As I promised in my last blog, this will be very brief! On the first day at my work, I had a tour around the centre and was told information about the centre, which you can read in my last blog- which is very long! Apologies to those who ought it was boring!
Anyways! We work from Tuesday to Friday as on Mondays we have our team meetings!
Tuesday 23rd September- I arrived late because I have to get two jeepneys to work and they take FOOOOREVEEERRRR! Florita asked us to write a 'bio data' which is like a CV for her, so she could put opus into certain workshops and to give us schedule. But she wanted us to have our picture taken first for the bio data (I have no idea why). So we had our picture taken, in which I look terrible! And waited for Florita to give us some kind of form to fill in. Because I thought there were such things as bio data forms, I don't know how I got this idea. But anyways, as we waited for AGES! From about 10am to 12pm, we waited we then had our lunch at 12pm. At 1pm, I asked Florita, if she was going to give us something to write on- miscommunication alert- "where's your bio data? Write your bio data" Florita said back to me, not answering my question. I then realised she wasn't going to give USA nothing to write on. She expected us to just write on some paper. I went back to the room and informed the others of this and we wrote our bio data down.
We gave our "CVs" to her and waited until about 5pm. She then gave us this paper thingy where we check in and out of work, like the old times. I got very excited about this, lame I know, but I don't care. I checked out at 5.04pm.
Wednesday 24th September- I arrived at 09.14am, late again, but like I said earlier, it takes forever to my work placement, and I did try waking up early, but I hate waking up too early..... :-D Florita took us to the conference room and placed us in certain work stations.
Jennylyn-
Commercial Cooking
Dress and Apparel
Miguel-
Housekeeping
Basic Cosmetology
Joe-
Computer Technology
Consumer Electronics
Furniture and Cabinet Making
Me-
Office work, yes, office work. I got this because of my 'experience and education'. I'm not going to lie, at first, I was a bit gutted with this, but then got a wee bit excited at the idea of working with psychologist and social workers etc.
So I started straightaway into the office with no work to do. I asked around for work and there easy nothing for me to do. The lady in the same office as me, gave me two books about AVRC and said to me 'read this so you can know more about the centre'. I politely took the book and proceeded to read, but knew it all due to last Friday's pre-orientation about the centre. But I found this interesting information-
"In the Philippines- the National Statistics Office reported that 1.23% of the 76.5 million Filipinos are categorised as persons with disability (PWDs) or these persons with physical, mental, sensory and other form of impairment."
I got frustrated at doing nothing and told the lady that I already know about the centre and if there was anything else I can do. She looked like she felt a bit bad, and said 'oh yes, can you please help me by gluing the envelope so I can post the invitations?'
This wasn't anything of me working with the Deaf or helping the Deaf community, but it was better than doing nothing. So I spent my morning and a bit after lunch gluing. The lady told me that there will be a lady who is going to give me work. But this didn't happen.
I got annoyed and joined Joe who had to print 120 leaflets for the 40th year anniversary of AVRC - Foundation Day. I wandered around most of the day and went home at 04.05pm.
Thursday 25th September- I'll summarise my morning- I basically did nothing. After lunch, I taught the Deaf trainees some multiplications and divisions, we played some games as well. I really enjoyed this session and it lasted from 1pm-4pm. I found this task a bit challenging as there were different levels of knowledge of the subject.
One of the girls asked if I wanted my nails done, and I felt bad if I said no, so I let her to do what she was good at.
We spent the last half hour talking about my family being a Deaf. The trainees were so shocked and wanted some kind of answer to why we are Deaf. I tried to explain that we were just born Deaf. They replied with some sort of 'was it because you were sick? Maybe your mum took a wrong medication? Were you born in a hospital? Maybe the doctor did something to you?'
I then found out that every single Filipinos became deaf because one of the following reasons- sickness, the mother took some wrong medication, wasn't born in a hospital or the doctor did something wrong to them.
I was amazed at this and remembered that something very similar happened in the UK, a long time ago, before it wasn't a shame to be Deaf. I felt like telling them that it may all be lies and they were actually just born Deaf.
One girl asked 'how come your parents only had girls? Not boys?' I didn't know how to answer this!! Haha!
I checked out at 04.09pm.
Friday 26th September- I arrived at 09.32am, because my schedule has changed from 9am-5pm to 10am-4pm because the journey was far too long. I was assigned to write an excel form of the delivery that came in the morning. I was slightly pissed at this because once again, it has nothing to do with my coming to the Philippines. But I did it anyways because there were nothing else to do! I was then told to scan some letters and email it.
My next task was to write the name of the folders in the filing cabinets. I got up to fifty and lost it, I wrote to Flortia complaint about how I have been here over a week and hasn't been given a schedule other than to teach the staff Filipino sign Language on Tuesdays from 4pm-5pm and to teach work ethics to the Deaf trainees on Thursdays from 1pm-4pm. I also told her that I came here to help the Deaf community and the work she has given me was not relevant at all.
She told me to wait and go to cosmetology, where I had a facial from one of the trainees. I felt really guilty because I didn't come here to get treatments, I came to help! (I was asked to be given the facial by the way).
I got sick of observing, getting treatments and doing nothing so I went home at 03.23pm.
Bye! :)
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