Ana+Domagas+on+Outbound+Trip

In my experience upon visiting the Jaime Hilario School, I began to realize how MUCH I can be of help with the kids here. Seeing their faces and those genuine smiles it enabled me to interact with them easier. If there was one thing I can tell with the kids is that they never get tired of running around and talking and playing. At the end of the day, it was the facilitators who gave up and grew tired of keeping up with the kids energy :)

The activity that we chose to do with the kids was supposed to be an interactive lantern creation that would motivate their creativity in art. However, not everything that was planned went accordingly since there was not actually enough time to make it. As a back up plan, Cams resorted to doing an origami instead. For me, this turned out a lot better since I can see from the kids that they were able to enjoy playing with the origami'ed leaping frog as compared to a simple lantern. After interacting with the grade2 students, we headed to cleaning the beach front. Trash bags and gloves were prepared and we started walking back and forth through the beach, picking whatever trash we see. This was a good activity because not only were we cleaning the environment, but also we were helping the communities to keep it that way by taking them with us as we picked up litters.

And lastly, who will not forget the performances made by each group at the end of the day??? I remembered that it was in this part of the day that I didn't stop laughing, especially when Ikee's group performed. It was actually a nice way to end the activities because everyone was laughing and not stressed from their academics. What I have learned from this outbound field trip is that my capacity to help others can go beyond than just visiting and interacting with such communities if I give more focus and importance on my social responsibilities. Knowing how fortunate I already am, just by being in this school, makes me want to give some to the communities. I would like to impart the education and knowledge I have learned to be able to contribute to their growth and improvement on the quality of life. Truly, this trip was more memorable than I ever expected it to be.