Remember the Filipiniana costume that Dylan wore to the Nutrition month activity that I posted about here? Well, this time he used it for the Buwan ng Wika celebration in school. Buwan ng Wika is that time of the year when schools focus on celebrating the Filipino language through poetry, songs and dances, choric recitations and more. It is an expanded form of the "Linggo ng Wika" when the activities were celebrated for a week. Dylan's 2013 Buwan ng Wika presentation
August 31, 2013
Remember the Filipiniana costume that Dylan wore to the Nutrition month activity that I posted about here? Well, this time he used it for the Buwan ng Wika celebration in school. Buwan ng Wika is that time of the year when schools focus on celebrating the Filipino language through poetry, songs and dances, choric recitations and more. It is an expanded form of the "Linggo ng Wika" when the activities were celebrated for a week.
Remember the Filipiniana costume that Dylan wore to the Nutrition month activity that I posted about here? Well, this time he used it for the Buwan ng Wika celebration in school. Buwan ng Wika is that time of the year when schools focus on celebrating the Filipino language through poetry, songs and dances, choric recitations and more. It is an expanded form of the "Linggo ng Wika" when the activities were celebrated for a week. 
Dylan's celebration of Nutrition Month in school
July 20, 2013
One of the more recent school activities that I've experienced is Nutrition month. It's a very practical demonstration of health and fitness that makes it easy for students to understand its value. Teachers, though have to be creative when they plan their class programs.
In Dylan's case, their preparations included making the hat with plastic veggies on it at home and practicing their song and dance number in school. Now, our part wasn't so hard to accomplish. It just meant that Dylan and I needed to take a trip to Quiapo and buy our materials from there. Interesting enough, even the sellers at Quiapo were attune to the needs of the schools and already had a bunch of veggies packed and ready to sell. Others also had the ready-made hats with the veggies! Dylan and I chose to create our own so we bought the separate hats and veggies.
One of the more recent school activities that I've experienced is Nutrition month. It's a very practical demonstration of health and fitness that makes it easy for students to understand its value. Teachers, though have to be creative when they plan their class programs. In Dylan's case, their preparations included making the hat with plastic veggies on it at home and practicing their song and dance number in school. Now, our part wasn't so hard to accomplish. It just meant that Dylan and I needed to take a trip to Quiapo and buy our materials from there. Interesting enough, even the sellers at Quiapo were attune to the needs of the schools and already had a bunch of veggies packed and ready to sell. Others also had the ready-made hats with the veggies! Dylan and I chose to create our own so we bought the separate hats and veggies.
Trip to UST Museum
June 28, 2013
The trip to the UST Museum was initiated from a simple FB post made by my High School friend Maita who wrote about playing Chinese Garter in the College of Science. Since I was from the College of Science, I immediately thought of the egg sandwiches that I used to have for lunch and snacks there. I asked Maita if they still had them and they did!! That prompted me to meet up with her and combine a trip to the UST Museum since that's where she works.
Just for fun, here is the FB post where we were discussing the food at the UST Varsity Canteen :) The truth was, we've been planning to meet up for so long but we never quite managed to make the schedules work. But in this instance, fate was with us and we were finally given the chance to see each other!
After our merienda, we went back down to the UST Museum and Dylan and I were given a guided tour by Maita. There was a new wing to the UST Museum called the Hall of Philippine Religious Images that wasn't there when I was a student (okay so it was a long time since I've been back). This consisted of religious artifacts brought by our Spanish colonizers and some which were locally-made in celebration of the Catholic faith.
Dylan was especially fascinated by the Natural History collection. Who wouldn't? Even I was particularly interested in these specimens of Philippine fauna.
If you want to visit the UST Museum, they're open from Tuesday to Saturday, 830AM to 430PM but are closed during Public and University holidays. Thomasians may enter free of charge upon presentation of UST I. D. or Alumni Card. Non-Thomasian Professionals will be charged PHP50.00 each while Non-Thomasian Students will be charged PHP30.00.
Just for fun, here is the FB post where we were discussing the food at the UST Varsity Canteen :) The truth was, we've been planning to meet up for so long but we never quite managed to make the schedules work. But in this instance, fate was with us and we were finally given the chance to see each other!
By the time that Dylan and I arrived, it was already snack time so we trooped first to the 4th Floor of the Main Building and had our snacks there. Naturally, I had egg sandwiches and they were still the best. Sure brought back memories!! Dylan loved them too and it was an eye-opening experience for him to be eating at the top of a building hahahaha
After our merienda, we went back down to the UST Museum and Dylan and I were given a guided tour by Maita. There was a new wing to the UST Museum called the Hall of Philippine Religious Images that wasn't there when I was a student (okay so it was a long time since I've been back). This consisted of religious artifacts brought by our Spanish colonizers and some which were locally-made in celebration of the Catholic faith.
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| From the UST Museum website |
We were also fortunate that at the time we were there, students from the Conservatory of Music were holding their recital and we were treated to really good classical, symphonic music. The acoustics in the Museum were exceptional.
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| Maita, Dylan and I |
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