Hello, everyone!
I'm excited as this is my first time joining and posting in the Daily Blog Community.
Oh! Today is a Monday.
Mondays may be difficult. Finding the drive to start your week strong can be challenging after a beautiful and peaceful weekend.
"There are many opportunities every single day, and Monday is the perfect day to seize them all." – Isabella Koldras.
We're back after a month of vacation. In our area, I teach at a remote school where most pupils are Indigenous people, also known as Aetas.
Today is the start of "Brigada Eskwela," The annual Brigada Eskwela, which translates to "school brigade" or "School Maintenance Week," which is a nationwide volunteer effort to improve public elementary and secondary schools by enlisting the help of parents, alumni, community organizations, and other volunteers to clean, repair, and maintain classrooms before the start of the school year, was established in 2003.
This year's Brigada Eskwela, which had the theme "Bayanihan para sa Matatag na Paaralan," highlighted the nation's volunteer initiatives to make sure that students, teaching and non-teaching staff, and learners all have a clean, safe, inclusive, and child-friendly learning environment while also boosting the resilience of schools and primary education.
It took us about two hours to go to school, and the journey was difficult since we had to pass by numerous mountaintops where the recent, persistently severe rainfall had eroded.
Soil erosion is the biggest problem here, aside from the other challenges of teaching in a mountain area. Although we have had incidents of this nature, it still worries us much.
The locals built a temporary path for people to go by after too much rain over the previous two weeks caused an eroding region to cause the road to collapse. We must walk and change into another jeepney to pass that route. We spent around 15 minutes walking.
Despite the struggle that characterized our Monday, we are thankful for the beauty of the mountain surrounding us. The beauty of the location cannot be denied, despite its eroded portions.
Our faces are refreshed by the cool breeze from the green, clear water surrounding us.
We were overjoyed to finally see our school and the people there after a month.
The principal of the school and the teachers led the program, which we started at precisely 9:00 in the morning. The program began with a parade. After that, we began the program correctly.
We appreciate the individuals or participants who collaborated with us to make "Brigada Eskwela" a reality. We can only conclude from it that "Bayanihan" is still around.
One of the fundamental components of Filipino culture, "Bayanihan," is where the Brigada Eskwela idea has its roots. The Filipino ethos of supporting one another as a community to complete work without expecting or asking for anything in return is called Bayanihan (communal togetherness) or concerted solidarity.