2/20/2007

Kinda Culture Shock

In my first day in Lapangon Village was so very hard because I don't know how to communicate and understand the language of the people.What I did was to write all the easy word like greetings,goodmorning,goodafternoon and many more.So, I can communicate them and know them better.Everyday I learn 10 words in manobo or native language.There were times I visited people in the village of Lapangon Literacy school.Then one women greeting me in there language as what I've understand she said good morning but when so I say good morning in their language but she was laughing at me.I asked my partner Jecily who is ahead of me for 1 month if what that mean and she said,women asked what's your name?But you answer to her goodmorning hehehe..I just smile and said better next time hahaha...It was not easy to learn other dialect.
After 3 months of staying in the village I learned to love the people and want to live with them.I applied Sulads and signed only 1 year but in my mind I wanna live with the people in the mountain as long as I live.I want to stay with them forever thats what I felt before.Everytime we had reporting one's in 2 month I don't like to go down and wanna live with the people in the mountain.I like to play the dirty children,visited old women who was sick,going with the manobo children when they were out to gather sweet potatoes for their food.I'm happy to be with them and carry also my own basket on my head.I didn't notice that I'm like them in smell...We ate same food,same kind of hat,place,speak same language.Maybe because of constant beholding I'm became like them.
One day,me and my partner Jecily ask me to go down for reporting.She want me to go down to report the improvement of the people and also the lacking materials of our new school building.I felt very tired to go down but because it's my turn to go so I go.I saw my para-teacher in our reporting.I'm very happy that day seeing my friends in Mountain View College.I found out that I was kinda culture shocked.I'm thankful to God for he always protecting me.Why I can say that I'm was culture shock its because I don't like to go down and I wanna live with the people in the village.When I saw the Monobos they were more beautiful each day.But when I go down to MVC I saw my friends that they were more beautiful than them.So, I conclude that I'm culture shocked that time.To be edited....