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readers, I will share a lot of things to all of you my dearest reader regarding
to my journey for participating SEA-Teacher 2018. So readers do not forget to
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August 10th 2018 was another
biggest moment on this year, guess what? Yes, my friends (Nita and Rangga) and
I finally touched down safely in Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in
Manila from I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali Indonesia. We
arrived in Manila at 3.30 pm; it took 3 hours and 30 minutes flight from Bali. Once
we passed the immigration after few steps to the exit gate, two students from
Central Luzon State University (CLSU) were stood up and put their hands on the
air while grabbing a paper which it’s written our name and university. Thus,
approached and greeted them immediately. They were Mark and Fatima; they accompanied us to our hostel and
told us everything about Philippines and their college (CLSU). It took around 5
hours from the NAIA to Munoz or The Science City of Munoz, the place where we
have stayed. We had our breakfast together at Jollibee for the first time, JolliBee
is the most popular fast food restaurant in Philippines, and yes we loved our
first meal here, even though the sauce little bit sour. On our way to hostel
they welcomed us warmly. And also, they explained us about the agendas that
should be done after we arrived at our hostel.
Some of you may think, “What did you do on Philippines?” well I was joining a program
called Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO), this is a
regional intergovernmental organization established in 1965 among governments of
Southeast of Asia countries to promote regional cooperation in education,
science and culture in the region (seameo.org accessed on August, 25 2018). One
of SEAMEO program that I joined was SEA-Teacher project or Pre-Service Student
Teacher Exchange in Southeast of Asia aims to provide opportunity for
pre-service student teachers from universities in Southeast of Asia to have
teaching practicum in schools in other countries in Southeast Asia
(seateacher.seameo.org accessed on August, 25 2018). The program is helping
pre-service student teachers to have experiences in teaching among student
teachers in Southeast Asia in order to prepare professional teacher in the
future. This already was the 6th batch of SEA-Teacher program and I
have been sent to University Science High School in Central Luzon State
University for 1 month.
For your information Central Luzon State
University or known as CLSU was being became my receiver university, are you
excited to know more about CLSU? Do not go anywhere, I will tell you everything
on the next update.
There
was no time, we checked in at 09.00 am and one hour later we were picked up by
the dean of Education Department Faculty Dr. Gaboy and Ma’am Hiyasmin as
college secretary and they took us traveling around Munoz city and SM
Cabanatuan city and helped us to get some stuffs such as internet card, and
another student’s stuff for my teaching preparation. That was amazing; we could
observe the environment and people around us.
When
we arrived in the dormitory, we prepared ourselves to take a rest due we had
tight schedule before, and on the evening the others SEA-Teacher participants
from Indonesia who already arrived at CLSU earlier took and introduced us to
campus market which will be the places where we could buy food and students’
stuffs. And after that we have our dinner with the other participants. And sure
we met the other exchange students from another country in ASIA; it makes me
learn more about diversity especially their culture, languages, and many more.
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