In the reading by Hubert Hermans, the story of Edward Said was included and I totally agree how stupid school rules on speaking English are. Even here in the Philippines so many private schools tell their pupils to speak English only so that they can “learn” but when the students grow up and suck at speaking Filipino they wonder why. I studied at the Ateneo de Davao and they also had an English rule back there in grade school. We never followed it but teachers going down the corridors would remind students to speak in English. Speaking English felt so unnatural as a child trying to enjoy playing with his friend. Why not speak Tagalog or Bisaya? It is your native language. I have nothing against teachers using English in academic settings but they shouldn’t try to enforce it everywhere in school. It gets so ironic when Buwan ng Wika comes and they make speeches about appreciating and being proud of our own language.

After reading about Bronfenbrenner’s theory and his PPCT model, I got the most curious about a person’s context such as his microsystem, mesosytem, exosystem, and macrosystem. I tried searching for examples online but I found that there wasn’t a truly correct category for one environment. For example, church could be defined as a microsystem in most books but it might really just be an exosystem for others. For me, I now consider church as an exosystem because I stopped going to church after moving here to Manila. For a long time now, I’ve just been going to church for the sake of it and because I go with my family. I usually don’t remember the homilies, I don’t get moved by anything the priest says, and I don’t have many relationships that were built through faith. It would be vastly different for someone who goes to praise and worship services every week and someone like me.