The August Lane

Dundundun crammed my first attempt at a stop-motion trailer and it ended up too cute (Again, I stress my need for time management) but I guess it’s not too shabby for a first try,

I have successfully emailed my requests to interviewees whom I won’t be able to meet in person and called the offices and homes of those I could. I’m still waiting for most of the replies of most of them but I’m having my first ever phone interview with a health center doctor later–I would’ve preferred visiting the community where she worked but her working hours conflict with my schedule. Wish me luck!
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Also my thesis is going to be in Filipino, that’s right folks, I am shivering as I type. Not that I don’t want to but I find it exceeding difficult to write well in Filipino (I cringed after I reread the papers I wrote back in FIL11 and FIL12). Everything seems to end up barok.

I think I skipped through half of the “speech” that I outlined for my presentation–the flow of which even confused myself. But I guess this is what happens if you pull an all-nighter cramming the whole paper/presentation combo the evening before the presentation proper. This is one heck of a wake up call; i need to start managing my time wisely. Then again, I might not. Bad habits are really hard to break.

On a lighter note, I got some interesting feedback from the presentation:
1. Regarding the language barrier/issue:
- I don’t think the Tagalog/Filipino approach is workable given the amount of scientific terms related to the reproductive health education (I’ve also spoken to a few people in the medical community and apparently, there’s no official list of Filipino word counterparts for the parts of the reproductive system) . Besides the reproductive system have already been discussed in subjects (Science and MAPEH) of both private and public schools with English as the medium of instruction.

2. Storybook stereotype
- I’m still thinking about this but it would be good to have a nice flow throughout the book. Thank you Tata!

3. I have to rethink the specifics of my target market to provide a more accurate test in order to determine if my thesis succeeds in fulfilling its goal or not. And also to be able to provide a more foolproof defense.