REACTION PAPER FOR “TELL ME YOUR DREAMS”

Misa, Julmar Joseph B.

LTS (Group 9)

October 12, 2018

Last October 6, 2018, I had the opportunity to view the movie “Tell Me Your Dreams” at
the Luce Auditorium if Silliman University. It was a movie about Ma’am Divina, a teacher who
took the opportunity of teaching in an Aeta Community who are most of the time not afforded
the opportunity to be educated due to their difficultly accessible environment.

“Tell Me Your Dreams” narrates the struggles faced by both students and teachers.For
the students,it was a struiggle of balancing their resources such as financial and time in order to
go to school even with many duties and responsibilities in their home. For the teacher, it was
the struggle to keep going despite hardships in the teaching environment and lack of resources
as long as there is learning implanted into the students. The movie depicts that despite these
struggles, there is always a way for learning when there is a will.

Why do these people value education? For the pupils in the movie, education is a luxury
as a result of their socio-economic status, and as implied by the movie that education can be a
way to escape their cycle of poverty. For example, their parents were not able to go to school
because their families had no resources to send them to school, that is aside from the facts that
they reside in a remote location and that their parents need their children to help them in their
daily chores. In the movie, through education we are able to stop the cycle of self-perpetuation
of poverty, as portrayed by Toto, one of Ma’am Divina’s students who grew up to become a
successful teacher.

We can derive from this that despite education taking up a lot of time, we should
prioritize it and take it seriously for it is a way for us to become better individuals, not only
financially, but wholesomely.
 REACTION PAPER FOR DR. CLEOPE’S MESSAGE

Misa, Julmar Joseph B.

LTS (Group 9)

October 12, 2018

“Where the land divides, the sea unites,” last October 6, 2018 at the Audio-Visual
Theater, the LTS cadets had the privilege hearing from Dr. Earl Jude Paul L. Cleope about his
book on the history of the Visayas islands. It was an informative talk on the importance of the
Visayas history to our national identity.

Dr. Cleope emphasized the importance of the role of the Visayan history in shaping our
country. Usually, when we talk about Philippine history, it is actually history that simply
revolves around the happenings in Luzon. Dr. Cleope addressed this disparity to the LTS
Cadets by talking about how our ancestors overcame the challenges that they faced at that time
and on how they celebrated the blessings that they were able to enjoy. He also talked about how
the names of the islands that comprise Visayas came to be and that despite the separation we
were able to form unity.

His talk made us appreciate more our identities as “Bisaya” in addition to our
surroundings. From his talk, we learned that Negros and Dumaguete with how it is today did
not happen overnight. It was brought by many changes in people’s ideas that made it what it is
today. This makes us value even the little things that we might think as not important such as
the names of the islands that when we explored, reveals so much of its beautiful history and
not just any arbitrary word.

Finally, knowledge of our local history allows us to see the beauty of the Philippines in a
different light. Now, we appreciate Philippines not only based on the history that has been
shoved to us by our history books over and over again but also based on how we communicate,
eat, and do simple tasks every day.