Showing posts with label OJT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OJT. Show all posts

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Mineralogist Kuno...



Once they have learned that they would be out for a while because the manager sent them to another area for community relations, Ms. Abby and Ms. Mitch, my bosses, asked me to teach some Mining Engineers from a university in Baguio some geology stuff.

So there we went to the rock library and I introduced to them the basic minerals found here in Mankayan District. I also shared to them the techniques on identifying these minerals and rocks. After that, I gave them an exam to test if they were really listening to me. 

They have got high scores though. I was happy about that.I tried my best to speak in Tagalog while using English as the medium of instruction. So bali, taglish ang ginamit ko kahapon. Haha. Para daw akong E-boy magsalita ng tagalog. Ano ang e-boy?

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

A Time To Think...


With the gradual shining of the sun, a quarter before six o' clock in the morning, along with the cry of the rooster who had to enjoy itself sleeping at a bough of a tree whose moistened leaves of green covered the wondrous earthly creations from the windowpanes of the second storey of this apartment, I stood up from a deep slumber. I took my gray jacket which was hung just right above my head and threw it in.

It was a cold morning, just like the usual mornings ever since the first morning I woke up here in this far-flung area. I can not describe how cold it is here. All I know is that I need to wear a jacket all the time, whether at home or at work.

Tall trees hover the mountains, green plants flourish the hillsides, and rivers flow slowly at shallow depth. The locals are nice and friendly. The workplace, however, can be distinguished into two. First, the geology office here is nice and cool. I have got a computer to use whenever I want to. Secondly, the underground tunnel of which I fear the most, is dark, hot and low in oxygen. Just like a man who is buried six feet from the ground.

Of course, I look cool with all the helmet, boots, head flashlights and all the miner's gears on. At first, I did not enjoy the all day walking inside that tunnel. With the eerie silence, and the rats around, I have become immune to the words ýuck and ewww.

This is the real life. This is the real work. I don't encounter immature brats. This is an office. I am taught with new things, and at the same time given the chance to teach my fellow learners. I don't encounter selfish beings. People here are audacious but possess great intellect. I work professionally with others. I respect them, and at the same time, I gain some in return.

I was right all along. My personality is well-suited to a professional environment. I was meant for bigger things. I am hoping that when the school year commences, people there in the publication office are changed beings, not a bunch of clowns.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

So There I went to Far South-East




"Fortune favors the Audacious" Desiderius Erasmus


A liter of light is at the other end of the tunnel. I’m not really sure with that ‘hope of light’ for no one knows the location of the other end of the tunnel that I was walking through for the last three days. I had to walk braided tunnels below 450 meters from the ground, 700 meters above sea level. But light should be yellow or something closer to the color of the sun.



You see, I’m here in the Far South-Eastern part of the country Philippines, about a few tens of kilometers from Baguio City, the summer capital of the Philippines. However, it’s just that I’m not having a good time here simply because I’m not having some goody-goody vacation in this far-flung area where most of the ethnic and primitive people reside. I’m kinda working here, well, sort of. It’s my OJT actually (On the Job Training). This is also the reason why I was not able to post entries here lately.



So, there you go. I’m at the office right now. Two female Junior Geologists here allowed me to use this computer with, at last, internet connection. I’ll post something good here tomorrow Sunday. With pictures of me and the miners? YES. Bye. Have a good day.