As part of the school's curriculum, we have a community exposure every semester for 1 month. Thus, we spent our 3 weeks at Bgy. Songcuya , Diplahan , Zamboanga Sibugay and we had a glimpse about the life in the rural area . when we arrived , i was surprised by the people since we have our new kitchen and comfort room . I remembered from our first exposure is that the place was small but it is enough for us to call a shelter. Our kitchen and bathroom are located outside. When we would like to eat our lunch,we have to cook with a piece of plywood that serve as a shield against the heat of the sun.But 1 year has passed,the people have full of surprises for us . In our second exposure , there were improvement, our stove was now inside and they prepared a bed for us . Then now they alloted a budget for the kitchen a and CR. it's really amazing that the people are very generous and hospitable. What I have experienced there was pure generosity . In fact, they taught me how to be give without expecting in return. They also taught me to live simple and to value relationship.
In this exposure we implement some of our plans in the community. We formed a core group and listened what the community people wants. I was apprehensive if they wanted the project but it turned out the people are very cooperative.I also admire our bgy. Capt and the people since they are really supportive in the projects and they wanted it to be implemented right away .
In our exposure, We were like teachers. We prepared teaching tools , study the lesson proper and even practice with my groupmate on how we shall teach the students and mothers. I enjoyed teaching the day care students about the food groups and singing with them the
bahay kubo song . We also had mother's class giving me the opportunity to enhance my public speaking skills and to discuss about breastfeeding and nutrition. I admit it is really hard to teach in the vernacular language although my bisaya was not fluent but the mother had fun and at the same time learned . I also enjoyed chatting with the mother while they are cooking for the feeding program.
We still had more activities to be implemented like the toilet bowl project, health teaching about BP reading to the BHW but it was cut short because of inevitable circumstance.