On 5 Days ALS Seminar (flashback)

*August 2006 *

This is the first educators seminar on Alternative Learning System. This was attended by the MLC team together with the community facilitators conducted by the ALS Department of Education heads.

Got a very funny experience here. I got lost the first day of the seminar. The team agreed to meet in front of the main office (which was in Mola before) at exactly 6 in the morning but I was not able to meet them because I lived far. I told them I would not make it to Mola so they proceeded to the venue. I took a bus from C5 Taguig and told the driver to stop me somewhere in Cubao just near Quezon Ave. The driver forgot so he dropped me to a street which was already far from Quezon Ave. I didn’t know where I was. I asked the policeman who was just standing to a nearby post but showed me another way. I took a cab then and told the driver the address of the venue. He said he knew it but as we traveled he kept on asking me the direction. I noticed he was just pretending so I told him to better stop the taxi. I was already late. The team was already in the venue and the seminar was about to start. They called me to ask where I was. I told them I was somewhere in EDSA near Robinson Mall then suddenly I heard different reactions from the team like “What?! Why are you there?” and so on and so forth. I didn’t know they had a Manila map with them. They spread the map on the table and everybody tried to locate the street where I was. They instructed me to ride and to stop to a certain landmark. I took a cab again and I was able to reach my destination.

When I arrived at the venue, of course the seminar already started, I was damned ashamed because I was late. It was the first day pa! Anyway, I was just new in the city and I didn’t know the places.