Tsinelas.org - Featured Volunteer

What's it been like? Three or four years? It has been quite a while since I've been with the organization. It's like taking up a four year course. The funny thing is, I don't want it to end.

I still remember how I first had my first encounter of the word "tsinelas". It used to remind me of the song Tsinelas by Yano. And to think, Yano was then the name of the Tsinelas Association Inc. STC Chapter. I still remember how I got in the organization.

During my first year in college, I was really having this huge interest in joining organizations. At that time, all I want is to get busy with something and meet a lot of new people. College then was still new to me because also of the fact that I was in a new environment- an exclusive all girls school.
Everything seemed like a new adventure, a new mystery to uncover. I wasn't expecting that the mystery would be so memorable to me that somehow it became a part of me.

Since then, I've been having activities to attend to. I've been exposed to a lot of places, people, kids, and of course, fun, and excitement. Plus the stress of thinking what project to implement during my term as President and the talking and the recruiting of new members. But whether I admit it or not, its not just the freebies and free food that I get that makes me want to join every Tsinelas-sponsored activity, it's the sense of fulfillment that Tsinelas is giving me. Its a sort of a fulfillment that you get from helping others and at the same time helping yourself discover the world around you.

I've never really imagined how the group have grown so big. How my whole world expanded as Tsinelas brought me to new horizons. And now, I just felt how it would be like without the organization to think of.

I'm in my last and final year in being a campus based volunteer. But I know deep in my heart that once a Tsinelas always a Tsinelas (I'm not talking about slippers,ok?). Seriously, what's it been like? Three or four years? What's the point in remembering when I could stay for as long as a lifetime!