AMANDA THERESE BUMAGAT

For some of you who may not know me personally, my gap year seemed like I was constantly thriving. Behind the adventures, the...

Room in New York | Edward Hopper, 29" x 36", oil on canvas Living in an international school made me realise that I was never a social...

Photo by Lux Graves on Unsplash This question. During the Fine Arts freshmen orientation, our department head asked us this question. He...

Lavender, Holly Warburton The last two weeks passed by in a blur. I moved 90% of my belongings across land and sea. I lined up to pass...

Photo by Oleksii Hlembotskyi on Unsplash For all the self-improvement I do, I am still one messed up human being. And that’s okay. I’ve...

Amanda a year ago would have given anything to be in the country where I am writing this blog post. Art by yours truly I didn’t think I...

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash “If a person cannot solve a conflict with a friend, how can they possibly contribute to larger...

Photo by Hans Vivek on Unsplash There are three things I try to achieve every time I am on my mat: To treat myself with compassion To be...

“And so you take your time to cocoon because that itself is doing the work. You bask in silence and stillness because that's how you tune...

If 2020 was the year of shedding my Type A personality, 2021 was the year of figuring out how to live life on my own terms. Of choosing...

Sunset from Catangnan Bridge At this point of my gap year, I’ve finished my college applications and now just playing the waiting game...

It's been a hot minute. Photo by Almos Bechtold on Unsplash This is the third or fourth version of what I originally intended to write. I...

Photo by Mathew MacQuarrie on Unsplash Reposting this from the blog I contributed to in my second and final year in UWC. This was the...

I don’t exactly know how this story begins. One would think that my love for books began as a precocious child who first picked up words...

There are 3 things that brought about this painting. Rainy days. Poetry. Practicing how to draw hands. Rainy days are an invitation to...

For some reason, I don't envision myself going from one big thing to the next. Sure there are things on my bucket list such as bungee...

On the last day of English class, Ms. Wallace gave each of us personalised bookmarks with quotes from The School of Life's Book of...

"Igsuon", 40 x 61 cm, mixed media on masonite As I grapple with concepts of love and loss in this transition period, the most tangible...

One of the requisite courses to pass the International Baccalaureate is to learn a foreign language. I have never done this before in my...

In UWC, we talk about empowerment a lot. At times, it felt like a buzzword for putting someone up on a pedestal. In classrooms or...