The Sunday before Valentines Day happened to be Mentoring Sunday. A one-hour, once a month program where volunteers, like me, spend time with the parish's scholars.
As I was absent the previous month, the committee felt I should make up for it by taking the lead. This means coming up with an appropriate subject matter to bring to the attention of the children. Although it had to be delivered in Tagalog, I gamely accepted. My poor grasp of the language always made for comedy relief. At the very least, I would have made the children and their parents smile as they try to make sense of what I was saying.
