Cebu Educational Trip

After joining the cultural heritage tour of Negros, I was fortunate enough to join an educational trip in Cebu City. This time as a volunteer staff of the tour agent. The group was composed of 2nd year Computer Science students from Northern Mindanao. Places of interest visited were museums, call centers, newspaper printing office and processing plants among others.



I was reminded when I was at their age. I was adjusting to a new school in Bacolod City. We had no educational tours then. Only field trips in the same community. But now, every year level in school has a program for educational trips, whether within or outside of their community.



Now, back to the students. I think they had a lot of first time experiences. Coming from Northern Mindanao, it was their first time to ride a ferry, first time to visit Cebu and first time to sleep in an air conditioned hotel. However, there were times that some of the students would rather stay in the bus to sleep than go to the place of visit. Well, it would be understandable at their age that they are timid, complacent and passive. It is just such a pity that their parents or guardians must have spent a fortune for their trip and the students aren't getting their money's worth.




I hoped the students were enriched by their trip. Because I was. One should enjoy one's youth. Travel while you are still able. We are so busy working now to save money for our retirement. When we retire, we can't be certain if we are in good health to travel. Such is life's irony.