Entry # 10 – Output Consultation (Third and Last Community Visit)

Today was our group’s third and last visit to the community of Barrio Magsaysay, Tondo, Manila. 9 ‘o’ clock was our call time and we left the school at around 9:30 in the morning. Needless to say, we were only less than 10 for today’s visit. We had our drafts ready for their confirmation, hoping that we were able to satisfy their needs. We arrived at the community past ten in the morning and as usual, we were welcomed by the teachers in the day care center with smiles on their faces.

We started the day with a prayer and then continued to work on the outputs we made. We showed our drafts, which is basically what we have worked on in the past few days. What was assigned to us was the pamphlet mainly about the community’s profile, incorporated with the informations we have gathered from the last time’s visit. Their feedback was, the content of our output was insufficient.

It was a bit disappointing, in my opinion. The fact that we have gathered all the informations needed from the secretary of the barangay, we could have perhaps included all the necessary datas needed for the community’s profile. They explained to us that the barangay hall was not actually updated with the current situation of the whole community, thus, some of the informations we have gathered were already old and not up to date.

We had to conduct another interview and had to collect another set of information but this time, the updated ones. A lot of revisions will be made and hopefully, we’d be able to finish our output on time. I guess the lesson that I learned today was that the use of only one source is not valid enough to be used as a fact. This can also be applied in the business world. Having your research skills enhanced will help you to produce an output that is verifiable, an output that can be considered as factual.

Complaining will take you nowhere. Part of being a student is to be responsible and part of learning is to be professional. I guess what we can do now, as a group, is to be responsible and be professional. We’ll do our best to complete what is asked of us and meet their expectations.