Day4 in the Philippines

Day4 (12/10/2017)

My impressive day

              I got up early morning (5 a.m.) I took a shower hastily because we would go to visit the community. Then, around 07.00 a.m. ma’am Blink came to take us. We took the bus for the journey. At first, I got on the bus; I was surprised because there were many students on the bus (nursing students) would go to join us. Mr. Jayson Puzal (the head of community health nursing) told us about the schedule of today and introduced himself, and then he told us to introduce ourselves. When we finished, nursing students of UST introduced themselves.

      Then, we talked together, somebody gave me a snack, I teased them by telling them “Everyone! I made this snack and I took it for all of you “and they laughed so hard. “You are a humorous man”, they said. I asked them about what the local special dishes in the Philippines that I should try. They listed for me; we took around three hours for traveling. Then, we were talking together while traveling.

        We arrived the RHU-ll clinic is the clinic of Floridablanca district or they called the clinic of the town. We walked inside the rooms and listened to the teacher about this clinic. She said that some people who get the disease or injured, they will come here for getting treating also the minority “Aeta” will come RHU-ll as well. Then, Mr. Jayson explained about the level of treating program that arranged by UST. Then, he asked for a volunteer to practice measuring blood pressure. Then, we went to the municipal hall of Floridablanca, Pampanga to meet the leader of this community, Hon. Darwin R. Manalansan. But he got an accident schedule, we missed him. Gladly, his secretary was very kind. She treated us the lunch with Ma’am Blik and Mr. Jayson.

         Around 1 p.m. We aimed to Pampanga to try the Boodle fight; it is the local traditional eating with hands. There are three types of foods that we tried (Balisusong, Fried Chicken,

Sisig, Fried Tilapia).    Then, we visited the local family to talk with them and take care of some patients. My friends said that we can cook them some foods or clean their houses. So, before leaving their families somebody gave us a lot of long green beans, I appreciated it.

           Then, around 14.00 we went to visit the “KAPATAN or AETA “minority group. At first, we saw them; they were holding the Thai national flag. I am surprised that they prepared a performance show for us. They cannot speak English, but they can understand Tagalog Language. They invited us to join them for dancing. And I joined them, we danced together. After that, we gave some presents to reward them for showing us a performance show. Then, we took some pictures together. Then, we went back to Domus dormitory; we took around three hours to come back UST.

         I learned more things from today. I experienced about multicultural of Filipino.

I met many native people and tried to know their tradition. Thank you for today