First Week: Welcome to Philippines


August 8, 2018

Sun rised. I have a morning view from the airplane. I'm not alone in this trip. I go with Tri, she is my classmate we are English pre-service student teacher and we will unseparated because we will share room in dorm. We are the first delegates come to PH, arrived at 06.30 a.m and Prof. Lagniton and the driver already fetch us in the airport. She is a supervisor of science. They are very kind and humble. I like Prof. Lagniton, she so graceful. Our first stop is UST, we took pictures in front of the main building then we go to the dorm to put our baggage. Our dorm located at Piy Margal street. It takes 5 minutes to go to UST by walking. After that, we have breakfast in UST food court.

We shared room with other delegate from Yogyakarta, Uun. She also an English pre-service student teacher. UST provide us with a comfortable dorm. There are 4 bed, 4 desks, a small kitchen and a bathroom. Look comfortable.
























August 9, 2018

All delegates already arrived last night and today we have orientation about UST and Education system in PH. Our buddy fetch us, they are Hana and JR. They are English pre-service student teacher. As soon as we arrived in College of Education, the dean and the supervisors warmly welcomed us. After the orientation done, we continued to the campus tour. Now, student from Social Science in charge to accompany us. They are Kate, Gail, Diether, Raven, Carlus, Karl, Rhein and Sierra. They are very kind,friendly and the best tour guide ever.































August 10, 2018

Second day woke up in PH! We have orientation in UST Junior School. Hana fetch us again, but she is alone today. Kandi, Icha and Ria will have practicum in Dominican School so they are not come to UST Junior High School. It's only 7 of us left. Tri, Uun, Faisal and I are English pre-service student teacher. An An and Hesta are Science. The last one is Keng, she is Math pre-service student teacher. We meet our cooperating teacher today. Ma'am Ramos is my cooperating teacher, she is very beautiful and fabulous. Same like yesterday, we have school tour after the orientation.

















August 11, 2018

Rainy day in the morning. Actually we have city tour today. We go to Rizal Park, Intramuros, National Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Manila with some lecturers from UST. In the afternoon, we go to Robinson Mall to have lunch and buy groceries. We really enjoyed today.


























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