On the third day, all students from Sea Teacher and Sea TVET had opportunities to visit the  office of Camilang, Tarlac province and the office of Santa Ignasias mayor. Our first visit was in Municipality of Camilang. Whe arrived there, we were amazed by the building office. It looks like a museum and it has unique construction unlike many building office in Indonesia. During our visit, the mayor of Camilang welcomed us well. He explained to us about the Camilang region and hes collaboration with Tarlac Agricultural University. He is really warm and friendly. He also served us with the local food of Camilang, which is called Tupig. Tupig is made of sticky rice flour and inside the sticky rice four there is coconut flesh and it is wrapped by banana leaves. And before we left, we had taken some pictures together. 

     After visiting the market, we went back to our hostel at TAU to get prepared for opening ceremony at 3 pm at TAU hall. After all of us were ready to attend the opening ceremony, we decided to take some pictures in the front of our hostel. It was really awesome because its my frist time to take some pictures with other students who are from different universities and country. All of us also wore different almamater which shows the identity about what university we are sent from. After that, we headed to the  hall where the opening ceremony was about to begin. We  had to register ourselves one by one before entering the hall. After that, one of our buddy guided us to proceed to our table. Every one table had some students names that enabled us to find the chairs where we had to sit. When everybody was already in the hall, the opening ceremony began. The MC opened the event by welcoming all the guests and pleased the head of Uni and coordinators who are handling the Sea Teacher and Sea Tvet program at TAU to deliver welcoming speech. The opening ceremony continued until dinner time. While we had our dinner together with all TAUs staffs, we were also enjoying the live band who entertained everybody in the hall. The opening ceremony event finished around 7 pm. My friends and I didnt forget to take some pictures together with all staffs and all the buddies. We also had to meet our mentors to discuss our preparation for briefing session, observation in the class, materials for teaching and what school and level what we will be teaching at. 

     After that, all of us went back to our hostel and preparing for writing blogs. well, thats my story on the 3rd days at Tarlac Agricultural University, Phillipine. There will be more interesting activities in the following days. So keep visiting my blog. Thank you. 

SEA TEACHER BATCH 6 AT TARLAC AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY

Day 4 in the Philippines (15th of August 2018)

      On the fourth day at Tarlac Agricultural University all of Sea Teachers students had Tagalog basic class. This will help us in doing our actual teaching practices in the classrooms. The class started around 8.30 am in the one of the rooms at the College of Education of TAU. We practised a lot and our teacher asked us a lot of questions in order to improve our Tagalog language. Since we practised a lot, most of students including me really enjoyed studying the basic conversation in Tagalog. The class was really fun. All students and all teachers who came in the class were really kind and helpful. Around 11 am we finished the class and we returned to our hostel by mini bus. Before, leaving, One of the coordinator of Sea Teacher batch 6 at TAU told us to be back in that building at 1.30 pm for orientation session with our cooperating teachers and supervisor. 

As we arrived at the hostel, we headed directly to our rooms to get changed. A few moment later, some students came in to the kitchen to cook for lunch. I cooked noodle and sausages for lunch that I shared with friends. After lunch, we then got prepared ourselves for attending the orientation session with our cooperating teachers at the College of Education of TAU. The bus driver arrived at 1.30 to pick us up and we went straight to the college building.

As we arrived, one of staffs at the College of Education instructed us to enter the room that we used to learn Tagalog a few hours ago. Not long afterwards, all the cooperating teachers, coordinators, as well as the supervisors came in and the session was about to begin. During the session we had to sign a some documents that are about aggreement for the placement program. After that, the coordinator asked us to discuss with or cooperating teachers about the plans for doing teaching practices in the classroom. I am very happy that I have Ms. Sharoon as my cooperating teacher and I will work with her for this program. She is such a supportive and thoughtful person. She told me that I will be handling grade 10 in Junior High School and grade 11 in Senior High School. And I discussed a lot about the material the she will teach to those classes. Since she is a literature teacher, she also told me that I will teach literature to her students. It surprised me at first because I am not really into literature when I was studying at my college back to Indonesia. But she convinced me that I can get by all of material about literature. 

    After the discussion, all students had short tour in Laboratory School at TAU. We visited junior High School and Senior High school classes and we tried to interact with students. After the tour was over, we went back to our hostel and take some rest. 

  In the Evening, we had small conference at the hall in our hostel. One of our buddy, Rens Mark, told us some information about taking care of the hostel and he also informed us to do an enrollment tomorrow morning at 7.30 at administration building of TAU. After the conference, we returned to our room, It was very late already, so we need to go bed immediately. 

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