #1 priority of all ♥

My mother told me a number of tales, some containing superstition that I still believe. For example I was told never to sweep at night, otherwise I would have bad luck. Even the tiniest misfortune scared me out of my curiousity. I was careful when I handled glass, fearing that I would perhaps attain 7 years of bad luck.

I myself don’t know clearly how superstition started or how far back it dates but it certainly frightens me. Even in this advanced modern day the thought of going against it seems unwise.

It is not smart to do the following:
• Brooming at night, and then throw it in the trash. (I think, though I may be wrong, that doing this at night you will “sweep” away the bad spirits therefore leaving only the bad ones behind.)
• Opening an umbrella inside of a building. (I never understood why this was bad luck but I refrained from doing this… )
• Breaking glass brings 7 years of bad luck. (Like the umbrella I also never understood why this is bad luck. But whenever glass did break I would tell the person they had 7 years of bad luck. Haha, but I’ve already lost count of how many years I have bad luck…)
• Women are not allowed to fish. (Women are said to bring bad luck if they go near the sacred place of a fisher… I am a Woman myself so I never understood it. But I should respect it since it is a superstition after all.)
•  Clipping nails at night and you will not be at your parents funeral. (Although I read this from a book recently, I doubt I will be cutting my nails past 6.)
• Stepping on a crack will break your mamas back. (Avoided cracks in my childhood. I guess one would call me an overly paranoid person. But it is what I take pride in. )

The list of superstition goes on and cultures have adopted such superstition and thus passing it through the generations to come. Although I only named a number of bad superstition, there are also good luck superstition ! ♥

• Finding a four leaf clover. (This one is famously know since four leaf clovers are rare to find amongst a field of clovers ! I have searced for one but to this day have failed.)

Er, I don’t know a lot of good lucks but that is the main one I grew up with… Or can remember! If you feel like adding to my list of superstitions then please go ahead and comment below (: I would love to see what sorts of superstition is passing through the generations!

credit; photo done by Lynn
props to google for ghost pic !