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Our ISOCREC class had a field trip last month. It was at a La Salle school in Bagac Bataan called Jaime Hilario Integrated School. I think it was the farthest field trip that i have experienced and it was also the most relaxing one even if the trip is long and tiring.

I woke up around 5:30 in the morning, feeling very excited about the trip, so that I would not be late and be at school on time. While I was on the way to school i was wondering how my day will be and i was thinking of what i can do to make the kids at the school have the time of their life. Our plan was to make sky lanterns with the children and i was thinking of things that would make them enjoy doing those lanterns. A lot of things went on in my mind. I was creating different scenarios of what the trip would be, generally it would be fun and successful. Yet some of the things i planned on my mind did not happen during the trip, it was still a fun and successful one.

We were supposed to make sky lanterns with the kids but because of time constraints we were not able to make them. We instead taught the children how to make origamis and played with them the whole afternoon. It was fun playing with children and talking with them because it seems like they have no problems with their life and it is nakakahawa. For a slight moment of time I forgot the problems that i was facing and concentrated on having fun with the kids. These trips can be so tiring but also relaxing at times. This was the part that i liked most about the trip. Playing with children brings back old memories when the only problem we have is to be at bed at 9 in the evening and make sure that we catch an episode of the cartoons we follow during the afternoon on the local television stations.

After the activities with the kids we were tasked to do shoreline cleaning. This was also a fun part of the trip because we had a chance to go to the beach and pick up litters that are brought by the huge waves. We did this with other students as well. it was really fun because all you can see is nature and it is clean unlike the environment in taft. While i was picking up the litters, i pondered upon the idea of cleanliness. It came to my mind because of the pristine waters of the area and thought that maybe just maybe manila bay can be clean like that and people can go there a take a quick dip after a tiring day at the office. So why can't people just throw their trash properly so that everything would be clean? It gave me an idea that we should definitely care for mother nature. After the quick beach activity we wrapped up the trip and made our own presentations.

All in all the trip was a success. I learned a lot of things and enjoyed my stay there with the children. Outbound trips are beneficial to students because it gives them a quick BIG break from the daily routine that we do. It also brings back memories and let people make time to reflect upon the things they have been doing and how these things can impact the society.