Lovely Ruth S. Dela CruzSTC-112 2M

To be part of the Civil Welfare Training Service (CWTS) under the National Service Training Program (NSTP) has been helpful to me since last semester. Being involved in this activity, teach me lot of things that an average or an excellent student would never be able to learn in some academic subjects. Through brief discussions, immersions with different activities and different programs, I as a student of the University of the East Caloocan learned from these little things. Based on our scheduled immersions, we did Baranggay familiarization, community survey or interview, Baranggay painting, and Feeding Program. In Baranggay familiarization, we came there to see and to be used to everything concerns within that community such as the houses addressed in baranggay Uno, different places and ways there, and we also went there to see and meet those individuals residing there. We did this familiarization for us to be able to adapt with the communitys perspectives and way of living, for us to know the necessities and needs of the residents, for us to know their different types of behavior and their culture, for us to learn new thing through them. A week after the baranggay familiarization, we did the community survey or the interview, by preparing our self-made questionnaires in accordance with our pre-observation in their area and the way their authorities organize their people and their community. By interacting to different types of people, whether man or a woman, young or old, we learned how to accurately approach people depending on their age and on their characteristic. We learned how to fit with their standards. We also found out that not all people may agree or disagree about a certain way of the authorities organization and manipulation of their works and projects. Through that kind of activity we learned lot of things about their community and their people. These are only few of those things we experienced and learned in NSTP, simple things that are not easily learned inside an usual classroom, things that are not easily found in academic subjects, things that are not read in a particular book, but things that we had enjoyed, cherished, played, learned, outside our ordinary world, with different kinds of people, that we only met by that time. We learned socially, economically, environmentally, physically, emotionally, mentally and we really do learn totally.