Week 2 in Davao City, Philippines. Starts on Monday, January 29th 2018 until Sunday, February 4th 2018. The schedule for us it has to be our teaching week. But I'm kinda shock because UIC is really have sooooooo many events on January. So our teaching schedule it has to be postponed until the next week. My second week live in Davao City (honestly) was the hardest part of my life there. I felt homesick, I really want to go home since the first day of the second week. I really missed my family, my friends, my life in Indonesia. And I am not comfortable enough there, somehow. But life must go on, so I decided to not think about "home" anymore. In the second week, we were still go to Bajada every weekdays. I joined the school's program. I also could observed something. On Monday and Tuesday at the second week, the 9th grade students has an event called "Performance Task". The task is conducted 40% of their total score. So all Philippines do that things, because the task is from the government. They do the task with performing something and it is Drama. So on Monday, I could see their rehearsal for the Performance Task. They did the practice at the auditorium of Senior High School Building. And on the next day (re; Tuesday), they do the Performance Task in front of the teachers of the 9th grade, and also their classmates. This is the preview photos of me, my friend, and my students on Monday and Tuesday. On Thursday. The junior high school students were having their ceremony to closed the Teacher's Day Program. I really loved to seeing the ceremony. The ceremony is based on Catholic. Because the teacher's day of this moment is Catholic's Teacher Day. They held the ceremony at the Gymnasium at the morning. And the whole students and the teachers were do the Parade at the whole schools. This is the preview photo of the events. Because we don't really have any schedules at the second week. Ma'am Pregua and Ma'am Solomon were invited us to go to the mall with them. On Wednesday, Ma'am Pregua fetched us at the Bajada, and after that we straightly went to Victoria Plaza to have our coffee time with her. Instead of drinking coffee, we have our quality time at Mister Donuts. We shared our experiences of our observation week with her. It is nice things because we were homesick, and Ma'am Pregua came in the right time. And the simple things was make us happy. On the next day (re; Thursday). Ma'am Solomon invited us to have our quality time with her. We went to Victoria Plaza (again) with Shovie (one of the education program student). And she invited us to bought something at the grocery. Actually she treated us hahaha, and we are more happier than before. Because our life there, UIC already prepared refectory (kitchen and dining room) especially for us. And I know the all things there was new. So we do the grocery and bought so many foods. And also after that, finally we tried the famous fast food in Philippines, and it is Jollibee~ Because we really want to tried it since the first week of our staying. So we were happy for the simple things that they gave to us. It's all blessings for us :) Saturday, 3rd of February 2018 Happy birthday, Normi~ My friends from Indonesia are having her birthday on that day. So we did a little surprise for her in the morning. Me, Aliana, Syifa, and Mylene (our friend from UIC) were prepared some surprise for her. And also Ma'am Pregua and Ma'am Solomon have a plan to make a surprise for her. So they texted me, that we have to be ready at the late afternoon and do our surprise for her. So on 3 pm we were ready, and they came to our dormitory at Main Campus, Bankerohan. And they gave the cake for her. Finally, we met one teacher that we already met on our interview, called by Sir Rene (lol hello, Sir). After we finished our "real" surprise for her, they invited us to have our dinner at the outside of our dormitory. So we went to Ahfat Chinese Seafood Restaurant near Victoria Plaza. We went there by Tricycle. Because I really loved seafood, I felt blessed and sooooooo happy to eat there. The shrimp is really the delicious one. Honestly I can eat the whole plate of shrimp, but I kinda shy, so I just eat it a lil bit too much hahaha. We went there also with ate Lorna (our guide), and we met new teachers from Education Program there. This is the preview photos of us of Normi's Day. Sunday, 4th of February 2018 We were not tired when we go to somewhere with our relation. We already have our party on Saturday. But Sr. Erlin and Sr. Ancilla (sisters from Indonesia) were invited us to have another party for Normi again. Only simple party, we did our quality time as Indonesian. In the early afternoon, sr. Erlin was fetched us at our dormitory, and we straightly went to Abreeza Mall. We did our "jalan-jalan" there while waiting for sr. Ancilla. And for lunch, they treated us at the chicken restaurant. They said this is the gift for us of our presence at UIC. Thank you very much, sisters for the quality time with us.
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