A very valuable experience can be studied in a
country, through a program organized by SEAMEO with the SEA-Teacher for
Pre-Service Training of Education Student program. This program puts us in a
school called St. Paul University of Surigao (SPUS) which has an address in the
City of Surigao, Surigao del Norte, Philippines.
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| at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport |
This trip starts on January 13, 2019, departing from
our campus, Majalengka University at 15.30 WIB to Soekarno-Hatta International
Airport and arriving at the airport at 22.00 WIB. Our flight from Jakarta to
Butuan requires several flights, from Jakarta to Manila using the Malaysia
Airlines plane with the Jakarta-Kuala Lumpur route, in Kuala Lumpur we transit
2 hours and depart again with the Kuala Lumpur-Manila route and arrive in
Manila at 10:00 p.m. On January 15, 2019 we made a flight from Manila-Butuan by
plane Cebu Pacific at 10:35 and arrived at Butuan at 01.00 p.m. When we arrived
in Butuan we were picked up by Sister Nicole De Marie Dabalus, SPC. Sister
Nicole is the program coordinator at St. Paul Surigao University.
Our journey from Butuan to Surigao took almost three
hours of travel by car, in the middle of the trip we took time to have lunch at
a restaurant in Butuan name Jollibee. Arriving at St. Paul University of
Surigao at 04.00 p.m. We were immediately directed to each dormitory and
greeting from President’s of St. Paul University of Surigao. After a while
resting and having dinner, we were invited by the Student Buddies to Guisano,
one of the departement store in Surigao, where I bought an adapter for
electricity, because the electrical plugs in the Philippines with Indonesia are
different.
The student exchange participants in this SPUS total
seven people, two students from Thailand
and five students from Indonesia. Two students from Thailand named Sunita
Janbat and Nutcha Paharn came from Valay Alongkorn Rajabhat University, while
students from Indonesia named Nurhalisa Jumahir from State University of
Padang, Septya Handayani from State University of Padang, Novita Nadhira Putri
from University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, Neti Fihani is from Majalengka
University and myself Sandy Kurniawan from Majalengka University.
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| Student exchange SEAMEO SEA-Teacher Project Batch 7 |
Januari 16, 2019 The first activity of this program
was the opening of the SEA-Teacher program at St. Paul University of Surigao
and the orientation of the program. Before the event we were invited to have
breakfast at the SPUS canteen, the first time we had breakfast at the SPUS
canteen with people and a different condition, after we finished we went to the
Board room to start the event, this event was welcomed by the university
president, introducing student exchange , the introduction of employees at
SPUS, an explanation of the facilities available at SPUS, after everything was
finished at around 12.00 p.m we all rested in each dorm and ate lunch at the
SPUS canteen. Then at 3:00 p.m we were invited to tour the SPUS campus starting
from the elementary school building, junior high school building, senior high
school building, performance buildings and finally we were invited to the main
campus which is located in the city of Surigao not too far from the school
building and on the main campus. In this event we were introduced and explained
about the rooms in the SPUS guided by one employee at SPUS and SPUS junior high
school students, this event ended at 6:30 p.m. We all have dinner together at
the girls' dormitory.
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| Library Junior High School |
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| Vice President office |
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| Main Campus St. Paul University Surigai |
On the second day, January 17, 2019, we took part in
the flag ceremony at 07.45 a.m. until completion at 08.00 a.m., after finishing
the flag ceremony we all waited to meet with the cooperating teacher to discuss
the placement to be used as a place of teaching practice. At this event we
express our expectations for this program and the expectations of SPUS for the
smooth running of this program. But Neti and I cannot meet our cooperating
teacher because we did not go to school. This program resulted in class
provisions for our teaching practice, namely four people in elementary school
and three people in junior high school. After we finished we all took a break
to prepare ourselves for observations in the afternoon and lunch at the SPUS
canteen. At 2:00 p.m. we all made observations to the classes that had been
determined, but Neti and I did not go to the class that was supposed to be in
class 10 but I made observations in grade 8 with physics subjects while Neti
conducted observations in grade 9 with chemistry subjects. When making
observations in the first class I found students who were active and very
diverse in character. Especially when told to do outdoor activities, these
students are very active and very happy, the material taught is about
earthquakes, how we acted before the earthquake, an earthquake occurred and
after the earthquake, the students were told to make video of these activities.
Observation activity on that day was finished at 05.00 p.m., this time the
activity was quite exhausted because Mr. Sergio Basitil goes around seeing his
students make a video. After the activity was finished, all of us had dinner
together at the girls' dormitory again.
Meeting with Cooperating Teacher
The third day came at SPUS, on this day the activity
was only classroom observation, as usual we attended a flag ceremony before
conducting learning activities. The SPUS flag ceremony is held every day before
learning activities. After the ceremony, we were introduced to SPUS junior high
school students as observers and who will practice teaching in SPUS junior high
schools. The observation began at 8:00 but I was invited by Mr. Sergio went to
the music studio to listen to his students practice music, after listening to
the music practice we went back to a different class but still in 8th grade, in
the class discussed the earthquake as well and a review of the video yesterday,
and was asked to recreate the video with a theme already determined by Mr.
Sergio. And we went around looking at the students who were making videos, and
the class became the last class in the morning session and I asked permission
to get ready to go to the mosque to run the Friday Prayer. I left for the mosque
at 11:30 a.m. I was escorted by one of the Student Buddies namely Marc on his
motorcycle. Muslims in Surigao were very friendly, I finished the Friday Prayer
at 12:45 p.m. and was picked up again by Marc then delivered back to the SPUS
building. Today did not have time for lunch because I had to observe again at
1:00 p.m. but it did not make me unhappy, I continued to be enthusiastic about
participating in the activity. The class that became the object of the next
observation was the 8th grade, when we came to the class the situation was very
messy with the children who were still working on the assignment, Mr. Sergio
immediately told his students to clean the class before doing the learning
process. Same with previous classes Mr. Sergio discussed the facts about what
activities should be carried out before an earthquake occurs, during an
earthquake and after an earthquake and instructs students to make a video of
the methods carried out during the earthquake according to the facts given.
Today's observations finished at 05.00 p.m. and as usual we had dinner together
again at the girls' dormitory.
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Introducing
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Butuan National Museum
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The next day, Saturday, January 19 2019, it's time
to take a walk, today the agenda is a tour to Butuan City. Today's tour is to
Butuan National Museum, we depart from SPUS at 7:30 a.m. and arrive at Butuan
at 10:00 am, all the way we joke, laugh and see beautiful scenery especially
when you see the lake, on the way to the museum we got lost on the road but
finally arrived at Butuan National Museum. Butuan National Museum contains the
history of the Philippines and the history of the formation of the city of
Butuan, in this Museum there is also archaeological evidence of the colonial
period by Spanish colonialism such as the human skull at that time, the tools used
at that time, and objects that became the main attraction namely a wooden boat
found in the area named Balangay. The museum is divided into three parts,
namely a prehistoric and archeological room filled with prehistoric items and
artifacts found in them. The technology building, this building contains items
used by people at that time but more modern than artifact artifacts in
archeological buildings such as those made of metal, there are already woven
fabrics, musical instruments and others. The last is a building in which there
are various paintings on canvas, each painting has a very deep theme about
civilization and the peace of each painting has a different theme. After
listening to the story from the tour guide about history, about the explanation
of the objects there, we also left the museum and had lunch in front of the
museum building. When we are finished we head to the second museum, Butuan
Archaelogical Park, in this museum there is a wreck called Balangay, this large
sized boat used by ancestors who lived nomadically in Southeast Asia and the
Polynesian islands. In the museum also the ship was found exactly behind the
building where the remains of the Balangay ship were displayed. The Balangay
ship is made of the three hardest Philippine wood trees and has no metal in the
shipbuilding. After completing a visit to the museum, we set out to look for a
mosque to perform the midnight prayer and we found a Muslim village in the city
of Butuan. After carrying out the prayer we were invited by Sister Nicole to a
Mall in Butuan City namely Robinson Place, this Shopping Center Sister Nicole
said more complete than the one at Surigao. We all go around in the Mall, there
are those who buy shoes, personal needs, and the most exciting are the typical
Butuan City culinary hunting in the Philippines, but I never bought because I
was always told to spend what they bought. We at the Mall are given 2 hours and
we go home at 3:30 p.m. On the way to the SPUS, all participants were exhausted
and fell asleep in the car and we arrived at Surigao at 6:30 p.m. before
returning to the hostel we took the time to buy dinner at a dining place called
"Mang Inasal". After we finished buying food, we all went back to the
dorm to eat our dinner. This dinner is really delicious as if eating in
Indonesia the taste of the food.
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| Butuan National Museum |
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| Butuan National Airport |
Butuan National Museum
Sunday, January 20, 2019 is a holiday, there is no
special agenda from the SPUS so we went to Gaisano to buy some personal items
and we all had lunch at Jollibee in Gaisano. We departed at 10:00 a.m. who
participated were Novita, Neti, Tita and I we were looking around for personal
and shared items, eating food at Jollibee and scouring around looking for
Surigao specialties, we went back to SPUS around 12:00 p.m. and we rest in the
girls' dormitory. Actually we made an appointment with Marc at 2:00 p.m. to
accompany us to buy bags and print documents to Surigao City but there were few
obstacles so that we departed from SPUS at 3:30 a.m. using a typical Surigao
vehicle, Multicab for PhP 9 when we arrived at the store, Novita immediately
chose and buy a bag at a price of PhP 250, meanwhile Tita goes to the Money
Exchange to exchange Rupiah for PhP but unfortunately it can't because at
Surigao it's very difficult to exchange Rupiah to PhP. Then we go to the school
supply store to buy stationery, looking for a place to print out our documents
right at the print out place, we meet local Surigao people who work at the
place and apparently they are also teachers but teachers in public schools, and
we are invited to take photos together with them, we also meet Muslim women and
we are invited to tour the Surigao park and look for typical food and we find
quack, fishball, fishsteak, steakball. We go home from the park almost at 6:00
pm using the same vehicle which is multicab for the same fee and we do not go
directly to SPUS but to McD first to buy dinner and then go back to SPUS hostel
at 6:45 p.m., I am in the girls' dormitory until 09:00 pm because waiting for
the rain to subside first.
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