“Unforgettable Moment”

 My Significant Experiences

Thursday, 18^th January 2018

          There is farewell ceremony in my campus, University of PGRI Yogyakarta (UPY) in the morning. After that, I went to my hometown in Bekasi. I leave Yogyakarta by train in the evening. Then, I stayed in my home for 2 days.

Sunday, 21^th January 2018

My experiences began at that day. I leave Soekarno Hatta International Airport by AirAsia with my new friends, Ghoffar from UNY and Aliya from UNS. In the evening, we arrived in Manila exactly at Ninoy Aquino International Airport. We met Ma’am Lagos as an executor coordinator sea teacher at Saint Louis University (SLU) and two other participants from Thailand, they are Mimi and Pami. We were ride a van went to Baguio City at 06:00 PM and we had dinner in Mall of Asia.

Monday, 22^th January 2018 (Day 1)

We arrived at the dormitory called Ladies Residence Hall (LRH) in Baguio City around 01:30 AM and take a rest for a few times. In the morning, I met all participants of SEA-Teachers batch 5. They are Alfian from UII, Irwan from Untad, Danti from ITS, Mila from Unila, Dinda from Uhamka, and Lina from Unlam. We also met our buddies from SLU. My buddy name is Moira. I was very happy to saw all of them.

Then we walked around SLU. After that we went to Burgos Conference Room, SLU Main Campus for welcome program at 09:00 AM. During the welcome program, we met our supervisors, headmasters and etc. They explained to us about SLU and the other thing that we need during the program because from this opening, the program would start.

Tuesday, 23^th January 2018 (Day 2)

          The agenda for that day is campus and school tour. We went to SLU Maryheight Campus in Bakakeng. It was a nice building in the mountain area with the fresh air.

After that, we went to SLU Laboratory Elementary School (SLU LES) and walked around. At the last, we went to SLU Navy Base Campus. This place is for student SLU Laboratory High School (SLU LHS) included Junior High School and Senior High School. I knew some differences between school in Indonesia and Philippines like name of the class.

          I met my cooperating teacher also in this day. Her name is Jennifer P. Bayao. She told me that I would teach math for grade 10.

Wednesday, 24^th January 2018 (Day 3)

          I did observation in school also the other participants. We must ride a jeepney to the school. We arrived at SLU LHS around 07:30 AM. The activities began from flag ceremony at 08:00 AM. After that, I stayed at 10-Mapagbigay class until the class end at 04:30 PM.

Thursday, 25^th January 2018 (Day 4)

          I still did observation in school. I arrived around 07:15 AM. I accompanied the students during flag ceremony and then I followed Ma’am Bayao’s class until 12:30 PM because they had a half day for that day.

Friday, 26^th January 2018 (Day 5)

          It was teachers day but the school still had class like used to. The students put their messages for the teachers on the floor in their class. Some of them gave the teachers flower, chocolate, letter, etc. I still followed Ma’am Bayao’s class until 04:30 PM.

Saturday, 26^th January 2018 (Day 6)

          That day, I made a lesson plan for next week with my buddies, Moira. She was very kind and helpful. She gave me suggestion to teach in class about tangents.

Sunday, 26^th January 2018 (Day 7)

          The agenda on that day is Baguio City Tour. Ma’am Ruby as math supervising instructor and Ma’am Kate were accompanied us. We start the tour from strawberry farm. That was a beautiful place. We put some strawberry and I was so happy. Then, we went to bencab museum, the mansion, and botanical garden. We took a lot of pictures together. 

Problems Encountered

In the first week of this program, actually my internally problem is about the adaptation. I mean adaptation for the language, the weather, the culture, the custom, etc. Sometimes I feel homesick because there are a lot of differences between Indonesia and Philippines.

I learn a lot of things during this week. About the education system, the main problem is how to manage class because the number of student at one class is too big (45-55). The other problem is the different special topic in math between Indonesia and Philippines. In here, teachers and students will discuss each topic very detail. In here, the student learn by theorem but in Indonesia, the students learn math by formula and not as detail as here.

Problems Hurdled

For my internally problem, I just give myself some positive suggestions. I learn especially from my cooperating teacher how to manage class. I borrow the textbook that used by students here and learn that they learn at the class before.