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Discovering Bohol and Dumaguete

Jean Wang, The Blue Flame, Editor-in-Chief
Posted: Thursday May 31, 2007 02:59 PM

Years III and IV students from the Environmental Education (EE) elective of the High School Unit visited Bohol and Dumaguete last February 10-13, 2007.  Leaving Manila via Cebu Pacific, fifty-one (51) students, accompanied by their teachers, spent 4 days and 3 nights away from the hustle and bustle of the city.  During the first two days of the trip, the group visited Chocolate Hills and awed by its natural beauty; trekked Blood Compact Shrine; and observed Bohol Bee Farm operations.  Students got excited with their close encounter with famous Bohol creature, the tarsier when they visited its protected area along Loboc River.   They learned how these nocturnal primates, fully grown at 6 inches, are unique in terms of their body structure, mating habits (tarsiers mate for only 3 seconds according to a worker in the Bohol Bee Farm), and suicidal tendencies. 

The politically-rich scenarios of the bees’ day-to-day lives were also introduced to the students and teachers at the Bohol Bee Farm owned by Ms. Vicky Wallace.  One of the workers mentioned that bees embody women power because in a colony of bees, only 10 percent is male and the rest of the population is female.  The females are the worker bees while the males exist only for mating purposes. 

The last two days of the trip were spent in the “City of the Gentle People”, Dumaguete.  The tourists visited the historical and the first Christian University, Siliman University, Rizal Boulevard and Forest Camp.  

The elective’s main objective is to hone the students’ social awareness, responsibility and knowledge through exposure to places significant to the Philippines’ history, religion, culture and environment. 

The students and teachers were accommodated at the Dumaluan Beach Resort during their stay in Bohol and at the Bethel Guesthouse in Dumaguete. 

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