Two-Day Experience as an Usherette

Assumption Iloilo conducted an Open House in line with the month-long Centennial celebration. Approximately, 1,200 people came over. Students, parents, teachers, school people, walk-in guests and the alumni fall in long queue and registered for the campus tour facilitated by the high school usherettes.

I was one of the lucky chosen usherettes. Lucky because I was excused from my class for two days and I had the chance to show and tour the guests from pillar to post what Assumption really is behind all the negative issues and lies about our school.

For the first day of the Open House, our team ushered the group of parents until I only had one parent. I decided to separate myself from the group because the parent wants to be toured alone for she wanted to recall the memories wherein her eldest daughter was still studying in Assumption. I was blessed to tour her around because I saw my parents in her. I know my parents are having a hard time to sustain me in Assumption. Although the Assumption has a reputation that the tuition fees are indeed expensive, they believe that the school educates and transforms children very well. That's why they want me to finish my study in Assumption until high school.


Then, I was back to my group in the afternoon. Our group handled the grades 1 and 2 students of Central Elementary School. It was very tiring to tour them around. My gosh! The boost of their energy was really a blast. The moment we got out from the Information Area, they were all thunder struck because the campus was very wide. They started running due to excitement especially when are about to enter the Swimming pool. You would really see what they feel about our school because the moment they got in and got out of the campus, the smile on their face was pasted permanently until the time they went out of school. Some of them don't even want to leave because they were head over heels to our school. For them it was already a field trip.


On the next day, our group handled again the parents and the school people. I was again separated from my group because two BIR employees asked if they could skip the break and if I could tour them to the high school building to the last spot. I accepted their favor and I also skipped the break. One of them was an old high school student. Her name is Kristah. The other one has a relative in Assumption who is part of the faculty and staff. She is Eva. My experience with them was a two way process. They learned from me as I introduced the new face of Assumption. And, I learned from them especially from Kristah. She told me her experiences way back when she was in high school.


She named to me the places that they didn't use or were not yet constructed during her time such as the locker area which was before the high school canteen and the lockers were near the fourth year's rest room. She also said that the Casa Santa was not yet constructed. And the nuns were still settled in the Reflection Area. They also observed classes in high school. They were amazed because almost all the places in the campus are very convenient. They really commented on the Interactive White board and the OPAC System of the high school library that they are very high-tech.

We ate the snacks provided together in the refectory. They told me that they did not regret their decision to attend the Open House. They really enjoyed the tour and they felt blessed to be part of this event. They wish they could send their children in Assumption in the future because they indeed believed that Assumption education is a life-time investment.


I felt really lucky to be an usherette. I am very happy to know their feed backs and impressions of our school. I also realized after wondering why am I always separated from my group. It is because God gave me the opportunity to see how blessed I am for being able to study in Assumption. I felt afterwards that I was not literally an usherette. Yes, I facilitated the campus tour. But, I was also
like a visitor in tour as I saw and realized deeply that God bestowed me one of the best elements of life. It is having a better education!