This last two weeks have been both tiring and hard, but exciting yet a little bit sad. Exciting because our topic is about exegesis (drawing out the meaning from a text as opposed to reading into it) and it is one topic that is not very easy to communicate mostly because of the many technical terms that you need to define, and the awareness that one has to have in dealienating it from the other thing (eisegesis). It was tiring and hard for all the members of the teaching staff because we had to prepare lesson plans to teach for the whole two weeks of the workshop. We have had to prepare powerpoints and handouts in Tagalog. Yes, in Tagalog and believe me, I and three others are very fluent Tagalog speakers (like Tagalog is our second language) but how in the world do you Tagalogize personal cognitive schema, exegesis, eisegesis, hermeneutics, etc. ? Well, for the latter three words, we just changed the spelling and then defined it....
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