Vigan City Solidarity Celebration

Another great time to visit Vigan is during their World Heritage Cities Solidarity Day celebration every September. Vigan celebrate this wth other cities all over the world that have world heritage sites.
In Vigan this special day is actually commemorated with week-long festivities aimed at strengthening pride in the history and culture of Vigan. This aim is in keeping with the long-term goal of preserving the 630 heritage structures that date back from the 18th and 19th century. Vigan’s well preserved Spanish trading town environ has survived the test of time, including bombings during world War II.
Vigan is an island, which used to be detached from the mainland by three rivers, the great Abra River, the Mestizo River and the Govantes River. It is unique among the Philippine towns because it is the country’s most extensive and only surviving historic city that dates back to the 16th century Spanish colonial period.
Vigan was an important coastal trading post in precolonial times. Long before the Spanish galleons, Chinese junks sailing from the South China Sea came to Isla de Bigan through the Mestizo River that surrounded the island. On board were sea-faring merchants that came to barter exotic goods from Asian kingdoms in exchange for gold, beeswax and other mountain products brought down by natives from Cordilleras. Immigrants, mostly Chinese, settled in Vigan, intermarried with the natives and started the multicultural bloodline of the Biguenos.

Happy learners, Happy School

        It’s more fun in school with happy school movement. There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy, we need to explore and discover new things.
Happy schools movement seeks to promote every school in the region as a better and enjoyable place to study. Region 1 had launched the “Happy School Movement” to boost the efficient implementation of the K to 12 basic education curriculum in the Ilocos Provinces.
Through this helps students that school is not just a place for learning but also for fun and enjoyment as they enjoy what they are doing.
Happy schools movement does not only concern learners but also the teachers, if the teachers were happy the students will be motivated. Happy teachers build in a happy environment and mold happy learners. Happy teachers will influence their students to be happy in terms in learning and at the same time happy in what they doing.
With this program, students should be treated with tender love and care regardless of their status in life, gender, cultural backgrounds and mental and physical capabilities. Every students should feel the equality so that they wouldn’t feel the gap between among students and will be happy in life and be motivated to study well.

Schools is a place of learning and discoveries. Students should not feel school as a miserable place it should be a place where in happy moments build in.
Happiness is more than doing fun things, it’s about doing meaningful things. Sometimes students just go in school for their friends and fun ,they just miss the happiness between them and not the school. They think school as a miserable place, if this will be the mindset of every student, they will not able to learn things.
Through this program, it will help every students to feel alive when they were in school and inspired to go in school to learn.