Unfamiliar Community Barangay 74-A

It was nice to be able to go to a different place. It was a good experience to be able to visit an unfamiliar community. The place we went to was Barangay 74-A located at Matina Crossing. It was the first field trip of the second semester and I was quite amused. Surveying the community area was the first thing we did. The area was much cleaner compared to other communities that I visited before, despite the dirt path was a little bit muddy because it was rainy week, I can still appreciate how the community kept their area with less garbage on the pathway. The following week, we went back to the same area and interviewed some of the people who live there as we were told to do so. Most people near the entrance were already interviewed so we had to go deeper in the community. I noticed that most of the people were busy doing their daily chores - mostly swiping the ground using "walis-tambo", and doing the laundry using their hands. It was hard to find a person then that was not busy. When I found a person to interview, I felt quite awkward approaching her since she was busy with her laundry. It was quite hard to ask questions since the interviewee was not really paying much attention; still I continued to interview her and received short answers from her. I learned some few things about their community, how they survive in their everyday living. I realized that I am blessed and thankful to my Creator that I am not experiencing the things they are in, like not enough medicine when they are sick or not enough money to see a doctor when they need one.

After a few weeks, we went back to Barangay 74-A. In their barangay hall, we were taught about first aid by their volunteers. The training we underwent was like a crash course, the training that needs to be taught for 3 days was taught to us in just 3 hours. I had Red Cross training before so the training we did somehow just serve as a refresher course and my memory about first aid came back. The class officers planned to buy headlights as a donation to the barangay, the whole class raised an amount of money to buy the item. March 8, 2013 was our final visit to the barangay. It was the day we gave our donation. The experienced was unforgettable; NSTP was the subject that woke me up to appreciate the life I have.