Teacher(s) on Vacation

Kamustaka yo po? 
Time to go out

Clark Nayon Pilipino

(on Nayong Pilipino)

            Sunday, August, 18 2018 was time to go out. Being a good teacher was not always easy, many things should be done. To refresh and recharge our mind we were accompanied to some different places in Nueva Ecija to know more about Philippines environment, people, and cultures. The first place that we attend was Nayon Pilipino, this place is a cultural theme park complete with Philippines cultural and traditional buildings. We were arrived at 9.00 a m and quickly guided by a guide there. She explained everything that the park has, started with the traditional building that it has, there was 5 traditional building built from different places in Philippines, also there were built the Philippines heroes’ houses only the replication, old cathedral, a theater and some dance attractions. And in the theater we watched many Philippines cultural attractions, the attraction was very spectacular and marvelous. Philippines also consist of many islands and cultures. We also bought some tokens from the local sellers there and the souvenir was really good and colorful.

Mt. Samat and Sky Ranch

(Mt. Samat Monument)

            After colonized by Portuguese and Spanish, Philippines also were colonized by Japan for 4 months. The colonization was extremely happened, until one day there was a big war happened between Pinoy allied with American and Japanese soldier and the war was held on Mt. Samat on 1942 during World War II. There is a big monument which the monument built as admonishing the Philippines brave soldier who sacrificed their life to fight to Japanese soldier. The places also provide a historical museum which the museum keeps some war equipment such as guns, cannons, maps and war strategies, important announcement, knives, and other historical relics.

(Skyranch playground)

            Sky ranch was became our second destination after Mt. Samat. Before we went to sky ranch, we had our lunch on Supermall Pampanga and bought something for our tokens. Sky ranch actually a family play place, there are lot of games there, started with games for children until extreme games which only for adult people. We need to buy ticket first before play all the games. The games are: roller coaster, pirate ship, carousel, and many more.

Manila

(Manila)

            Before we go back to Indonesia, we were accompanied to go around to the Manila city. Manila is the capital city of Philippines, manila is very big and crowd city same like Jakarta, many tall building and vehicles. We went to City park, the biggest and largest park in manila, Rizal park, Chinese park, Mall of Asia to get some food for our family at home, we went to Manila with the Vietnamese but they were put in CLSU office in Manila because their departure will be on the next day. After accompanied Thao and Maan tu CLSU office, the driver took us back to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport and sent us back to Indonesia.   

(Manila)

(Manila Public Library)

(Manila Park)