Mati, Davao Oriental

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

july 24-26 is going to be the teacher’s retreat and we are going to have like 5 days to waddle and dawdle anywhere we want to go. As an officer of our mountaineering club and as an arbiter and presiding officer in meetings I have unwillingly become aware of the things going on around our club. I have observed that the members of our club have some amount of animosity with each other. Anyways last wednesday, we have come up with a decision to spend at least 2 days out of the 5 day student holiday and go to Puting Bato, Samal and traversing to Canibad. SO i would say, i had enough of the sun and the so far away beach but thats what the group have agreed upon. ACtually it was a suggestion by one of our applicants and at that moment it seemed nice. I think the group worked more under the influence of groupthink and so we failed to meet the purposes and standards for which our club has been purportedly founded. Anyways, a good idea came up and that would be…. to spend our days in MATI, DAVAO ORIENTAL!. I think that this is a way more fun idea to spend the rest of the days off from school. Mati is full of wonderful beaches and great waves to catch with a surfboard!. I think this would be a wonderful trip but I am having trouble with the concept paper because first of all, Mati is too far from Davao, but then again everything is possible through Google.. LOLS. Anyways, what im going to do is to:

1. Research about the beaches in Mati

   1. Find out if Mati is a safe place to go or not

2. Find and list probable enjoyable and interesting beach activities

3. Conduct a social activity that Mati can benefit from our group

4. Ask for friends about where to rent or borrow surfboards, freesbies and skimboards

5. Collaborate with group members

6. Make Itinerary or make other group members do it

7. Estimate overall budget

8. etc

   so, here i go, making plans again. anyways im going to start doing research about this thing mainly because i am going to benefit from this. I would like to be able to go to Mati and swim, surf, skim and play around. RELAX> everyone needs a well desrved break from the monotony of urban life. Im going to rejunivate myself in the waters of Mati, Davao Oriental. Life is wonderful!.