The Student Exchange Program Experience

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Have you ever met people that shared with you the happiest ant most memorable activities even for a short period of time?

Last November, we had our Student Exchange Program together with the Malaysians from Sekolah Menegah Sains Tuadku Syed Putra held at YDC Pasig. There were about 16 students from Malaysia who are also studying Nihongo. We were only given three days to meet them, on the first day we had our visitors session which the students from IV-Joule and III-Kelvin had their individual chances to interact with them. After that session we had our cultural folk dance performance both from Philippines and Malaysia.

The next days, there we gained friendship with each other we are now comfortable to talk to each other, share our thoughts and took pictures together. We also played jackstones and calamansi relay. We really had great fun that time especially when we were explaining the whole rules of the game to one of our Malaysian friends and then suddenly he asked me if I can just explain it to him in Tagalog.

We were all like "SERIOUSLY!" we got shocked literally 'nganga' Because we really thought that he can't understand Tagalog but then again we're wrong. After that scenario we even got more close to each other. Days had passed and I realized that we have similarities in terms of words, expressions, food and someone in attitude. All of them are really friendly.

They got a chance to throw jokes on us as well. Talk to us like we have been friends for a long time and laugh like there's no tomorrow. At first i regret joining the S.E.P. because it came to my mind that I might miss lots of our lessons, quizzes and recitations. That I might just waste my time. But then I realized that I was wrong. It’s not wasting time because we’re enjoying it. It just means that I am making memories.

Memories that are only the happy, the good, the fun and the crazy us. The deepest memories that are stored in our hearts. It may fade but it will never be erased.

Contibuted by: Victoria Louisse Sabino and Valerie Llabore from III-Kelvin

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