Last Day in Baguio, Philippines (Saturday, 18 Feb 2018)

I left the dormitory at 9 pm. I was so sad, one month was very fast. Thank you for the experiences. I will miss you SLU, I will miss you Philippines. And the ladies at dormitory gave us a farewell party, I was so touched, thank you very much SLU family.

Picture 1. Some of members of SLU Ladies dormitory

Picture 2. The girls gave us some gifts and cake 

Picture 3. Last dinner in the SLU Ladies Dormitory with the chef 

Last Week, the Saddest Moment "I don't want it finish" (Week date : 13 - 17 Feb 2018)

My Significant Experiences

Monday, 13 February I still taught 3 classes with new topics. The students were very happy and enjoyed the lesson.

Tuesday, I gave them drills again and also I said good bye to 9A and 9B because that was my last day entering their class. 

Picture 1 : With some of 9A students

Picture 2 : Together with 9B

Wednesday, actually I should teach 9D at the last period but they had a quiz because Thursday they will have an earthquake drills from school so they couldn’t do the quiz on Thursday. So sad, actually I would to say thank you and good bye to 9D then Ma’am Donna gave me opportunity to entering their class after quiz and taking some pictures, I was so happy because of that time.

Picture 3: With all of 9D students and Ma’am Donna

On Wednesday also we (exchange students) had the short program with all observers in the attic at 9:30 – 10:30 am and there was Ma’am Balmeo (The assistant principal of SLU-LHS) on that program. They gave us a lot of gifts, letters, and of course memories that we’ll never forget. Then we took picture together with all the observers in front of Gerard Decaestecker Building.

Picture 4 : With Ma’am Balmeo after gave us the gifts from SLU-LHS.

Picture 5 : With all of the observers

Thursday I still came to school as a photographer, I took pictures of my friend because she would to say good bye to her students in grade 7. We only a half day in the school because we would to attend the farewell program in Saint Louis University at 2:30 pm so we said good bye also especially to our cooperating teachers, teachers and the securities, also said thank you for all their help for one month that has passed. I love you Saint Louis University.

Picture 6 : With Ma’am Isican and Ma’am Donna (Our cooperating teachers)

Picture 7 : With the teachers in faculty room 3

Then at 3:30 pm we had  the farewell program in Perfecto building P-700 with the dean of STELA, Ma’am Gigi, Ma’am Teresita, Supervising Instructors, teachers and our buddies. There we showed the singing performance also we got certificates and gifts from Saint Louis University. We were very thankful to SLU because of a lot of experiences that we’ve got.

Picture 8 : Photo session after farewell program at P-700

 

3rd Sunday Trip (11 Feb 2018)

We went to Vigan city, Ilocos Sur. It is 5 hours by car from Baguio City. So we started leaving the dormitory at 3 am. We were fetched up by Mano driver, Ma'am Ruby and Ma'am Kath.

We slept again in the van because it was so early.

8 am we arrived at Vigan city, and our first place was Baluarte zoo. We saw a lot of animals there like birds, peacocks, lion, tiger, zebra, and so on.

Picture 1. We were at Baluarte Zoo, Vigan City

There was also a museum in the zoo with a lot of fermented body of animals and photos of a hunter and the killed animals. My friend named Danti was so sad. “Why people killed the animals and put the bodies in the museum like this, so pity the animals are”, she cried. Then our friend (named Lina) from social science answered, “Sometimes they need to do this to let young generation reproduce the new gen, so they kill the old one. They didn’t kill the animal everyday but they a certain schedule, if I’m not mistaken.” She said. Then Danti stop crying.

Picture 2. My Friend (Danti) in the museum

Our destination after that was the old town. we went around the old tow using a transportation which was pulled by a horse (I don't know what's the name), in Indonesia we called it delman. Then we dropped at some places like church, old tower, old jail and old town

Picture . Riding the delman

Picture 3. In front of the church

Picture 4.We were in the old tower

Picture 5. Visited the old jail

Picture 6. At the old town

We finished our trip at 3 pm, then we decided to came back to Baguio City. On the way to Baguio, we  saw a beautiful beach near the road and Mano dropped us at a beach and let us to play the water for a while. Next we continued our return trip to dormitory.

Picture 7. At the beach near the road

We saw the beatutiful sunset from the van, then decided to rest a while and enjoyed the sunset also eating the fruits.

Picture 8. Enjoyed the sunset

Last we arrived at dormitory at 9 pm. Thank you SLU for the trip's schedule.

Saturday, 10 Feb 2018

Math major, me and 3 others did the post-conference with Ma'am Ruby (our supervising instructor) at P303 Perfecto building of Saint Louis University. One by one we faced Ma'am Ruby to talked about our demonstration at the week before and our plan to teach at the week after.

Picture 1. Student teachers of Math major with our Supervising Instructor

Ma'am Ruby explained me about her comment of my teaching, because she had observed me when I was teaching in one of my classes. She said that I should made my voice louder, because some of the students in my class were so noisy and caused the other students didn't hear my voice clearly, but overall I was good in my class management and my topic's explanation. She also gave me the evaluation form. It was the value of my teaching practise according to her observation, thank you Ma'am Ruby. 

Picture 2. I was doing the post-conference with Ma'am Ruby

The Beginning of My Actual Teaching Practices (Week date: 05 - 09 Feb 2018)

 I.         My Significant Experiences

Monday, 5 February I hadn’t started my actual teaching practices because the classes that I would teach still had a quiz. First class was 9D (8:10 – 9:10 am). So, I stayed at the back of classroom to help Ma’am Donna handle the class. But one accident happened when the students were doing the quiz, the building shakes for less than one minute. I thought my chair was shaken by someone but I was wrong, evidently the earthquake happened. The students told Ma’am Donna, “Ma’am, earthquake, Ma’am”. Ma’am Donna didn’t feel the earthquake so she asked the students to don’t be panic. Then she looked at the outside and the other classes but no one go out from the classroom, so the students continued the quiz. After quiz finished, a male teacher came and said that the activities of that day suspended and all students were asked to go home because of earthquake. So, only one class finished the quiz on that day.

Picture 1. The students were asked to go home because the schedule suspended because of the earthquake.

Tuesday, 6 February 2018 actually was my first day of actual teaching but the schedule was changed because of accident the day before, so that day still continued the quiz activity to others classes, that were 9A and 9B.

Wednesday (7 February 2018) I had two schedules, 9A at the first period and 9B at last period. I started teaching at 8:10 until 8:40 am in 9A, only 30 minutes because that class would have a guidance practice. Then I came back to the attic and waited for 3:30 pm to the schedule of teaching in 9D. When I was entering the class my heart beats very hard, maybe I was nervous but I could handle it. Then I taught, gave the new topic and explaining the examples, and finally the first “one hour” of teaching alone ran well. I was so happy and I hoped that the students understood the lesson that was given by me.

Picture 2 : a student is answering my question

Thursday and Friday (8 and 9 February 2018) I enjoyed my work, I loved to be a math teacher and no nervous anymore. Luckily, the students were clever and diligent so they could accept my explanation easily then if I gave them the other sample problems they could solve it. Even if they found the difficulties they want to ask me. On Friday I taught 3 classes, I gave them the drills and divided them into 10 groups and asked them to answer my questions together with their group. I was so happy because the students participated actively in the class.

Picture 3 : The students were doing the group activity

 II.            Problems Un-conferred

·      I felt a bit worry because I haven’t started the teaching until Tuesday, even my friends taught already at their classes.

·      Suddenly Ma’am Donna asked me to give the exercise for students to review the topics that I had given, I confused because I didn’t know what drill that would I give to them.

In this week, I didn’t find a lot of difficulties or problems because I enjoyed already with my activities in this school

III.       Problems Hurdled

·         It was okay if I only started the teaching on Wednesday because that was an accident that made me didn’t teach on Tuesday.

·         About the drills, I made it the night before I gave the exercise to students. I worked until night, and slept for 3 hours was enough for me. The case taught me that we have to be professional worker whenever wherever and I loved it.

2nd Sunday Trip (Feb, 04 2018)

We had a trip to La Union with teachers of SLU, they were Ma’am Lagos, Mr. Bryan Catama and Ma’am Pam. They picked us up at the dormitory with a van. We left the Dormitory at 6 am. we needed 3 hours to arrive at BAHAY na BATO, La Union. That was a place of beach, but we couldn’t play the water because the wave was so big and there was no sands, only high pile of stones as the barrier of the sea.

Picture 1. At th beach (South China Sea), La Union

Picture 2. Jumpshot near the sea

Then Ma’am Lagos asked us to play a game that we have also in our country. We called it congklak.

Picture 3. We were playing congklak with Ma'am Lagos

but near the beach there was a villa with stones as the floor. We ate snacks in the villa before we walked to another place.

Picture 4. In the villa

We went to a gallery near the villa with the inside of gallery there were a lot of unique pictures and things from wood. And at the outside of gallery, there was a pile of stones such that made a nice form.

Picture.5 At the gate of the gallery

Picture 6. Main entrance of the galley

Picture 7. Beautiful form of the pile of stones

After that we came back to the villa and continued our trip to Caba, one hour from BAHAY na BATO. After arrived at Caba, we ate our lunch and after that we felt so sleepy then slept in the villa belong to Ma’am Lagos’s brother.

Caba was a place of beach also but with sands and wave which not really big so we could play the water.

Picture . At the beach, Caba

After that we came back to Baguio and we arrived in dorm at 7 pm. Then we took a bath, ate our dinner, fixed our preparation our “actual teaching” for the next day and then slept, rest our body from the tiring but happy trip.

Saturday, 03 Feb 2018

As our routine, Saturday was our schedule to make lesson plan with our buddies. So that day we made the lesson plan at a certain class in the perfecto building, start from 01:00 pm until 04:00 pm.

When we were doing our work, Ma'am Lagos entered our class and said,"Tomorrow we will have a tour to La Union, that's a beach 3 hours from Baguio. Bring your packed lunch and we will leave the dormitory at 6 am, so prepare your self". "Okay, Ma'am" we answered.