BALANGA City – Students and some teachers of the PAREF Southridge of Alabang concluded on Friday their four-day visit in Bataan, promising to be back again to the historic and beautiful peninsula of more than 600,000 people.
Benjie Torralba, school seminar director, headed the delegation composed of 64 students and four other teachers belonging to third year in high school.
No less than Gov. Albert Garcia welcomed the group who arrived November 5 at the Bataan Tourism Office.
Vicky Garcia, the governor’s mother, is chair of the Bataan Tourism Council Foundation, Inc. “Thank you for coming. Please spread the word of what makes you and the school choose the province as one of your tour destinations,” the young governor said.
The tour was the sixth, in as many years, that students from the prestigious school have so far made in Bataan.
They visited the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant and the Pawikan Conservation Center in Morong town and Limutan Falls in Bagac. They spent some time with youngsters and elderlies at the Bahay Puso, a Catholic-run institution for orphaned children and the aged in Balanga City.
They saw and felt personally how natives live at the Aeta community in Morong. The group enjoyed playing friendly games of basketball and soccer with cadets of the Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific in Alas-Asin, Mariveles.
“We enjoyed our stay and we look forward to our next tour,” students said.
