Philippine Association of Social Workers Inc. (PASWI) Convention 2008

Philippine Association of Social Workers Inc. celebrated the 60th convention at Hotel Supreme of Baguio City last November 19- 21, 2008. This event was participated by all social workers from all over the Philippines.I was too eager and excited to attend the said convention because it's gonna be my first time. For me this is such an honor to meet my fellow social workers.

HOTEL SUPREME

For some reasons,I was curious if there are lots of social workers that would come,for the reason that my profession is not that common and sometimes other people dont even considered it as a profession they thought it is just an act of charity or volunteerism. It is quite discouraging and totally a sad fact but this is the reality to my profession. Anyways I dont want to dealt with that since that is not my topic for this post.

Me and my fellow social workers were set to depart Cebu on the very first day of the convention. We took the first flight of Cebu pacific to manila and as soon as we landed and got all our check in luggage, we proceed to victory liner terminal for the nine o'clock trip to Baguio City.

LONG AND WINDING ROAD

FOGGY

From Manila to Baguio City it took us more than the usual travelling time(seven hours) because we arrived at Baguio at around six in the evening and we go directly to the registration area of the hotel. After registration, we took our dinner and find some nearby hotel or inn where we can stay since Hotel Supreme is fully booked, We stay on the first night at Rajah(but the room is not so good plus you'll get to see cockroaches) and eventually transferred on the second night on one of the pension house at session road.By the way Session road is the busiest street and lots of establishments can be found.

PARTICIPANTES 01

November 20, 2009 the convention was officially opened by a parade of chapter presidents, picture taking of social workers by chapter. It was followed by discussion of a lot of things such as Magna Carta of social work, licensing, accreditation, advocacy, academe election of new set of PASWI officers and so on and so forth.

PARADE OF PASWI CHAPTER PRESIDENTS

PARTICIPANTES 02

VIP'S

MS. THELMA LEE MENDOZA

(author of the famous orange book of social work who had helped me passed the )licensure examination.

The last day was kind of a disaster if I may described it. We paid full but we are not quite satisfied with what we are paying. First we were not given complete convention kit, our PASWI id's until now is not release. I dont know what exactly happened and who's person to blame but i guess with all the negative feedback's and complaints that the elected officers and staff of PASWI got they might just want to learned from it. Very unsystematic!

DAMAGE PASWI POLO SHIRT

Since the last day of the convention turns out to be really bad, we decided to stick to the plan which is going to strawberry farm, buying silver jewelries (very cheap)and eating dinner in one of the famous restaurant which is cafe by the ruins. They got great food in a very affordable prices.

STRAWBERRY

(Star for all for all season fruit in Baguio City, strawberry wine,candies, jam , vinegar)

KAMOTE
(This enriched bread incorporates bread flour with Cordillera Kamote , Millk & )honey

PINIKPIKANG MANOK

CAFE BY THE RUINS

When we headed back to Manila that night, we still took the victory liner and stayed in Kabayan Hotel in Pasay City which is near Baclaran, Mall of Asia, Star City, Manila Ocean Park and etc. It was my first time to stayed in Kabayan Hotel although a friend of mine used to stay on this hotel and he keeps bragging how good it is and he is absolutely right.I like it very much. I would recommend this hotel to my friends.

To end this post my experience in joining PASWI 2008 is something i cannot forget, compared to my visit to Baguio last November 2007 is the best, got happy memories compared to 2008 visit. The weather is colder though on my second visit.