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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
July 10, 2007
10:30 pm
It was a sad day. When I heard the news from my former roommate, I cannot believe (or accept) that our teacher, Dr. Robinson Soria is dead. Supposedly, we will have our class tonight and I still remember on how he was so excited to actually start and discuss the first lesson for our Edtech subject. He was actually surprised last meeting (Tuesday) that I was in his class since I came to class on the fourth week. I enrolled Edtech 206 because the teacher is Dr. Soria. He was too excellent that I always track whatever possible subject that he teach in every semester so that I can enrol and be included to his class.. Robin, as he prefers to call him, is such a genius. He is a College Secretary for 10 years and a future Dean for the College of Education. He is famous for his stories and intellectual ideas that you can ask every student in the College if he was a good teacher and the sure answer is a big “Yes”. Now he’s dead and one of the U.P. College of Education’s best professor is gone. But the ideas and ideals of Dr. Soria will live forever.
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I went to class even though the news reached almost all of us, students, and we are sure that there will be no class for today. Went to class on time and almost all my classmates are present. You can feel the sadness and for the first time, no one is talking. It’s like an ordinary day waiting for our teacher to come in class. I know that we have the same feeling that we can’t still believe that our teacher is dead. He has a lot of plans for today’s class. He even told us last week that we will transfer to a computer laboratory to be more comfortable and we will use all the department’s resources to have an exciting class. Professor Leny Que(Dr. Soria’s friend) also went to our class to tell what really happened. As of now, he is still in the Morgue(Phil. Heart Center) since the College cannot find any relative here in Metro Manila. According to some, all of his sisters and brothers are now living outside the country while he’s dad and mom are victims of the September 11 attack in New York City last 2001.
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3 Comments:
He was one of the panel members for my thesis. :( I only knew him for such a short period of time but he shared a lot of ideas regarding my paper.
12:47 AM
yup, he is such a great teacher..tanx for droppin by
11:53 AM
Hi, Robin, is my Uncle. I am a bit late, but I just found out about his death while doing a search on him for one of my classes for my master's in education. I was uninformed of his death due to me training to be deployed to Iraq. Parts of the information you know of his family is true. We don't have relatives in Metro Manila and most of us are now in the States. I am the second oldest nieces, a daughter of one of his younger sisters. It is really nice to hear great things about him because I was 7 years old the last time I saw him and communicated with him. I am 31years old now, so you can imagine how long that has been. I am so much just like him especially after reading about him from his collegues, students and friends. I wish I was able to share more memories with him and that I was able to tell him that I am pursuing a career in education just like him. It was last year when I had decided that I wanted to take my PhD in Educational Psychology and become a principal or a dean in a university here in the states. You are very lucky to have known a great man. I envy you.
Romalyn
12:27 PM
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