Archive for June, 2008
Off To School On Two Wheels — An Eco-Friendly, Health-Friendly, and Pocket-Friendly Means of Transportation
WHAT A mouthful! I haven’t written a title longer than that.
I just would like to share with you that starting today, I will go to school, which is about 3 kilometers from home, on my new bicycle — the bicycle that blogging bought. I bought it last Saturday and had some practice until Sunday evening. Now, I could feel pain on my back and my legs. But I’m sure, I will get used to this.
But why did I decide to buy a bicycle aside from that I can’t afford a motorcycle?
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Where’s the Learning Curve?
MY TWO latest posts describe the gravity of the damage caused by the flood that hit my hometown last Friday. I thought that the image of the wreckage that can be seen along the now so desolate highway would melt the hearts of the people and stimulate them to introspect. I was wrong.
Last Sunday, two days after the flood, people still flocked around a cockfight beside the flooded gallera, within a stone’s throw, affected families were still shoveling out mud from their houses.
In Ladol (one of the flooded villages) people continued celebrating their fiesta. It could have been a sign of moving on until a drunken brawl left several people wounded and a few more incarcerated.
Last night, in a beerhouse next to this internet cafe where I’m blogging, one man was slashed — whether he’s now dead or still alive, I don’t know.
Christians like us would say that disasters take place because God wants to remind us to turn from our wicked ways and go back to the path of righteousness. But where’s the learning curve?
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The Aftermath
Posted by ayel in Current Events, Features, Sarangani on June 24th, 2008
FOUR DAYS after, you can still feel the agony caused by the flood to more than 600 affected families. The following are pictures taken at Purok Maharlika, on the way to our school. According to a friend who works at the Provincial Capitol told me that the flood had caused greater damage in Ladol, a coastal village.
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The Flood
Posted by ayel in Current Events, Sarangani, Teaching on June 21st, 2008
IT HAPPENED again after almost eight years — only, it’s stronger this time.
I thought it wouldn’t rain as hard as it did yesterday. When we arrived from Marbel at about half past three yesterday, the sky was not really dark. After my last class, it started to drizzle. Then the wind started to blow. Soon after, the sky darkened and a heavy downpour followed.
The students who were getting ready to go home started to worry. There were only few vehicles on the school grounds so some of them started walking under the rain out of fear that the rain would not stop until nightfall.
I told my co-teacher that it was the strongest rain I have seen in years. She told me that it was just normal. But I had a gut feeling that if it would last for half an hour more, a flashflood of the same magnitude of the one that took place on November 1, 2000, would hit our town. Read the rest of this entry »
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A Possible Relief–DepEd Releases Guidelines on the Implementation of the 6-Hour Classroom Teaching Load
THIS MORNING our librarian gave us photocopies of an article from the broadsheet about DepEd’s implementing guidelines on the 6-hour workday for teachers.
I read it carefully and I realized that it actually didn’t shorten the number of hours of work in a day. It only limits the number of hours of classroom teaching to six. The remaining two hours would be spent for teaching-related activities like, preparation of lesson plans, visual aids, rubrics, home visitation, consultation, among others. It doesn’t make a really big difference.
Nevertheless, I appreciate it because it is never easy to facilitate classroom activities for more than six hours. When I reach home after each school day, I could feel that my leg muscles are sore. I also don’t talk a lot at home, else, I damage my vocal folds. I even told my mother, “Nay, sayo jud ko ani matigulang.” [Mother, with this stress, I'll face old age early.]
Good thing, teachers who are given loads of more than 6 hours a day are entitled to an additional compensation computed at the same hourly rate of the regular compensation. That means, since I’m given a seven-hour load each day, I’m entitled to another one hour worth of compensation. (Yay, I won’t need to ask for cash advance. Haha.) However, when there’s no available funds (which is true for most schools), an hour of overtime work shall be counted as 1.25 hours of service credits.
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