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The Organic Arabica Coffee Project is being headed by Prof Valentino Macanes. He is also the Director of the Institute of Highland Farming Systems and Agroforestry (IHFSA), that spearheads the development, dissemination and utilization of agroforestry, sericulture, and other farming systems technologies for highland farmers.

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The Environmental Network of the Philippines, Inc. (EENP) hosted the International Conference on Environmental Education at the Banaue Hotel in Banaue, Ifugao last May 4-7, 2008. It was attended by SUCs, LGUs, NGOs, Pos and Government Line Agencies throughout the country and by foreign delegates from the US Department of Agriculture and Duke University, Myanmar, Cambodia, Korea, Japan, Pakistan and Europe.

                There were a total of 40 papers for oral presentation and 43 scientific poster entries, of which the BSU poster presented by Prof. Valentino L. Macanes entitled “The Arabica Coffee-Pine Based Agroforestry System: A Technology for Watershed Conservation and People’s Livelihood Developed by the Benguet State University”, won the BEST Scientific Poster.

                According to Prof. Macanes, the notable accomplishment of the congress was the passing of an EENP Board Resolution to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for the adoption of the Dark Green School Initiative of the EENP by the SUCs. If it is adopted, it will be used for accreditation of SUCs, especially those offering the Forestry and Environment Courses. Commissioner Saturnieno M. Ocampo Jr. promised to study and sponsor the resolution.

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So  you want to buy BSU’s arabica coffee?

You can buy the coffee that the BSU Marketing Center. Take a jeepney ride to La Trinidad at the Magsaysay or City Hall (Baguio) and tell the driver to drop you at the BSU 2nd gate (you will see the Epiphany Church across the gate). And to save you time, you can call the Marketing Center at (074) 422-4650 and check for its availability because of its popular demand… it does not stay long in the shelves.

Well now, the grass is being processed to tea— LEMON GRASS TEA. It tastes really good than those commercialized tea in tea bags. Benguet State University—Bokod Campus, process lemon grass into tea and soap. And they have to grow lemon grass because the demand for their tea is high.

(Maybe you will be looking for lemon grass when you get to areas near BSU-Bokod and you will not see any because it has been processed already.)

When I was little, I wanted what many Filipino children all over the country wanted. I wanted to be blond, blue-eyed, and white.

I thought — if I just wished hard enough and was good enough, I’d wake upon Christmas morning with snow outside my window and freckles across my nose!

More than four centuries under western domination does that to you. I have sixteen cousins. In a couple of years, there will just be five of us left in the Philippines, the rest will have gone abroad in search of “greener pastures.” It’s not just an anomaly; it’s a trend; the Filipino diaspora. Today, about eight million Filipinos are scattered around the world.

There are t hose who disapprove of Filipinos who choose to leave. I used to. Maybe this is a natural reaction of someone who was left behind, smiling for family pictures that get emptier with each succeeding year. Desertion, I called it. My country is a land that has perpetually fought for the freedom to be itself. Our heroes offered their lives in the struggle against the Spanish, the Japanese, the Americans. To pack up and deny that identity is tantamount to spitting on that sacrifice.

Or is it? I don’t think so, not anymore. True, there is no denying this phenomenon, aided by the fact that what was once the other side of the world is now a twelve-hour plane ride away. But this is a borderless world, where no individual can claim to be purely from where he is now. My mother is of Chinese descent, my father is a quarter Spanish, and I call myself a pure Filipino-a hybrid of sorts resulting from a combination of cultures.

Each square mile anywhere in the world is made up of peopl e of different ethnicities, with national identities and individual personalities. because of this, each square mile is already a microcosm of the world. In as much as this blessed spot that is England is the world, so is my neighborhood back home.

Seen this way! , the Filipino Diaspora, or any sort of dispersal of populations, is not as ominous as so many claim. It must be understood. I come from a Third World country, one that is still trying mightily to get back on its feet after many years of dictatorship. But we shall make it, given more time. Especially now, when we have thousands of eager young minds who graduate from college every year. They have skills. They need jobs. We cannot absorb them all.

A borderless world presents a bigger opportunity, yet one that is not so much abandonment but an extension of identity . Even as we take, we give back. We are the 40,000 skilled nurses who support the UK’s National Health Service. We are the quarter-of-a- million seafarers manning most of the world’s commercial ships. We are your software engineers in Ireland, your construction workers in the Middle East, your doctors and caregivers in North America, and, your musical artists in London’s West End.

Nationalism isn’t bound by time or place. People from other nations migrate to create new nations, yet still remain essentially who they are. British society is itself an example of a multi-cultural nation, a melting pot of races, religions, arts and cultures. We are, indeed, in a borderless world!

Leaving sometimes isn’t a matter of choice. It’s coming back that is. The Hobbits of the shire travelled all over Middle-Earth, but they chose to come home, richer in every sense of the word. We call people like these balikbayans or the ‘returnees’ — those who followed their dream, yet choose to return and share their mature talents and good fortune.

In a few years, I may take advantage of whatever opportunities come my way. But I will come home. A borderless world doesn’t preclude the idea of a home. I’m a Filipino, and I’ll always be one. It isn’t about just geography; it isn’t about boundaries. It’s about giving back to the country that shaped me.

And that’s going to be more important to me than seeing snow outside my windows on a bright Christmas morning..

Mabuhay and Thank you.

Becoming an “Iskolar ng Bayan” is really an honor and a privilege that is why those who are able to enroll at UP should do their best too. Students who enroll in other state universities like the Benguet State University are also considered “Iskolar ng Bayan” since their tuition fees are subsidized.

Most students from other state universities think that only UP students are considered “Iskolars ng Bayan”, but then they are too. They are being offered low tuition fees, lower than UP tuition fees, because fees are subsidized by the government.

To learn about the UPCAT results for 2008, please click here.

This flash training  is part of a series of training being given to four State Universities who will be developing CD-ROM based learning materials for the “eSkwela”.

I finally decided to stick to being an Instructional Designer and Storyboard Writer not a Developer for flash learning materials. At least, learning about the different capabilities and possibilities one can do with flash can help me in designing interactive instructional materials with our flash developers.

Creating instructional materials is really fun. I get to know colleagues from other State Universities. We are able to network and be friends with them. We work as a team, helping each other understand different concepts of instruction for IT, pedagogy and andragogy.

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The meeting started past 10:00 AM, Commissioner Medrano gave a presentation about the present situation of education in the Philippines, followed by a presentation about the Presidential Commission on Education by Usec. Mona Valisno.

They discussed how they can further improve and address concerns about education in our country. SUC concerns and issues was presented by Dr. Ngohayon, President of the Ifugao State College of Agriculture and Forestry, while HEI concerns was presented by Dr. Buzar, President of the University of the Cordilleras, and Mr. Galimba, Vice President for Academic Affairs of the University of Baguio.

President Arroyo listened to the concerns and suggested to have the Education Congress by the end of this month instead of May. Everybody agreed to have the Congress as early as January to be able to address the concerns that they discussed about.

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The meeting ended just before lunch time. I took pictures of President GMA with our university president— it turned out to be a group picture since almost everybody joined the pose to be included in the picture.

I shook hand with President GMA and greeted her “Happy New Year po”. She smiled at everybody and even had picture taking with individuals who had camera phones.

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