Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

And by everything I mean the start of Innovation Week.

But before I get into that there is the Eco Camp to talk about.

We got to the campground after a traveling for a little more than an hour, being one of the three schools of the system nearest to the mountainside.

From 2 to 6pm was the registration time (one of the participating schools was in Bulacan after all) then there was dinner. Afternoon snacks were served during registration.

Dinner was when we first formed by groups made up of delegates from the different schools, just like in the Road to the Founder’s Centennial celebration at around this same time last year. That is excluding the time when they already had the chant and cheer presentation at the end of the pre-camp a few weeks ago.

One table in the mess hall was assigned to each group.

We had the opening ceremonies in the field in the middle of the tents (there was also one per group, one for the First Aid personnel and an extra one to make it six on each side).

Each school gave a presentation. Then it was time to come up with our painted flag and chant. In the Road to the Founder’s Centennial last year, it was a poster that was supposed to be the output.

Three lecturers from one of the Biology departments gave a presentation on Night Creature Identification, concentrating on Lizards, Frogs, Snakes and Worms, which was followed by a short catching session, because it was already near midnight.

The next day we had a Nature Walk and Bird Watching near and in the Botanical Gardens in the morning.

In the afternoon my co-teachers and I facilitated the three activities the groups were supposed to take part in: survival cooking, rappelling and a first aid seminar.

The last took up two hours, and the first two one hour each. So while five groups took up first aid, two and three groups took up the first two then switched an hour later. Then the ten groups swapped in the middle of the afternoon.

In the evening there was the photo, caption, photo collage, and “story telling” session by school again, and we ended with the group presentations.

On the third day we had the group picture taking, the mass and the presentation of resolutions by each school to the head of the system’s environmental initiative institution.

We got back to the school at the same time as the high school students, who came from their simultaneous camp in Antipolo.

I’ll finish talking about the fourth week of classes next time, including the Innovation Week set-ups. For now, class dismissed.