Nadia's Story

Wednesday, 16th January

This week still exam week and my activity in elementary education is lesser than a week before.

I just have to control the student and checked their task after exam, the conditon of the class is controled, almost all of the student doing their task by their self. But, in grade three the student need more help for spelling the word or i have to explain what is the meaning of the sentences.

But, this night is special night because mr. President  of the University invite us for dinner together in Tatoy’s . The name of Mr. President is Mr. Luis M. Sorolla Jr., Ph.D., CSEE

Mr. President invite us (me, Vivi and Andi) to join dinner and also one of my buddy.

Ma’am Hilda told us, this is the first time mr. President invite SEA-Teacher’s student for dinner because mr. President is very busy person. We had so much fun when dinner in Tatoy’s

According to mr. President and hs secretary the said that “if we visit to iloilo wouldn’t be complete without taste the seafood” Tatoy’s is authentic restaurant in Iloilo City, the famous one is the seafood. Tatoy’s serve fresh seafood everyday we visit Tatoy’s near the city.

After we ate, mr. President asked us about our experence here, and he give me chance to sing my nationl song “Indonesia Raya” and after that mr. President sang for us the national song of Philippines. We had so much fun and great dinner.

On Friday, 18th January 2019 i have to back a reality for teacing again

In this day after exam and checkhing, i as a teacher have to making revie test paper for the student. We discuss about the question in exam task and find the answer.

When revie test paper the student must be read the questin and answer the question by themselves, after that we confirmed if the answer is wrong we have to find another one but is the answer is right we giave them applouse

Riview test paper not easy to do we have to control another student and manage the class become condusive. Sometimes the students want answer the question assoon as possible without explaining.

Today is Monday, 14th January 2019 and in West Visayas State University on this week we have exam week. And every Monday we must do ceremony flag

Ceremony flag start at 7.15 until 7.30 am

 On Monday until Wednesday we as a teacher have to control  the exam for students. The exam start from 7.30 until 3 pm in the afternoon. I did my controling and checking with my buddies (Tina, Marian, Loren) and Monica.

(studens grade 3,4,5 doing exam)

We control the students make sure they can do them task and if they have any question they must raise their hand and we will come to them and for Thursday until Friday, 18th January we have to checking and input student’s exam value.

(from left me, monica, marian and tina )

On Saturday 12 January 2019 ma’am Ann invite us (me, Andi and Vivi) and our buddies to come to her house in Alimodian. We depart from WVSU at 3pm, distance between WVSU and Alimodian it’s almost 60 minutes.  We arrived at 4pm then we went to mama paz. Mama paz is a resort with swimming pool inside. Julie, feurl and her friend are swim but we’re not we’ve got a lot of happy time there. And after swimming we’re doing BBQ they grill pork and me, Andi and Vivi chicken with different utensil.

On Sunday 13 January 2019

We have to woke up earlier because we will go to Bucari in Alimodian. But, before that we have our breakfast in ma’am Ann house first and our brunch in ma’am Ann’s friends house. The house is near Agony Hill, Alimodian

Agony Hill is a small hill in the town of Alimodian, Ilo Ilo. This is famous place every holy week. Before reaching the top of the hill there are station of the cross along the way where the people pray and do penance.

I also saw small group of people praying and seriously meditating

After we went to Agonny Hill we went to BUCARI. Bucari is an area with mountain in the highlands of Leon and Alimodian, both are municipalities of Ilo Ilo province in Panay island, Philippines. It is composed of Bucari, a barangay in Leon and neighbouring barangays of which 14 barangays are in Leon and 7 barangays are in Alimodian which calles the “Seven Cities” it is known the “Summer Capital of Iloilo” (cite from wikipedia)

For your information,  if have your own car, make sure that it could handle the sloppy road and in a good condition because of the track went to Bucari and be ready for an extreme ride going to Bucari and be amaze with beauty of nature

When we arrived in Bucari we got stamp in our hand as sign. In Bucari we can do like we can go to waterfalls (Imoy falls) , had camp, hike 14 stations of the cross and after we hiked we can see the beauty of Fallen pine tree.

We didn’t do camp and go to water falls but we hiked 14 station and take a picture at Fallen pine tree. You have to prepare drinking water, comfortable shoes for hiking because it would be making you tired.

On Friday, 11 January 2019 me my friends here and ma’am Ann went to Alimodian we had great experience there.

We depart at 8 am then we went to Alimodian (ma’am Ann’s hometown). we arrived at 9 am , we had invited by Alimodian’s mayor. The name of the mayor is Sir Geefre, they serve us many kinds of food for our breakfast. I love all kind of food there especially Sinakol. Sinakol made from rice and mix with sugar brown. The taste is sweet, and manggo here has yellow skin with sweet taste. I love it.

After that, we went to elementary school in alimodian’s village we had so much fun when we on the way there. We do observ in elementary school there, we introduce our self to the studens and ma’am Ann gave them some candies for them.

We got our lunch in homestay beside the school. I’ve got the information that the students here didn’t need to pay for them lunch, some nice people contribute for them lunch. For lunch we’ve ate chicken and capcay

Then, after observe to elementary school we went to to the chili garden and they allow us to pick the chili

Then, we went to hill. The scenery top the hill very beautiful, the wind there is very tight. We took some picture with the beautiful scenery

The hill has very good scenery and i enjoyed all of things there, because after that we went to sunflower garden. Ma’am Ann said that we can pick 1 sunflower before we went home.

Tuesday, 8th Jan 2019

This is my 2nd day for me doing my observ in West Visayas State University. But for this day i have another schedule beside observ. I try to teach at grade 4 (four) but just a little part of the lesson plan . i’m so exited fo teaching because this is my first time to teach using english language. This is different from my country. In West Visayas University i teach very big class, in one class usually contain of more than 50 students. In my first day i got little bit confused how to get the attention from my student here so, after i’m doing my part i start to observ again how the teacher here get the attention from the students. After that, one of my friend, antonette, chin and monica invite me to look around the campus. We went to the oldest building in campus and also the main library at campus. The oldest building in West Visayas University is Quezon hall and it’s very beautiful building with authentic architechtur. We’re also take a picture there.

In the next day, 9th jan 2019 i try to teach again. And for this day until Thursday me with marian, loren and tina doing team teaching so, if the student busy with they business our team will be handle it. And it works i got they attention. I also playing game in the class for get the attention and they’re very happy because of my games. At the end of the class ma’am tingson told me that i have to do my own lesson plan, so i try hard because my lesson plan in Indonesia is different from this campus. So, i have to learn from the first. Bu, my buddies help me to do my own lesson plan.

In the afternoon ma’am Hilda invite me to go to the biggest mall in IloIlo city the name of the mall is SM City. On the way to SM city we visit to the church in Ilo Ilo city and see the old building here.

On Thursday 10th Jan 2019 i start my day with presented about Indonsia in ma’am tingson class i presented about culture, language and we learn how to speak indonesia even just a greetings ma’am tingson’s students is a good learner they can speak indonesian clearly. I using power point on my presentation and show them some video about Indonesia especially about our beautiful places in Indonesia. In the end of my presentation they gave me a gift i am very surprised about that they’re very kind. I’ve got stationary from them such as some pen, book, stabilo and sticky notes. That’s perfect for me, i’m very happy about that.

On Thursday i have class too in grade 6 i am doing team teacing with loren, i teach about simple machine, the student separated finto 6 group and every group has a different activitiy to do, after their activity the have to present their project. Ma’am tingson observ me and give me motivation and also a comments for me. But, i’m happy dan more enthusiasm for teaching.

Monday, 7th January 2019

This is my second day here in West Visayas State University. This is Monday so, the university held ceremony at 7 pm and we’re invited to join them doing ceremony. The participant of the ceremony are consist of primary school, junior high school, senior high school and some of student of the university. Me, Vivi and Andi called by ma’am Hilda Montana to come in front of the participant of the ceremony and she gave us time for introduce ourself. Then, we gave the mr. President authentic thing from Indonesia and our university.

Then, the university make a welcoming for us at the first we watching video of West Visayas University then, the three of us gave some speech for itoducing ourself to them, after thet introduction od DETT, DSTT Coordinators, ILS Director, Cooperating Teachers an then Welcome remarks by Dr. Emellie G. Palomo as ILS Director, orientation by DETT and DSTT Coordinators, Introduce the buddies who will accompany me here after all of that i had a discussion about my plan here.

After the discussion, we looked around the university with maam and buddies here.

My mentor here is ma’am Lea and my buddies here is Tina, Loren, and Marian. The three of them is very beautiful and i enjoy with them.

For the first day i start with observ classroom.

The class is grade 3,4 and 6 . people in West Visayas State University is very nice everytime they see me they will say good morning/afternoon/ evening.

Maam Lea told me that i have write my own DRT i have to be in campus at 7.15 am and there is a break time at 12 pm then i have go back and write my DRT again before 1 pm after that i can go back to the hometel at 4.15 pm

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton