from the moon

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Today, is the second day of our orientation and of getting to know Ateneo de Naga University High School Fr. Raul Bonoan S.J. Campus!

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Everyone experienced to do their best to wake up as early as 5am! The class starts at 7:30am and as people coming from distance, we need to catch the early jeepney ride from Naga City to Pacol were the High School is located. 

Many things happened on this day. But before that, let us have a peek on our work place before we go to our classrooms and meet our resource teachers.

Look who are those early birds and the lates! 

:) As expected! 

The daily log sheet keeps our records of attendance and punctuality. Never forget to write your information upon arrival and leaving the campus.

Next is our work room!

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Inside our workroom, we have 3 tables and at least 10 chairs where we can put all our materials, have our meals, (and can be a bed for siesta!) YEAH! With four working electric fans, the place have good lighting and well-ventilated atmosphere! 

Presto! We are blessed to have a good place to stay!

MORE and MAGIS!

How about our FOOD? Siyempre di pwedeng magutom. Lunch and Breakfast are affordable at Pink Lace Canteen! Meals are provided with veggies as side dish!

Actually, lots of things happened today but I'll deal with them on my next posts! As of the moment, we are trying our best to enjoy the honeymoon stage and we are for now guided by the schools handbook kaya gaya ni Tiana, basa basa din since may time!

I'll end it here! Below are other pictures that we had today!

Today we went and were welcome at Ateneo de Naga University High School Raul S. Bonoan Campus, our school for practice teaching!

After a short orientation and campus tour, it is very joyful to know all the basics of the school and it seems that we found a very good place to learn more and do more as future Ignatian teachers. I bet, almost everything is provided (unlimited brown paper, ink, etc.) The place is fresh too unlike those in the city!

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It's December 2 and tomorrow is December 3! It means we are day to go to celebrate the Feast Day of the Patron Saint of Ateneo de Naga, St. Francis Xavier, for the year 2013!

Before the feast day celebration tomorrow, we had today a pre-celebration with the Xavier Honors' Dormers of Xavier Honors' Dorm!

Earlier, we were at Cabugao Elementary School to enjoy the feast day of St. Francis with the elementary kids of the community! Through the conduct of various games and storytelling about the life and mission of St. Francis, one of the successful outreaches that I attended happened!

We made many smiles from the friends that we get to know just after four hours! We were able to dance and sing! We bravely proved that we are not only academicians! We are also men and women for and with others like our hero of the day, Xavier!

Today, I feel excited for tomorrow and for the coming days! 

Two days to go, I will be on a new journey! The practice teaching of us,  Education Students will be this coming Tuesday at Ateneo de Naga University High School.

Before that day came I want to start writing again all the thoughts and experiences I will be having. This (tumblr) is a good way to post the wonderful moments of being a teacher!

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The idea of practice teaching is full of excitement to me when I enrolled in the subject. This is the last and I should be confident on what I have learned and experienced in my three and half years in college. Everything prepared me for this.

I am about to venture in the journey of commitment in action and I should look forward for it. This is the right time to test my skills and my personhood as an Ignatian formed educator. As I step out in the classroom of knowledge, I am taking the chances of making difference inside my own classroom. I promise to always find the happiness of acknowledging ones potential and the challenge of making someone learn what they need to learn under my care a worthy experience. And also to reflect more so I can know then the better way of teacher.

By now, I think I should lessen the idealism that I perceive to every student, they are someone that I don’t know so I must be a hundred in one percent prepared. And should always look forward for the unexpected things that are ready to happen soonest in this new journey.

The part of being pressured is also felt by me. Though I am not hesitant in my skills, there comes this realization that what if I am not that prepared or I am not a master of my subject. I am looking back to the past semesters when I was always taking my majors in a way that my semester is always a full or over loaded. How did I learn? Do I really grasp the ideas being imparted to me during those struggling days because I have lots of majors taken in one shot?

But I need to say yes to the challenge! I should stand firm at this point. The problem should become a solution instead of a burden. I will study hard and learn to review what I’ve learn by giving time to study every after my practice teaching schedules and at this point when we are yet preparing for our big day in our respective resource schools. I should also look for more inspirations to have this new relationship between me and practice teaching grow with full of love so I can fully commit myself to her. “Practicum muna bago ang love life”. An inspiration, perhaps they will be my family in Sorsogon, my teachers there and here, and my scholarship who gave me the best education that I have.

Practice teaching will be great! I know it! With positivity and right attitude, we can be in love with each other.  

Steve G. Guray

The core of being a man for and with others is the companionship built during and after the journey.”

 –Steve Guban Guray

Being part of Xavier Honors’ Dormitory community, a supporter of equality in the access of education in Bicol region, a volunteer and student-leader by heart, and a student achiever as expected in my scholarship; I had collected too many stories to share in my less than four years stay in Ateneo de Naga University. And for this, I chose to share the two meaningful and most memorable experiences where everything commenced!

May 28, 2010 (I'm quite unsure of the date)  - the first day of AdNU Orientation Seminar (ORSEM) for us, freshmen. I’m a new guy in the University. I came from the Province of Sorsogon (6-8 hours land trip to reach the City of Naga). At this particular event, I’ve met a city girl! She is a graduate of Naga City Science High School, we’re same in terms of age and both enrolled in the same course and major. I sit beside her before the grand program begun, instantly I found my very first friend! The simple greetings of hello and good morning added with a pure smile, made everything possible! From then, I have my very first Atenean friend, a new companion!

first leadership showcase. It was in the same event, ORSEM for freshmen. Again, I’m a new guy, now with a new found friend; by the way her name is Miriam. The challenge for the entire first year student is to win the ORSEM Cup, a friendly competition between colleges which aim at strengthening the ties and made a home to its new member in making their new start. To facilitate our section/block we had three education students who are upperclassmen, one of them was Kuya Lance who tried his best teaching us our college cheer so we can win ORSEM. He’s in the midst of more than 40 students and he was struggling to do everything to let us familiarize the cheer because of the noise coming from other colleges’ cheers. Seeing our kuya working so hard, Miriam told me that we go in front too and help him, so we did!