THIRD YEAR OUTBOUND

Posted August 4, 2009  

           Don Bosco Technical Institute-Makati has always recognized that learning is not limited within the four walls of the classroom. That students be given a firsthand and sensible experience of whatever is taught in the classroom is of prime importance.  To achieve this goal, the High School department has once again teamed up with LAKBAY KALIKASAN – a company whose Outbound Education program, as stated in their website, seeks “to validate the theoretical learning inside the classroom and apply these to the real world in real time and real conditions.”

           Last July 11 and 25, 2009, the Third Year level became part of this outbound experience which is the first of its kind in the country.  It’s an educational trip and theatrical performance rolled into one.  Entitled “KAWAL NA WALANG SANDATA”, this interactive play seeks to inculcate values of honor, patriotism and courage among the Filipino youth.  Led by two actor-facilitators, the students became newly recruited soldiers even for just one day.  Their day started at 7:30 am with a visit to the AFP Museum in Camp Aguinaldo, Q.C.  There they got to see artifacts, memorabilia and old planes which are part of the AFP’s proud tradition.  At 11 am, the “soldiers-in-training” trouped to Camp Capinpin in Tanay, Rizal for a series of military routines.  They began their afternoon with the “Budol Fight” which turned out to be a sharing of their packed meals and not an actual fight.  After that, they had their training in jungle survival, a walk-through the obstacle course and the 2 and 3-rope courses.  They even got to see heavy ammunitions being fired.

           At the day’s end, after all the activities, the third years went home exhausted, probably starving,  but richer in experience.


          In Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City, the students proved they could march, turn to their left and right (with a considerable number of hilarious mistakes),  turn about and do “ISAHANG BILANG… NA!”

 

          

          In Camp Capinpin in Tanay, Rizal, the students became soldiers-in-training for a day.  Here they stand excitedly waiting for the heavy ammunition to be fired.

 

 

         

           The students overturn their food containers to share their packed lunch with everybody: classmates, teachers, outbound facilitators, military officers and soldiers.

          

 


          This was what was left after the so-called “Budol Fight” where the students shared their packed meals over long tables lined with banana leaves.

 

         

 

           The 3-rope course, set over a man-made lake,  proved to be the easiest and the most fun for the students.