To our very own Regional Director, POLICE CHIEF

SUPERINTENDENT JOSE MARIO M ESPINO, Sir, to our active Chief,

RPHRDD, POLICE SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT JUAN R AGGASID,
sir, to our Regional Pastoral Officer, POLICE SUPERINTENDENT
MANUEL R DEUS, Sir, to our new Training Manager of RSTU2, POLICE
CHIEF INSPECTOR ________________________________________,
to my former boss, POLICE SENIOR INSPECTOR JUN JUN BALISI,
Sir, to the equally Intelligent ICITAP Instructors headed by Ma’am
Vernadette Flores Gonzales, Mesdames and Sirs, HRDD staff, fellow
students of this course, good morning!

It is a pleasure to be part of this great learning experience, which

really gave me so many insights, and made me feel edified and nurtured
at the same time. I am indeed certain that everyone is also grateful that
he/she was given the chance to participate in this kind of learning
experience-seeing how blessed and fortunate we are in learning from all
competent lecturers. Thru it, I found some of great next steps of being a
writer and a better communicator the moment that I will be given again
opportunity to handle clerical jobs in my role as PNCO.
I just feel so amazed because the writer of the module of this course,
Technical Writing and Public Speaking was precisely one of the
lecturers. What else could we expect as students? We have no choice
but to learn a lot. Yes, we learned a lot because all the ICITAP
Instructors are equally intelligent.

When I was tapped to give the class impressions in today’s closing

ceremony, I was thinking of resisting the offer because I am not fond of
speaking infront of a rostrum. To be honest, it is only my third time to be
standing infront of this kind of wooden box: the first time that I delivered
a speech like this was when I was elected as the Master Councilor in an
International Organization, the order of Demolay, the second time was
yesterday when we had delivered our respective speeches. And you
know what; the feelings were the same on my first two experiences, “I
felt hilariously nervous”. But to overcome that feeling, I did not resist. At
least, I said, I will be able to put into practice immediately what I had
learned in this course. And besides, ma’am Gonzales said, that this is
not a request, this is mandatory.

I would like to give first my impression to our lecturers, I can’t find

any word that best fits your description and only to find out that you
possess all the positive and best adjectives that would describe an
instructor and a person. Brilliant, magnificent, intelligent, competent,
gorgeous and all the positive adjectives.
 P.S.: WALANG HALONG BOLA.

Anyway, what else could I say but to appreciate the whole package
of the seminar, the lectures, the venue and of course the food. Though it
was just a 5-day undertaking, it was able to contain the equivalent of
English 1,2,3 and 4 that are being thought in how many semesters in
college.

I remember the words of PCI GIOVANNI CEJES when he

delivered his speech yesterday. He made me recall of my experience
when Ma’am Meng lectured on one of the parts of speech, the NOUN.
He said that identifying noun in a sentence is just basic, but when he
mistakenly identified the word “HE” as a noun. I had no reaction but to
laugh. Why? Because you are not alone sir, I also identified the word HE
as a NOUN. We are seatmates sir, you know what it means.

In my more than 8 years of experience as PNP personnel, I was

not only exposed in works on the field but also in administrative works.
And I realized that this kind of undertaking is very relevant in all kinds of
police works: in both field and administrative jobs. As a police officer, we
have to be good in communication, both in written and spoken
communication. Me must at least know the basics in grammar whether
we like it or not. Because there will always be a situation that our skill in
English will be tested and challenged, maybe in writing a letter, a
memorandum and even in testifying in courts as witness for the People
of the Philippines.

This 5-day course was able to attain its ultimate objective. If I were
to describe this course in one word, I would say “SPECTACULAR”.

I just can’t imagine that a thing that can be learned for a long
period of time can be possibly catered in just 5 days. SPECTACULAR.
This course had catered our learning needs.

To my fellow students, let’s duplicate what we had learned in this

undertaking.

Thank you and God bless us all!

BY: PO1 HOWARD G CASTRO