Local cooks, barangays recognized in San Carlos
Quality Education, What We’re Missing
We often ask these days, when will these cycles of pandemic end? Or will there be an ending to these unusual days?
We are led to an impossibility to knowing when will these testings come to pass. Leading us to believe that unless some divine intervention may impede the growth and survival of these strains of viruses, we may know no end. The government has done every possible means to send its people afloat, to rise from the dreadful recessions of these corruptible plague, but no matter how and what the government has done, still, there’s an increase in the number of people contacting COVID-19.
From a teacher’s point of view, I for one was and is also affected of the continuing pandemic, that the way I used to deliver quality education was hampered. It was all too well when I used to teach face-to-face, individual instructions where my students learn in an inclusive manner. Every questions raised were like flaming arrows that heeds answers, and answers were like fast trains that delivers well. I used to have good times with my students between breaks and activities where we happily talk about life and experiences. We all used to teach efficiently, well-mannered, where a life in weekdays are much more fun than weekends.
However, things changed. The coronavirus disease decapitated our ways of getting in touch with the reality we used to grasp. Days were like silenced lambs waiting for another blow to the nape, asking, who’s next? Chalkboards and armchairs looked like playing fences for ghosts, and teacher’s tables were like boxes of indexes with lists of invisible students. Stuffs, you know - canteen’s empty, playing field’s untouched, broken hallways, and even hollowed mess halls – were terribly missed. Days, weeks, months to years passed and we’re still in the trouble of this pandemic.
I ask, is there still hope that we can make quality education accessible, once again? Can we arrive to such focal where parents no longer go to school to get their children’s learning modules, bring it home, and have it answered unguided? Is hope still bright?
With me, you, and the community, we can – astoundingly there’s hope! Hope in the cause that education knows no bounds. With our willingness to help one another, impossibility is just a meaningless word. Let’s answer to the call of heeding the fight against COVID-19, take part, get vaccinated, enroll, and don’t stop learning. Quality education is at hand.
The City Tourism Office (CTO) of San Carlos City government gave credit to local chefs and barangays for participating in the Food Mapping and Local Cuisine Inventory during the Filipino Food Month Celebration last month.
The cooks and barangay representatives received their certificates on Tuesday, May 17, at the SP Session Hall.
Shane Gabriel Cristuta, Food Mapping Focal Person of CTO, shared that the food mapping activity was one of the stepping stones in improving the city’s tourism products.
She added that said activity also aimed at supporting the Department of Tourism Region VI’s Slow Food Travel Project that promotes a sustainable model of tourism through the development of connections among farmers, fisher folks, cooperatives, and businesses while raising awareness among visitors about the importance of preserving the traditional food and biodiversity.
Cristuta added that their office also planned on improving the Tourism Circuits for visitors to have unique experiences by incorporating local food as one of its drivers and as additional attraction for the upcoming charter day celebration where another festive activity relating to food will be featured.