My faithful best friend...

This picture reminds me of me and my best friend. we walk together to the park, playing and we sometimes sleep together. but i really need to accept what had happened to him, in his age he just passed away and left me. I remember how faithful my best friend was, he won't allow anyone could touch me, I remember he always wake me up every time my alarm clock rings, and i was touched knowing that he waited for too long for me to arrived from school. I hope he will visit me sometimes in my dream 'coz i missed him so much!

This small things told ud Life is Big and beautiful

The color, the smoothness of the caterpillars skin, the different shapes and shades around its body, I realized how we are made beautiful and perfectly. We might thought how harsh the world to us but the thing we don't know is that it actually gave us lessons to learned and experience to cherished. The picture let us realized how little we are can be but has something we can contribute to the world, that is so Big and Wide to live in. The challenge awaits is how we can offer our beauty and how are we going to use them or how are we going to take care of it as ourselves become somebody big despite of our littleness.

(The picture above was taken from the Kristoffer gates' Facebook Account)

What is Unique with XAVIER UNIVERSITY – NSTP?

*In Xavier University, the two components of NSTP are being handled by the Kristohanong Katilingban sa Pagkabana – Social Involvement Office or the KKP – SIO.

*The two components namely LTS and CWTS.

*The XU – NSTP is a one year formative process tailored to the capabilities of First Year Students.

*Through this program. It aimed at developing the student’s civic consciousness and holistic formation, which takes off from the Jesuits frameworks of weaving community service into the threads of academe.

*There are General Plan of action which focuses in 5 identified impact areas and these are the following: a) Environment b.) Health c) Education d.) Governance and e) Shelter.

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*The Mechanics of the program are aimed at creating an impact in the communities in the Barangays by facilitating pilot projects for the local communities such as : a.) Herbal Gardening b.) Waste Management c.) Mangrove Plantation and e.)Well- participated Barangay Assemblies.

*With this intervention, it may enrich their sense of responsibility and deepen their own analysis of the social situation as they immerse themselves in the community and thus, it is the goal of the program to see and maximize their education as a tool to serve other people.

*The Xu-NSTP with CWTS and LTS adopt the two-pronged approach. This approach will be designated by two formation processes: a) Classroom Session with corresponding Reflection Sessions, (INPUT) and b) Area Work Experience.(development Assistance to the community)

*The program integrates the parallel processes of classroom intervention and community integration.

*The Sessions are inspired by the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm’s “Constant Interplay of experience, reflection, and action”.

*The values of the Ideal XU-NSTP has its root in the three fold thrust of XAVIER University formation – that is to produce XU graduates with Competence, Conscience, and Commitment.

*In Sum, an XU – NSTP graduates must have acquired the following:

a.) Nationalism – being true ATENEAN and a Filipino citizen who knows his/her role in society.
b.) Sense of Service – high regard for his/her Ateneo Education and views this as a tool for serving others esp. the poor and the underprivileged.
c.) Trustworthiness – with conscientious care and concern for environment as steward of god’s creation. And
d.) Principled Leadership – showing Values of concern for others, Love of Country, and Faith in God, and prioritizes what is for the common good rather than the personal aggrandizement. Source: KKP - SIO ( for 1st year Students' reference WeTalktoo.blogspot.com )