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NSTP-LTS benefited me in many ways and I will list it down in the later part but before that, I want to define first what NSTP-LTS is from what I have learned in module 1.

What is NSTP-LTS?

The National Service Training Program or NSTP is a program established to promote patriotism among the Filipino Youth. This program aimed at enhancing the civic consciousness and preparedness program to the youth by developing the ethics of service and patriotism while undergoing training in any of its three program components. The Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS), and the Literacy Training Service (LTS).

As a pre-service teacher, I am taking the Literacy Training Service program or LTS. LTS is one of the program components of NSTP that focuses on training students with skills and potentials in teaching literacy and numeracy. It aims to strengthen the knowledge, skills, and values of the future educators to be used not only in the field of teaching, but also in volunteering to teach literacy and numeracy to young ones, out-of-school-youth and indigenous children.

The benefit of NSTP-LTS to me as a student is that it gives me knowledge not only about the course subject matter, but also more things about volunteerism and serving the country. Aside from that, I can feel that this program will truly help in enhancing my skills and developing my potentials as an aspiring teacher. The program was established to train the youth for defense and preparedness to serve the country in times of disaster or calamity, but the one who will benefit the most in this program are the student and youth like me who will be receiving the training to become one of those the country will need. I am grateful to the things I have learned and will be learning in this program.

Furthermore, I list the other benefits of NSTP-LTS to me as a student and these are the following:

• Become knowledgeable about the purpose of NSTP-LTS to the Filipino youth
• NSTP-LTS will help enhance my skills in basic leadership. Since most students taking NSTP-LTS are future educators we are trained to enhance our basic leadership so as to prepare for the future because I am not only going to teach inside the classroom but also to help, volunteer and lead in the country in times of need.
• Develop my skills and potentials to teach literacy and numeracy among the other youth, especially to the Badjao children of Puerto Princesa.
• Unlock new sets of skills and abilities in teaching
• Experience real-time teaching to the Filipino Youth by the next semester
• Explore the duty of serving and volunteering for the country

And many more…

I can’t count on how NSTP-LTS benefit me as a student, but as for now I am really grateful to be a Filipino Youth.

Studying is never been easy for most of my subjects, aside from learning you have to accomplish everything in order to passed the course. But, this course taught me that every activities does not mean you have to stress-out yourself to finish it (well, honestly we are a little bit stress), yet I see this activities adds up to the fun we experience throughout the semester.

What are your challenges in this course?

Well, we have been in to seminar-workshop before but I never imagine myself being one of the organizers of the seminar-workshop we conducted. The challenge is that in organizing this kind of event, we need to be more patient and careful and also as a group we should work as one in order to achieve things great and in place. Another is the lesson plan making where I don’t have any tiny bit of idea how am I suppose to do that, so when I finally meet the lesson plan outline I really ask myself, “What is that?” like it is so new to me, the fact that I am gonna be teacher someday.

How did you overcome those challenges?

One tip to survive all this things and to overcome this challenges pretty well is that you have to enjoy every bits of moment doing it. Things are easier when you are having fun, you won’t notice you’re done because you are having a good time. Just like when we are doing our seminar-workshop program. Preparations of before is nothing after we taste the success of our first seminar-workshop. And I’m happy because every one of us is happy. I learned that to overcome those challenges is always think positive and enjoy the challenges, not having fun has nothing to do with what are you doing yet it only make things worst.

Experiencing and achieving these things would not be made possible if it is not because of our Professor who facilitate, guide us and gives us the reason to enjoy every activities she prepared for us. She makes us realized that enjoying in what you are doing is the key to achieve what you wanted to reach.

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          Media is as popular as it made people, events, and all other entities itself. It rings anywhere and make trends itself and make impacts to the humanity bigger than it seemed, in fact it is a giant that is composed of different patterns and mechanics that made it less likely as one. It could be in paper form, in a TV screen, in a billboard, or a man speaking inside a radio machine.

          All of them formed as one and is made to be one, directed to affect our lives, from infants ‘till no more. But not just that, humans will be far more selfish to think that they are the only one who is, plants and animals too.

As a millennial myself, I can always tell every day of my existence that I am a media driven, a user, a victim, a host, and a parasite as well. Ironically, I can be both of these at the same time. I could be a victim from using so much devices that it cost me my health while I’m ruining someone else’s image in the media highway. Pretty cool isn’t it? That is how monstrous it could be, this media. Not all that, we made devices in order to operate therefore we hoard resources, some replaceable, some not. We made loud noises around the world, making noise pollution, killing and implicitly invading habitats of other living creatures. Such beauty it creates to our society, however, I am using media as I write this down, would that make it a less cruel and destructive?

I tend to understand day by day that humans are lost creatures, succumb to its power to think, thus, creates, build and build till it satisfy its ego, the thing is they can never be satisfied. Media were created for this purpose and it affects us, more than we can ever think. Lately, here in the Philippines we heard rumors of children dying because of an app, with the character Momo, it seeps to our lives subtly and we all are victims and yet predators. We must understand, as a cliché goes “anything that is too much is bad”, we lessen our media use, we conserve our time, we can give more love to people who are in a measure of a distance is closer to us and not inside of our screens. We less our using hours we add to our living days, and we saved someone else’s face out of humiliation. We use wisely so we can live meaningfully.

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton