REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

LAGUNA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY

LOS BAÑOS CAMPUS
Brgy. Mayondon-Malinta, Los Baños, Laguna Philippines

Ma-Lyn L. Maravilla

Dr. Chester Buama

BSND- 1A

August 07, 2019

Reflection Journal 1

How does this subject relate to me and my feelings? Although I don’t really like history

when I was in high school because there’s a lot of dates to be memorized. But this time, our

professor Dr. Chester Buama clear out to us that there’s no memorizations to do, it was more on

readings, dept analysis and understanding. I realized that there’s going to have a lot of activities

and exercises like vlogging and reporting. And it is good to hear when he said that there will be an

incentive if you perform what is expected.

In this first meeting of us with Dr. Chester Buama, he introduced himself. I was impressed

by his credentials and achievements. Then after that. he gave some preview about the truth behind

what does really happened in the past specially to Ferdinand Magellan and Dr. Jose Rizal. I can’t

believe that Dr. Jose Rizal was just four feet and nine inches tall and he was not that handsome as

we know. And there’s also no law saying that Rizal is our national hero. I’ve learned that we can

trace 700 hundred thousand up to 2 million years of history due to historical items on Visayas.

Before Dr. Chester Buama cut the classes, he said that before the semester will end, he will

invite Mr. Jose David Lapuz as guess speaker for the seminar. Mr. Lapuz is one the 45 member-

commissioners of UNESCO, he was the political science teacher of President Rodrigo Duterte. So,

it is going to be a great honor if this seminar with him happened.

 REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
LAGUNA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
LOS BAÑOS CAMPUS
Brgy. Mayondon-Malinta, Los Baños, Laguna Philippines

Ma-Lyn L. Maravilla

Dr. Chester Buama

BSND- 1A

August 14, 2019

Reflection Journal 2

What is history in my perspective? This is the first question that Dr. Chester Buama asked

to us after he distributed the topic that we need to present every meeting. He just gave 12 topics to

the volunteers to be presented and I am one of them. So, in my perspective, history has something

to do with our past. A past events that we will never forget. Some of my classmates defined history

as the things that happened to them that gives a lesson to learn. One of them says that history

repeats itself. But I’ve learned that the word history is focused on chronological accounts of events,

after science and comes from the Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía), it means 'inquiry', a systematic

presentation of accounts of phenomena without factoring of their dates are in chronological order

and this is according to Aristotle. History helps us to shape our identity and behavior.

Dr. Buama explained that Malay and Negritos wasn’t our ancestors through the process of

carbon dating. Also, we didn’t know if Rizal really retracted what he said to the Spaniards. But I

knew that we already have our own alphabet and language before the Spaniards came to our

country. And it was known as Alibata and Baybayin. In the end, I realized that we cannot move

forward if we don’t study history and can help contribute to build our future, this is according to

our Professor Dr. Chester Buama. So, the best part of this is when Dr. Buama said that the first 5

students with a high score will going to have a free field trip with him.
 REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
LAGUNA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
LOS BAÑOS CAMPUS
Brgy. Mayondon-Malinta, Los Baños, Laguna Philippines

Ma-Lyn L. Maravilla

Dr. Chester Buama

BSND- 1A

August 19, 2019

The Magellan’s Voyage Around the World

Why did Magellan left the Portugal and initiate to Spain? Based on what I’ve learned to

Fatimah’s report, she said that Magellan was reported and accused of trading illegally with the

moors. The King of Portugal which is King Manuel I, rejected Magellan’s proposals of finding a

new water route on finding the spice islands. So, Magellan set sail from Spain and started the

expedition consisting of 5 ships and 270 men. Magellan sailed to West Africa and then to Brazil,

where he searched for the South American coast for a strait that would lead him to the Pacific.

According to the report and to what Dr. Chester Buama said, Magellan was the first European

explorer who reach the Pacific Ocean from Atlantic. But he added that Magellan was not the one

who discovered Philippines.

They dropped their anchor at the Philippine Island of Cebu. This was the place were

Magellan was killed but not by Lapu-Lapu. Dr. Buama clear to us that Magellan was hit by a

poisoned arrow that made him paralyzed and left to die and no one knows who shot him. After

Magellan’s death, the survivors in two ships navigated on Spice Island (Moluccas) and loaded

their hull with spice. Only one ship which is Victoria came back successfully under the command

of Juan Sebastian de Elcano. In the end, Magellan cannot prove that the world is round because he

didn’t comeback. This should be Magellan’s expedition not voyage around the world.