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Closing
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Despite
setbacks - a power outage and the failure of the guest speaker to appear
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Preparation The program will start at 9 o' clock. The guest speaker is Mayor Gerardo Flores of Miag-ao. Mayor Flores' staff has assured our group his coming to our program today. That is the reason we were a little tense getting this program ready. By 8 o' clock, the barangay's karaoke was ready. Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance No. 1 will be the background music as our pupils receive their certificates and ribbons. The tables and instructional materials were slowly moved to the front and arranged for the turn-over ceremony. A little later, the group members assigned to prepare the pupils' snacks arrived with their tetra-packs and tuna & egg sandwiches. The games committee was also almost ready with their props and candies. The people of Brgy. Sapa brought forward their own chairs for the audience, which happens to be themselves. Meanwhile some of them installed a temporary roofing to provide shade. At first we wondered why the children were nowhere to be seen. However, when they appeared just before the program started, we understood. All the while, their parents were meticulously dressing them up to their very best. Seeing them, one would find no evidence of the poverty that their barangay suffers. The girls especially had make-up, lipstick, and some with neatly braided hair. They were like attending a ball. So everything was like, ready! Then suddenly, the power goes out! Ok, fine. We can do without the background music anyway, and the speeches can be delivered, with a louder than usual voice. Oh yeah, where is the guest speaker? It is now 10 o' clock and the group could only look at the people coming, hoping one of them was Mayor Flores. We waited for a while, in case he was late. We called his office, but it's a Saturday. At 10:15am, the children were here, Eureka! members were here, the parents were here, who needs a guest speaker? Program
Proper Finally comes the main part, each child who participated in our Day Care Learning Program, who attended at least one meeting, would receive a Certificate of Partiipation. And so they did, with each having their turn in front and a quick snapshot. The Barangay OIC, our NSTP coordinator and group leader presented the certificates to the parents and their child. Our group also presented a Certificate of Appreciation to the Brgy. Service Point Officer "for going beyond the call of duty by offering her own house for the safekeeping of UPV Eureka!'s tables, chairs, and instructional materials". The deserving officer thanked our group by assuring us of her commitment to the continuance of the project. After all the certificates were given out, an equally important part comes. Ribbons were awarded to pupils who were "Most Active", "Most Well Behaved", "Most Responsible", and "Best in Art" among many others. The parents' smiles glimmered with pride as they pinned the ribbons on their children. After the ribbons were awarded, it was time for the turn over ceremony. There, in the presence of the entire community and guests, UPV Eureka! formally turned-over the tables, chairs, and instructional materials to Brgy. Sapa. The Brgy. OIC received the donations in behalf of Brgy. Sapa. Of course, this is only the initial turn-over, in the near future, more donations would come and will be given to the barangay. The program took a spontaneous turn when the children decided to give some more presentations. With this, the children danced the local hits, "Ispageti" and "Otso-otso". With the absence of electricity, the entire audience sang the lyrics while one of Eureka!'s members strummed her guitar. They were thus, presentations by the entire community, and everyone enjoyed it. After a brief group-picture shot, it was time for snacks. We provided the children with tuna & egg sandwiches and tetra-pack juices. This is of course very different from their usual one-peso bread snacks. Meanwhile, to our group's great delight, the parents of the children we have taught and fed for the past 11 weeks prepared a generous assortment of native snacks for us to feast on! This was something we never even thought they'd do. Lined up on a table with the native snacks, were also plenty of delicious coconuts. Somebody had said that this was their way of thanking us. Certainly we were already happy to see the children having fun while learning, but this was really heart-warming. Thank you! There was much more food than the thirteen members of our group and guests could finish.Still they insisted we take them home. Everything's not over yet! It was a warm, sunny day, so we prepared several traditional outdoor games for the children. One of them was hit-the-pot. Several of our older pupils tried their luck in breaking hanging clay pots while blindfolded. Some missed. Some cracked them. But, eventually, the stubborn pots gave way and a horde of children scrambled to pick up the candies that fell everywhere. Another game involved a hanging bamboo frame from which candies and little toys hang, locally known as pabitin-bitin. As the frame was lowered to the childrens' reach, everyone grabbed whatever they could. But before a second has passed, it's back up there. Then down again, and up, and so on. Some children cried when they didn't get anything, but its not over yet. We ended the games by throwing bags of candies to the crowd. Hopefully, everyone got their share. That was all for the Closing Program. The children roamed the barangay with their ribbons on. We wouldn't be surprised either if in the future we find their certificates hung on a frame inside their homes. We all hope they find and remember the parting message we left microprinted around the border of their certificates: "Thank you for taking part in our project. We wish you had as much fun learning from us as we had learning from you. We also hope that any help we have given you during our classes, you would also share with other people in the future, when you've grown. For now, we may be parting ways, but certainly we hope to meet you again in the future. May you find the fulfillment of living life according to its real purpose. Find out what it is. God bless!"
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Our NSTP Coordinator delivering his impromptu inspirational message | |||||||||||||
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Turning over ceremony. From left is the NSTP Coordinator, the Brgy. OIC, and UPV Eureka!'s group leader | |||||||||||||
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The children dancing "Otso-otso" to the tune of our guitar | |||||||||||||
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The girls
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The audience of our Closing Program watching our pupils' presentations | |||||||||||||
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The parents of our pupils presented our group with a fairly generous thanksgiving snack. | |||||||||||||
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Everybody
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Our
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