Business and Enterprise

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post. For the past 4 weeks, we have been learning about business and enterprise and working towards making a profit on market day. We had a total of 4 weeks to prepare and learn about how to handle a business, make a profit and create sales. On Wednesday the 23rd of September, we had our official market day, where people from the community and other schools bought goods and services from our business. The next day, 24th September, we were given a task where we had to create a blog post about business, enterprise, and market day. For market day my group created Filipino delicacies, Coffee Jelly and Leche Flan. 

Business and Enterprise

Week 1: During the first week of Business and Enterprise, we were introduced to the topic and guest speakers told us about their business, how they work and how they managed to to get to where they are now. During our Wananga class, we learned more about the topic and got to create our groups. We only were allowed to have 4 people in our group and they each had a role. The CEO (Chief Executive Officer), Marketing Manager, Production Manager and Sales/Finance Manager. 

Week 2: During the second week we started on our business plans, and another round of guest speakers were introduced to us. Our group was split up and we were allocated a place where a guest speaker would talk about our role in the business. I was CEO so I had to be in a group with all the CEOs. We also started our Financial Report. We also did our letter of application to give to our teacher so that they can accept our company. 

Week 3: We started our poster for the front of our stall, we then started or marketing, like creating our logos, a slide presentation to be shown to the school and the community and lastly a poster for our stall. We did that for the rest of the week since our topic was food and our production starts on the fourth week. 

Week 4: Week 4 was the week of the market day, so we only had 2 days to fully create both of our products. On Monday we created our Jelly for our Coffee Jelly and on Tuesday we completed making the Leche Flan and Coffee Jelly. Then on Wednesday 23rd September, we had our Market day. 

Market Day

On the morning of the market day we all were busy trying to create our foods and set up our stalls outside this was between 8:40 to 9:30. At 10 we took out our products and displayed them on our table. Market Day officially started at 10:30 am, our stall had many people that bought coffee jelly and we had sold out of it really early, and near the middle of the market day we sold out our flans and people bought 2 flans with meringue for $2.00, which I thought was a very good deal. We also had a dj during market day, which I thought was very convenient. 

FIlipino Cultural Week: Day 2 - Filipino Games

Hello everyone! Welcome to another post, on Tuesday, it was day 2 of the cultural week. In that day we did some Filipino games. We played 3 games, Tumbang Preso, Chinese Garter and Patintero. Here are the rules and how to play each game.

Tumbang Preso:

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In English 'Knock down the Prisoner', also known as Tumbang Lata 'Knock down the can' or Bato Lata 'Hit the can with a stone'. It is a traditional Filipino children's game, where you get shoes or slipper and try to knock the can down. There is a person that is 'it' and but to decide which person is 'it' the people need to throw there slipper or shoes. The one which is the furthest is the person that is it.

So what the other people are supposed to do is simply knock down the can. When you throw the slipper/shoes you need to quickly retrieve before the tagger/it tag's you. But if you cannot retrieve the slipper, another person will help retrieve it by throwing the slipper. As for the tagger/it, if a slipper lands close to the can, they have to put one of their foot on the can and the other on the slipper near the can. If you get tagged by the tagger/it you will become the new tagger.

Chinese Garter:

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As you can see from the title it says Chinese, but this isn't from China. Chinese Garter is a Philippine traditional game. In this game, you will need to be flexible and you need to be able to jump quite high. So the first thing is we need to have garter or a string, you will need one or you can get one whole string and connect it together to get two strings.

The objective of the game is to crosswise over the garter without being tripped. The Chinese Garter is generally subdivided into ten levels.

Level 1: The garter is near the ground.
Level 2: Knee High
Level 3: Around the height of the hips
Level 4: Waist High
Level 5: Chest High
Level 6: Shoulder High
Level 7: Head High
Level 8: At the tip of the head
Level 9: A couple centimetres over the head.
Level 10: Also known as the mother/father jump, as high as a child raising his/her arms high on tippy toes.

Patintero:

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Patintero is played on a rectangular grid drawn into the ground. The rectangle is usually 5 to 6 m (16 to 20 ft) in length, and 4 m (13 ft) wide. It is subdivided into four to six equal parts by drawing a central lengthwise line and then one or two crosswise lines. The size of the rectangle and the number of subdivisions can be adjusted based on the number of players. The individual squares in the grid must be large enough that someone can stay in the middle out of reach of someone standing on the lines.

Now you need a few taggers that will go in the line, they cannot move from the line, they can only move sideways. The objective of the game is to run back and forth in the rectangle without getting tagged. 

Filipino Cultural Week: Day 1 - Filipino Greetings

Hello everyone! Welcome to another post, today I will be sharing with you what we did on day 1. So yesterday (Monday), we taught people how to greet people in Filipino. So the first we learned was how to say hello.

English	Tagalog
Hi/How are you?	Kumusta (po) - Polite Way (Ka-mus-ta)
Good morning	Magandang Umaga (Ma-gan-dang-U-ma-ga)
Good afternoon	Magandang Hapon (Ma-gan-dang-Ha-pon)
Goodnight	Magandang Gabi (Ma-gan-dang-Ga-bi)
Thank you	Salamat (po) - Polite way (Sa-la-mat)
You're Welcome	Walang Anuman (Wa-lang-A-nu-man)

Here's a little chart of what we taught, hope you learned something! That is all for now!

Filipino Cultural Week!

Hello lovely people! Welcome to another post, today we are celebrating the Filipino cultural week! This week will be full of joy and happiness.  In this week we will be hosting games, learning a few words
and performing, this is to celebrate the Filipino Independence day.

If you don't know Philippine Independence day is a day where we celebrate our declaration of independence from Spain. All this happened on June 12, 1898.

Some history........

Philippine Independence day is a day of war and love varied through the nation's history. The earliest recorded was when Andres Bonifacio, along with Emilio Jacinto,  Restituto Javier, Guillermo Masangkay, Aurelio Tolentino, Faustino Manalak, Pedro Zabala and a few other Katipuneros went to the Pamitinan Cave in Montalban, Rizal to initiate new members of the Katipunan.

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'Bonifacio wrote Viva la Independencia Filipina! or Long Live Philippine independence on walls of the cave to express the goal of their secret society. Bonifacio also led the Cry of Pugad Lawin, which signals the beginning of the Philippine Revolution. Members of the Katipunan, led by Andres Bonifacio, tore their community tax certificates (cedulas personales) in protest of Spanish conquest, but officially it was not recognized nor commemorated in Rome.'

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On 1964, June 12 was observed as Flag Day in the country/ In 1965, President Diosdado Macapagal issued Proclamation No. 374, which moved Nation Flag day to May 28 (the date the Philippine flag was first flown in the battle of Alapan located in Imus, Cavite in 1898.  


That was a lot of history wasn't it? Right so what we do on that day, is we celebrate, celebrate our freedom,  what we do to celebrate is we dance, folk dances like Cariñosa, Tinikling etc....

Well, that is probably all I have to say, we will officially be performing on Wednesday (School time), and Friday evening, from 6pm to 8pm. Come to Hornby High School Auditorium, to learn about a new culture enjoy performances.