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Hi Steemians! My name is Limuel 36, and I am currently working as a public school teacher in Metro Manila. I have been teaching for almost five years. I spent my three years of teaching in Mangyan School in the province of Oriental Mindoro specifically in the town of Puerto Galera. Half of the school’s population there are Mangyans. Mangyans are the indigenous community of Mindoro. I was assigned to the school located on the hillside of the mountain. Reaching the school in the mountain is not a challenge for me, but the situation inside the classroom is the real battlefield of teaching. When I was teaching at Mangyan School I was handling two grade levels inside in one classroom, it is because the school is lacking teachers and classroom. In the year 2016, I left the Mangyan School to start my family in the city. The situation of this indigenous community in Mindoro is really heartbreaking and that’s the reason why I never complained about how hard the travel is to get to the school every day. These people lack proper education, educational resources and even other basic needs such as shelter, foods, and clothing. Imagine teaching two grade levels in one classroom, imagine talking to a class of grades 4 and 5 who cannot read at all. Imagine the times when I am having lunch during lunch breaks and the kids are just staring at me because they don’t have food to eat. These were my greatest challenges. Good thing that there are people who are conducting outreach programs in our school to at least give these Mangyans a chance to eat good food and be supplied with school materials.
In the year 2015, I met my wife who is living in Metro Manila. When we got married and I decided to apply for transfer of station of teaching. Luckily, in September 2016 I was absorbed by a public school here in Manila. Just a few blocks away from our residence, currently, I am a Grade 5 teacher and I am teaching Science. It was quite a tough time for me to adjust from rural to urban set up of teaching. It was also tough to get along well with a new group of colleagues who came from the different provinces of the Philippines with different norms and cultures, unlike in Mindoro that all of my colleagues were raised in the same province having the same culture and norms. When I got married this is the time that I realized that everything is going to change so I have to deal with it. The students here are totally different from the students in the province.

Everything was indeed a new life for me, and as I go along I would want Steemit to be part of my journey. My goal as I start is to spread awareness to the community about the life of indigenous people of Mindoro, so as to share my life experiences as well, personally and professionally. I hope to get along well with everyone as I dedicate myself to Steemit and witness what lies ahead as we work on it together.

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