Bisita Iglesia sa Monte Maria


 Isang kakaibang karanasan ng paglalakbay mula sa bayan ng Laurel, Batangas ibat ibang bayan ang dinaanan marating lang ang lungsod kung saan matatagpuan ang isa sa mga dinarayo tuwing mahal na araw.

Naglakbay kami gamit ang motorsiklo. sa tantiya ko mga dalawa hanggang tatlong oras kaming bumiyahe.

Ang Lungsod ng Batangas kung saan sa may isang bundok ang mula sa paanan nito ay matatanaw na ang ipinagmamalaking Monte Maria. Napakagandang pagmasdan talaga, madaming ibat ibang makikita dito, mula sa kasaysayan at buhay ni Hesukristo. Maraming tao ang dumarayo dito upang magnilay nilay tuwing Semana Santa at isa na ako duon.

Ito ang daan paitaas.

                                                                               

Mula sa paanan matatanaw na ang napakalaking imahe ng Inang Maria

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Ito ang isa sa mga simbahan duon kung saan sariwa at dalisay ang hangin na pumapasok sa loob ng simbahan.

                                                         

 

Napakaganda ng tanawin mula sa itaas ng bundok.

Mula sa itaas matatanaw mo ang ganda ng kalikasan paikot. 

Ito naman ang loob ng mismong imahen, ito ang bahagi kung saan nagmimisa ang pari.
Hindi kami umabot sa pinakatuktok ng imahe sa kadahilanang ginagawa pa ito. Pero babalik at babalik kame dito upang makarating kami sa tuktok kung saan matatanaw mo sa kaitaasan ang buong lungsod. Umaabot sa 16th floor ang higanteng imahe ni Inang Maria kung saan, ayon sa mga taga doon ay halos abot langit na sa sobrang taas.

Isang munting sakripisyo para sa pananampalataya kay Hesukristo.
Malayo man pero sulit ang pagod sa ipinakitang kagandahan ng kalikasan mula sa Poong Maykapal.
Kung kaya bago kame umalis sa lugar hindi namin naiwasan na hindi kami mag picture taking upang sa tuwing makikita namin ito maaalala namin na minsa'y may mga bagay na hindi kayang palitan ng kalungkutan at pighati ang kaligayahan ng isang tao.

                     

Education Legacy: Empowering the Young The youth is the hope of ou...

Education Legacy: Empowering the Young

 The youth is the hope of ou...: Empowering the Young   The youth is the hope of our fatherland. Surely everyone will agree that youth empowerment can be attained throu...

THE TWIN FALLS OF LAUREL, BATANGAS

Far in the land of crater lakes and balisong, the town of Laurel in the province of Batangas keeps a duo of natural wonders mostly known only to its residents. The twin falls of Ambon-ambonand Malagaslas provide an attractive alternative for those who are looking to beat the intense summer heat. It's also great to pair it with a trip to nearby Tagaytay or Taal Lake, adding a bit more adventurous spin to an otherwise laid-back excursion.

Related Adventure: Guide to Taal Volcano

The falls are located on separate sides of a forest cover in Brgy. San Gabriel. From the jump-off in Sitio Salipit, each falls can be reached in more or less 30 minutes on foot. It'll then be a short trek to and fro the two falls. 

Ambon-ambon is the more rugged of the two. The trail to here is composed of crossing streams and going over large boulders. The falls is composed of two water drop-offs. It has a characteristic large slab of rock, on which a jet of water slides off to a swimming basin. Ambon-ambon is closed off with an enclosure of towering rock walls. Here, there are only four to five picnic huts and the surrounding flat area is limited to comfortably accommodate maybe 30 people.

The trail begins with crossing this bridge

The trails consists of stream-crossings

The trail to Ambon-ambon may be hard but there are numerous places for photo ops

The top tier of Ambon-ambon

A jet of water slides off a slab of rock

Related Adventure: DIY Guide to Balite Falls in Amadeo, Cavite

Malagaslas, on the other hand, has an easier trail. The area is larger and more developed, making it more suitable for picnics. A number of cottages can be rented and food stalls are also available here. The sandbagged pool which is fed by the cascading waters of Malagaslas is larger and is just deep enough for a relaxing soak.

The pool is fed by the cool waters of Malagaslas

Smaller pools are available farther up Malagaslas

Aside from the main swimming basin, a total of three small pools are available in Malagaslas

The main basin is large and deep enough for several people

HOW TO GET THERE

From Cubao or Pasay, take a bus going to "Tanauan City/Lipa." Alight at the Tanuan City bus terminal and take a tricycle to the city market. Here, walk to the jeepney terminal where you can board a jeep to Laurel. Get off at Laurel's public market and rent a tricycle to Sitio Salipit. Tell the driver you're bound for Ambon-ambon/Malagaslas Falls.

EXPENSES

Bus Fare Pasay vv Tanuan City bus terminal (Php101 x 2) = Php202

Tricyle Fare Tanuan City bus terminal vv Tanuan Public Market (Php20 x 2) = Php40

Jeep Fare Tanuan Public Market vv Laurel Public Market (Php50 x 2) = Php100

Tricycle Fare Laurel Public Market vv Sitio Salipit (Php75 x 2) good for 4 = Php150

Registration Fee per pax = Php20

Tour Guide fee = N/A; trail is relatively easy

Budget per pax (excluding food and other incidentals) = Php512

The picnic ground in Malagaslas

SAMPLE ITINERARY

05:00 to 05:30 - Meet-up at Pasay Bus Terminal 

05:30 to 07:30 - Pasay to Tanuan City bus terminal

07:30 to 07:45 - Tanuan City bus terminal to Tanuan Public Market

07:45 to 09:20 - Tanuan Public Market to Laurel Public Market

09:20 to 10:00 - Laurel Public Market to Sitio Salipit

10:00 to 10:30 - trek to Ambon-ambon falls

10:30 to 11:30 - Photo op/ swim

11:30 to 11:45 - trek to Malagaslas

11:45 to 15:30 - Lunch/swim/photo

15:30 to 16:00 - trek to jump-off

16:00 to 16:40 - Sitio Salipit to Laurel Public Market

16:40 to 18:00 - Laurel Public Market to Tanuan Public Market

18:00 to 18:15 - Tanuan Public Market to Tanuan Bus Terminal

18:15 to 20:30 - Tanuan to Pasay

Related Adventure: DIY Guide to Lake Pandin, San Pablo, Laguna

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

• ALWAYS PRACTICE THE LEAVE NO TRACE PRINCIPLES
• A good of portion of the road to the falls  are not yet developed
• Parking is available at the jump-off
• There are food stalls in Malagaslas, none in Ambon-ambon
• Cooking/grilling is allowed in both areas provided you bring your own wares and grills
• There are no washrooms immediately within the vicinity of both falls, but the nearby houses in Malagaslas offer their bathrooms for a fee
• You may contact Ate Dores to assistance to get to the falls. You may also request her to prepare you food. (details below)

Credit to:

Dennis Murillo

for wonderful pictures..

Empowering the Young

 The youth is the hope of our fatherland.

Surely everyone will agree that youth empowerment can be attained through educating our children.

The belief in education is so strong that when everything else has been taken away; it is treated as the answer to all our problems. And it all begins with education-at home , in school, and in the community.

And educating our children depends much on us, parents and teachers. The school is just there to assist the children in their needs and not to be solely held responsible in educating them...

 The youth are the instruments toward achieving the vision of youth empowerment.they probably just do not realize that they have what adults, because they have what adults do not have. And these are laughter, fantasy, spontaneity, acceptance an trust.These are important requirements in educating oneself.

 We can all emphasize.Childhood carries with a certain sense of freedom. Kids do not have to worry about putting food on the table or paying bills. Other people do their laundry and they play as long as they want.. Kids may have to work at getting their homework in on time, but it is not a matter of life and death. It is simply a matter of lower grades.

Responsibility is more than providing our children with the materials things they need. Responsibility means keeping your promises even the unspoken ones. And if for some reasons you fail to fulfill a promise, you take a full responsibility. You apologize, make amends, and then begin again...

Can songs help students learn?

Learning through a song may help students to better grasp the big picture

Can the use of songs in school foster students’ learning? In 2018, Ulm University researchers Janina Lehman n and Tina Seyfert published a study in Frontiers in Psychology that suggests that music may indeed have a place in the classroom.
       Lehman n first became interested in the question of music and learning when she attended a ‘90s-themed party. She noticed that everyone knew all the words to the Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys songs they hadn’t heard in years. “I started wondering why it seems to be so easy to recall lyrics and thought that I would like to investigate this phenomenon.“
There aren’t many detailed studies about using songs as a learning tool. Even though some teachers use music as part of their curriculum, the benefits they see are often anecdotal. Mary McLellan is one of these teachers. She teaches an advanced statistics course at a high school in Texas, and has created a collection of several dozen very short songs about statistics concepts that she uses repeatedly during lessons. Her students report that the songs help reinforce what they learned in class, and that they still remember them months later.

But, it’s difficult to separate the direct effect of a song from the rest of a student’s classroom experience. How can we tell whether it’s really the music that fosters learning? To answer this question, Lehmann visited a German high school, where she divided the students (aged 12-19) into three groups. The first group was taught a history lesson about King Henry VIII by listening to a recording of a song. The second group listened to the same lyrics, but spoken instead of sung. The third group read the same text without audio support.
All students were then given the same test to determine how well they remembered and understood what they had learned. Lehmann found that students who had read the written text were better at remembering the information, but students who had listened to the song demonstrated a better comprehension of the material.
        This difference is likely related to the different ways in which auditory and visual information are processed. Reading uses an additional processing step compared to listening. When we read a text, the information is processed in both visual and auditory channels, but when we listen to spoken or sung text, this bypasses the visual channel entirely. This makes processing of auditory information faster and comprehension easier – as long as there isn’t too much information.
When it comes to auditory information processing, Lehmann’s experiment showed a slight benefit of listening to a song compared to hearing the same text spoken. This effect could be due to the novelty factor of learning through music, or because the students enjoyed the melody. The act of learning through a song, for the first time, may have been enough motivation for students to focus more. On the other hand, the benefit of reading is that students can learn at their own pace and devote more attention to certain sections. So, while the students in this study were better able to grasp the big picture when they heard the text, they could better recall small details when they read it.
     In a real-world classroom setting, reading and listening aren’t entirely separate. When teachers use a song in a lesson, it includes information that overlaps with what’s in the textbook. Sometimes students hear the song, and sometimes they read the text. Lehmann advises to not do both simultaneously, though: “Reading a text and listening to it (in a sung version) at the same time leads to problems integrating them and thereby to cognitive load.” She adds, “such redundancies should be avoided in learning scenarios.”

                       Robots: Learning companions for our children

             When you were a child, did you ever dream of having an imaginary buddy to help you with your schoolwork? What has long been the stuff of science fiction may soon become a reality. With the progress that has been made in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, the idea that every child could have a personal robot tutor is no longer so outlandish, and some schools and countries have already introduced robots into the classroom. What role can AI play in education, and what promises and challenges does it entail? In 1997, when the supercomputer Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a dramatic six-game match, the world suddenly took notice of the existence of artificial intelligence and its potential. Since then, AI has made several spectacular technological leaps. Today’s machines are not only capable of performing billions of operations per second, they are also able to learn. In 2017, it took the computer program Alpha Zero just a few hours of playing thousands of games against itself to reach a level of proficiency no human chess player can match. With the advances they have made over the past 20 years, artificial intelligence and machine learning have begun to permeate nearly every aspect of our everyday lives – and education is no exception. Research in the fields of educational robotics and computerizing is now focusing on building machines that can effectively support learning and teaching – and a great deal has already been accomplished. One of the goals is to create robot tutors that can adapt to each child’s needs. This idea holds great promise. Robot tutors that are capable of learning would allow teaching to become much more personalized, since they can adapt as the child progresses. If pupils struggle with an exercise, the robot can provide extra practice; once they have mastered the material, the robot can move on to more difficult subject matter, in keeping with the principle of scaffold-ed learning. The robot can also adapt its strategies to the needs of children with learning difficulties.


My reflection:
Robot is important to our lives.
They may help us in different ways such as helping in dangerous operations like in police operations were they are the one who is responsible to distinguished a bomb when there are some treats, being a friend at all time to give comfort to us..

The Secret Heart

Across the years he could recall

His father one way best of all

In the stillest hour of night

The boy awakened to a light

Half in dreams, he was his sire

With his great hands full of fire.

The man had struck a match to see

If his son slept peacefully

He held his palm each side the park

His loved had kindle in the dark

His two hands were curved apart

In the semblance of a heart

He wore it seemed to his small son,

A bare heart on his hidden one

A heart that gave out such a glow

No son awake could bare to know

It showed a look upon a face

Too tender for the day to trace

One instant, it lit all about

But shone long enough for one

To know that hands held up the sun