Reflection Paper

about
Cavite History Tour
Submitted by:

Sanchez, Rhegen B.

BSA-BJA

October 14,2019

Submitted to:

Dr. Badilles, Dionicio D.

 What is the best thing I have done for my country? I actually don’t know, I’m not like our national
heroes that ready to risk their life for our country. Then I realized it isn’t important on how big it is. I think
the best thing I’ve done for my country is to be proud that I am a Filipino.

Last October 5, 2019, we went on educational tour to Cavite. Cavite is known for many historical
Events such Katipunan in Cavite, Tejero Convention, Trial&Death of Bonifacio , Declaration of Philippine
Independence and many more. I was excited with this tour because it is my
first tour on college. In this tour, our first stop is to the Aguinaldo Shrine, the
birthplace of our first President Emilio Aguinaldo. As we walk toward the
shrine, bundles of hanging Philippine Flags
welcomed us. The place is beautiful; the design
of house is antique. The house of Aguinaldo
transformed into museum, we’ve seen artifacts
and preserved tools, apparatus, materials, utensils, and etc. that used by the
time of Aguinaldo we’ve also seen the rooms, the dining tables and every
single of those has a story on it. We roam around outside the shrine and we
saw the tomb of Aguinaldo.

After that we travel almost 2 hrs. to get to Maragondon, we hiked mildly

all the way up to Mt. Nagpatong . There is a tricycle but our group decided to
walk because it is just 500 meters away and we want to breathe in the fresh air.
When we arrive, we feel the peacefulness of the
place, the trees, the sounds of birds, the grass we
walk on and the pure air, but the place has a tragic
story, May 10, 1897 in Mt. Nagpatong Maragondon, Cavite near Mt. Buntis,
Andres & Procorpio Bonifacio got Executed. In Mt. Nagpatong there’s statue
of Andres Bonifacio standing and a man sitting with hands tied. It took 2-3 hrs.
before we get to Water Camp, where we spend the remaining time before we go back to Manila.

The whole day is very tiring but we’ve learn a lot and the doubt about what our professor told us
about the history in Cavite is proven because of the primary sources we’ve seen from the places we go or
should I say the story thought by our teacher back then has a deeper understanding now because we’ve seen
it and places are existing. Our Prof. told us the Doubting Thomas Idea so this tour help us to fully understand
what happened in the past. This is the reason why primary sources are important, it can be used as evidence
by someone that has Doubting Thomas Idea feeling.

Some Documentation from Cavite History Tour

Aguinaldo Shrine

Things Inside Aguinaldo Shrine

Mt. Nagpatong