“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you
far away from home.”
My life story
includes more than 20 years of working with an agricultural R&D agency.
Since I graduated with a Development Communication degree in the early ‘80s,
being accepted as writer and editor was a fitting start to a career in the
communication field. Having experienced all the facets of communication work,
from planning, producing, to evaluating communication materials, I was lucky
enough to be sent to finish my graduate studies at the University of the
Philippines Los Baños on scholarships, specifically, for my Masteral and Doctoral degrees. These degrees allowed me the privilege and
responsibility of being assigned to lead and manage the different communication
projects and programs of my agency and other international agencies, as well.
But a different
calling beckoned. My husband was on assignment to a forestry job in Papua New
Guinea. Since my daughters had both graduated from University, it was high
time that I joined my husband in his own exploits. So, I retired from
government work and tried the domesticated life in PNG. However, this hiatus
was short-lived. My husband plowed on with his assignments to other more wilderness-endowed
areas, thus, less-friendly to wives like me, so I stayed put and came back to
my home country, the Philippines.
Having nothing to
stimulate me cognitively, I applied and got accepted as Assistant Professor to
UPLB. I taught subjects like English grammar, writing college compositions and
writing science reports. This was a short stint, though, that lasted only three
years. I was not young anymore to start again, but not old enough to retire.
Once again, I needed
something to occupy my time, something productive, and something that will give
meaning to my existence. The computer beckons, the writer in me needs to
express my thoughts into words. This is what I was trained for, this is what I
have been doing all my life, so this is what I will be doing: putting into
words my life’s adventures. Hence the birth of adventurous-Pinay, the blog. Hopefully, these pages will inspire and motivate
others to experience life as I had. It will be a pleasure to know more what
you, my readers, think about my life and yours. Together we may transform lives
as we encounter our life together in this blog. Happy reading my friends!
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