Covenant

I don’t know when I did receive a message from Emer about the covenant. I can’t remember anymore. They said it was like a welcome party for the new YFCs. I went to our meeting place in Naic with my brother. Since he is also a YFC in their campus, there’s nothing wrong if he will come. It was held in Tamio’s Resort, Trece. There were also talks like in the youth camp. We had four talks then after that, they gave us our I.D. and we played a game. They went swimming after we finished all the activities prepared by the YFC.

Christmas Party

We had our Christmas Party on Wednesday of this week. It was only half day. Our parents had a meeting first in the morning. It was about the tree planting activity we should conduct. All the juniors, with our parents and teachers, planted at the back of the Chemistry and Physics Laboratory, and the former Scouting Room.

At lunch, our party started. Of course, we ate first. The gifts were gathered on a table in front of the place where we held the party. There were games. I thought it will not be fun but I was wrong because I enjoyed when I participated in the longest line. This day, we should say goodbye to our classmates but we didn’t because there was classes on the next day.

So Busy

Before the Christmas vacation, we have many things to do. We were given projects, reports and other school works. There are many things to pass. All of us were so busy as if it was almost the last week of the school year. If you will go in our room and observe, everyone is busy doing something during recess and lunch time.

Term Paper

The deadline for our term papers was on Friday of this week. We finished tallying the data early. We already started doing our term paper last Sunday. But we had a hard time on finishing the paper. It was because of the RRL. Making that part of the term paper took us a long before we finished it. It was really difficult. Good thing that we can still pass next week.

Fiesta

It was Tuesday of this week when Robert, my classmate invited us to his house since it was fiesta in their place. Lara, Jed, Nikko Matuto, John Paul, Ariane and my other classmates accepted his invitation. We went to his house after the classes in the afternoon. I was really fun especially when we went to the carnival after eating. I can’t remember the last time I did that, go to a carnival and try almost all the rides. I went home late that day. Good thing my parents did not get angry.

Baby – Angel

Are you aware with the “monito - monita” or “exchange gifts”? There is a new version for that which is the “baby-angel”. The angel is the one to give gifts or anything to express love to his/her baby. It was fun at first. I received food and letters. Many gifts and letters were given on the first day but after that, it seemed that some of the angels forgot about their babies. Still, I can say that I had fun, on the first day only.

P.T. 3.1

We had our P.T. on the first week of December. Most of the tests were short but difficult. Some of my classmates were exempted in some subjects. There were also subjects where we don’t have tests. I was relieved when our PT. days finished. I just hope that I will pass in the tests.

YFC

I told myself that if I will join the leadership training, I will also join in the Youth Camp. So at lunch time of the day of our Math Festival, I went home and I got clothes for the camp. It was held in our school after the Math Festival, November 27, until the next day.

It was unplanned and I just let things happen. I enjoyed everything. I had a chance to be with my other schoolmates especially seniors better and of course to know God better. I realized and learned many things. I am very grateful to have the opportunity to attend the Youth Camp and be a YFC (Youth For Christ).

Math Festival

After the leadership training I attended, I proceed to our school for our Math Festival on the same day the seminar ended. I was a facilitator in the contest of Rubik’s Cube.

As I arrived in our school, I placed my things first in our room then I looked for Carisse. I asked for my shirt with our club’s name. She told me that it was with Ate Karissa, our president. So I went to Math Center and there I got my shirt. It was very small but good thing it fits me. I just changed there since I don’t have much time thinking that the contest where I should facilitate will start at any time at that moment. I went to LRC after that. The contest where I was assigned will be held there. I helped first in Sudoku before facilitating in Rubik’s. In the afternoon, the Mr. And Ms. Mathaba was held. The festival was ended after the awarding. It was a very tiring day but I had fun.

Mirachel

Do you know her? If you are studying or if you studied in Tanza Elementary School, school year 2002 until 2009, you’ll know her. She is good in Math…like me? I knew her because we were both contestants in Math in our former school. We became close because of that. She is now a freshman in Tanza National Comprehensive High School. Before, I hoped that she’ll be with me, we’ll be schoolmates, and I even dreamt of seeing her in our school but she didn’t take the entrance exam in our school. She is really a good friend of mine and like a younger sister to me.

Maybe you are now wondering why I mentioned her. It was because I just met her in the leadership training I attended. I thought that only Kuya Ian will make me happy in that seminar but unexpectedly, she made me happy, too. I was expecting for my former classmates to be there. I was shocked when someone called me when I was in the canteen one time. At first, I didn’t notice her but then when I realized that it was really her I forgot at that very moment that I was with my schoolmates. We were supposed to eat dinner but it was interrupted when I met Mirachel. They will also buy food for dinner when I met her so after a few seconds we left each other.

We spent time with each other on the last night of the training. The program that evening finished very late since they chose to not have program anymore on the next day. They wanted us to go home early so they finished everything that night. But since that was our last night, we chose to stay out late and if we can, we will not sleep. We stayed in the middle of the field. It was really not a field with grasses. It was just an open ground. We sat everywhere, looked at the sky with the stars, talked about anything and fell asleep together. I was really happy to see and be with her again after the past two years or more. I hope that we’ll have time for each other next time.

SSG

Who can tell that I am a member of the Supreme Student Government in our school? No one… First, I really don’t know if there’s such thing as “member of SSG”. But whenever they are having their meeting, they include us and called us “member” so that’s what we consider ourselves. Another thing, even I, myself, can’t and don’t consider me as a member of SSG since for me I can say that I haven’t done anything important. I also don’t know if I can say that I participated in some of the projects of SSG because for me I only did a little help. As in so little that I can’t recognize it. But you know what? It was not all my fault. There were times that they didn’t inform us properly. They will just tell it to others and we’ll just know about it when it was done. So what happens is that I wasn’t able to participate in their activity.

Then one day, it was unexpected that they informed us that we, members, can join in a leadership training to be held on the next day after they informed us. It was three-day training, from November 25-27. It was unexpected because at first, we know that only SSG officers can join and on the day before the start of the seminar, they allowed us to join. I was excited when I knew that I can join but I still took a long time before I decided to join. My first reason for not joining was because there will also be other activities after that seminar. We’ll be having Math Festival on 27 and Youth Camp after the festival until on the next day. It may be too tiring for me if I will attend all. But since I also thought that maybe this was the opportunity for me to participate and be active in SSG, I said “yes” and joined in the training.

It was held in Bucal National High School, Maragondon. Kuya Al Ian Barcelona went in that leadership training and his presence made me really excited. The first time I met him was when I attended the YES Camp in Baguio. He is really a good speaker. I was not disappointed because I learned many new things from the seminar. I met new friends and also my old friends. I also had a chance to know the other officers and members of SSG in our school better. It was a really nice and unforgettable experience.

Confused

These past few days, I had been thinking of many things. There are chores at home which I really don’t know if my help was enough. There are also assignments and projects for school. I need to do many things in our house and at school. Another problem was the schedule of the Math Festival which will be conducted by the CALGEOTRIST Society. I am a school level officer of that club so I need to be updated about the program that will be held. This week, we thought we were having the Math Festival. It was supposed to be on Friday. We had a meeting but it seemed to be that it will not be on Friday. They did not make it clear when the festival will be. We made some of the decorations. I seemed to be crazy this week because of being very confused of the things I should do first. All I want is for this week to end. I hope that I will be able to accomplish everything I should do. Good luck to me.

Sick of Being Sick

I have colds and cough again this week. I don’t know how come I got sick again. My father almost got angry to me because at first, I can’t find the name of the medicine given to me before. We were supposed to leave the house to go to school when he asked me about my medicine. I asked if I can just buy when I get home in the afternoon since I still need to look for the name of my other medicine but he told me to buy in a pharmacy near our school. So we all looked for it. I know that I kept it but I forgot where. Good thing after a few minutes we finally found it. In school, I asked someone to accompany me in buying my medicine outside our school. I told him that I am really tired and sick of having colds and cough. I don’t want to hear my father asking me if I already drink my medicine. He was always asking that every time I cough.

Review in Math

After the P.T., we had our review in Math again. Every morning, we were going to the academic building. We went to Mrs. Javier to ask for our exercises.

That was my life for this week. The whole day, we stayed in the Math Center, answering the exercises given to us. If we had free time, we were playing anything we could play. Every recess time, I went to our room and ask my classmates about the things they did. Sometimes, I ate lunch with them.

On the last day of this week, I heard that on next week we are not excused anymore. They said that our contest was moved to January. It means that on next week, we will attend the classes. After the classes on that day, I asked everything I should do for next week. I was really stressed because of thinking many things. I hope that next week will not be very busy.

P. T.

We had our periodic test this week. I was from a review for a Math Contest and I wasn’t able to attend the classes last week. Because of that, I may not take the test in some of the subjects. But since I had time to review, I just took all so I’ll not think of it anymore.

Last week, I had been thinking about the P.T. I tried to always to be updated with the lessons. I asked Bobby to have notes for the things they are doing. Every time I had vacant time, I asked someone to teach me the lessons I missed that’s why I am very thankful to them for being very supportive and cooperative. I decided to take the test whatever happens since I am updating myself to our new lessons.

When this week came, I almost change my mind. I thought that I may do better in the test if I’ll have more time to review. But I also thought that if it may also be the same. One more thing, I already told myself that I will take the test and once I said something, I should do it. We had the GSP camp after the test. This week was really busy. I just hope that the results of my tests will be all right. I am just hoping for a passing grade.

Sick

I hate this week. I had many things to do since I was excused last week because of the camp. Even if I was still excused this week for Math review, I need to be updated. That’s why I was thankful to Bobby because he was taking notes for me about the things they did when I was not around. I was also asking him about the assignments and projects.

Another thing I hate was I got sick. I have colds and cough. Then, I had a fever last Tuesday. I was asked to go home and to rest. I was not able to go to school the next day since I was a little bit not feeling and I still need to rest. At night, I had a fever again. My temperature reached up to thirty nine degrees Celsius or more. On the next day, I still had a fever so we went to Manas Medical Clinic. I had a check up. We waited for almost two hours because there was no doctor yet when we arrived. The doctor gave me another medicine and asked me to continue the other medicine I was taking for my cough.

Until now, I have cough and colds. I just hope that I will be well soon.

Camp

After a year, there was a Regional Environmental Science Camp again. It was earlier this year than last year. It was held in Pedro Guevara Memorial National High School on October 15 to 17.

I participated in the camp. On the first day, we came in the camp site in the afternoon. We fixed our things in our rooms. Then after some time, we had a parade with the other participants. There was a program after that. It started with the presentation of the cheers and yells of the different provinces. We watched the Search for Ginoo at Binibining Kalikasan. The program ended after that contest.

The next day, I was very busy. We were grouped with the other divisions. I was with Nica and Patricia, my schoolmates, the whole day. We were in Old Rose – Envirose Nature Warriors team. I met new friends from Batangas, Rizal and other provinces. I also had teammates from Cavite. We enjoyed each others company. We had fun in the natures trail. We also had other games like banana eating. I was working with them the whole day so I got tired and I slept early that night.

On the last day, our stay was only until after lunch. I took a bath early then fixed my things. We still need to be with our teammates that morning. We practiced our jingle for our presentation. We should have warm up early in the morning but the person who will lead the exercise did not arrive. At 7, we had our breakfast without knowing that the others were having their exercise. We just practiced our jingle after eating. There was an awarding after the presentations of the different teams. We were thankful to receive some awards and recognitions.

I enjoyed in the camp and I hope that I can still join next year.

Reunion

When I graduated in elementary, I always miss my former classmates. I am always looking for time to be with them. Because of that, we had planned four reunions in just three years after our graduation. Sad to say, we never had a complete attendance. But as time passes by, our reunions are getting better.

I was our president in our class. And for me, I should be the person responsible in planning our reunions. But since I was busy, it was our vice president who planned the past reunions. I just told them that I will plan next time and I will just be the assistant of our vice president for awhile. I was able to attend all the reunions they planned except the first one since I was in the camp that time in Laguna. I just knew about it the day before the camp.

Our last reunion was the most successful so far. Many attended this time unlike before. We were all from Tanza so it was not difficult to contact each other. We stayed in our house. At first, we met in our school, Tanza Elementary School. Then, they went to the house of others to fetch them since they were just near. At lunch, we bought our foods. They were from Jollibee, Chowking and McDonalds since we can’t decide where to eat. We went back to our house and watched television and movies while chatting. It was fun. I hope that will have a better reunion next time.

GSP

Many years had passed before I was reminded of being a genuine girl scout. Yes, I have been wearing GSP uniform every Friday but what’s after that? Do I really live as one of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines with the promise and law? I am sorry that I didn’t thought of that before. I did not realize that as years pass, I forgot how a real girl scout should be. I almost forgot everything about GSP. Good thing that we are now active again in our school. Little by little, I can remember the values I learned from my experiences in being a girl scout.
Now, I can recite again the GSP promise and law. But of course, I will not just stop in reciting. I will do my best to do and live with those promises and laws. My passion in GSP came back. I am excited to have different activities. I like attending camps, singing GSP songs, meeting new friends and many more. I can’t wait for our investiture. Do you know what that is for? It is for us to be senior girl scouts. I started reading the handbook I have. From that handbook, I learned more things about GSP. One of my latest knowledge about GSP is the GS Handshake. Do you know that? Have you heard anything like that or about that?
GS handshake is like the usual handshake but using our left hands. There is a story behind this. They said that it is like warriors. They carry a sword on their right hand while a shield on their left hand. When they drop their shield, they will be defenseless but since they trust each other, there will be no chance for an attack to occur. Greeting of the girl scouts to each other by handshaking their left hand is extended in their trust and friendship. Just from a simple handshake as I first thought, I learned something.

Kultura

Can you notice the polo – shirt that most of the reporters are using? It is just a simple kind of polo – shirt with a small figure of the shape of the Philippines on the upper left side. When I noticed the polo – shirt, I hoped that one day I will have one of that. Often times, I am asking my family about the shirt as where can I buy and other things about it every time I see them on television.

One day, my brother came home and he told me that he saw the same style of shirt in Kultura section in SM Department Store. When we went to SM Bacoor, I searched for the shirt I want but there was none. My brother told me that maybe it was just in Mall of Asia. When we went to Mall of Asia, I saw some but not exactly the same with the one I want. We then remembered that there is another boutique of Kultura outside the department store. We went there and as we entered the boutique, I saw the polo – shirts immediately.

I was very excited to choose when I saw the different colors of the polo – shirts available. I only want a simple one. When I was searching for it, the white polo – shirt caught my attention. I asked for a medium size but there was none. I was disappointed but then, I had my second choice. I chose the blue one and at last, there was an available size. I had what I wanted. I was very thankful when my father paid for it. That is now my favorite shirt which is perfect since its color, blue, is also my favorite color.

3 – D

Do you know about the 3 – D movies?

I am not that innocent with that kind of movies. I had tried watching a 3 – D movie but twice or thrice only and it was, I think, three or more years ago. Just a week before my birthday, we went to Mall of Asia. We first ate lunch there. Then when were window shopping, we saw the posters for the showing movies. We thought of watching Transformers at first then we changed and ended up in watching Up. We chose the 3 – D version. We didn’t buy any food since we just had our lunch. When we entered the theater, they gave us the eye glasses which we will use to see the 3 – D effects in the movie. I enjoyed watching. It felt like I became a kid again. The story is about the adventures of an old man, the main character, with a young boy in scouting uniform.

I liked the movie. It has plenty of lessons. One of its lessons is about sacrificing things for the betterment of the others. I learned that I should be very careful in making decisions and always try to do the right thing. I should not be afraid to explore and have adventures in life.

Exciting Birthday

It was still two weeks before my birthday but I had been planning many things for that day. I thought of celebrating my birthday with my friends and of course with my family too. But it will be difficult for me since they are not close. It will also be difficult for me to manage my time or with whom I will be with.

I decided to celebrate with my family on my birthday, September 10, then with my friends on the next day. Some of my friends are also my classmates so it will be better to have fun on Friday than on Thursday, my birthday. The reason for that is for us to not think about tomorrow, like about our assignments. I will let anything to happen on my birthday but after that, I will do my plans. I planned to treat my friends in McDonalds. I had been estimating the amount of money I need for that day. I had a list for my guests. I also decided the meals they can order which I can afford. I want my birthday this year to be really memorable that’s why I am working hard for it. I know that it will not happen as what I planned but still, I will do my best for it to be fun.

I really enjoyed planning for my birthday. I am so excited and I can’t wait for that day to come. I hope that everything will be fine and all of us will be happy.

Red Everywhere

What does color red symbolizes?

The bus we were riding going home stopped at Petron, Naic. The bus was not air- conditioned so the windows were open. I can remember that I was still talking to Lara when I looked at the gasoline station and noticed red colors. There were red things everywhere. I told Lara about it. She replied laughing and said that it means that we should use our red YES Camp bags. She said that because the time when we used those bags, we also noticed the same thing.

At the time I noticed red, I saw red caps. There were red cars and motorcycles. Signs have red backgrounds, houses and stores were painted with red color, and even the scarf at the back of a man I saw walking was red. I told Lara that it was happening because we were already searching for red things. Our conversation about colors started. It was not a serious talk. It was full of fun. We were teasing each other as colorblind. We started laughing and laughing until we got home.

What do you think is the message behind that event?

ID Picture

I don’t like taking pictures of myself. The only one who can take a good picture of mine is my mother. I don’t know why it is like that but it just happen. If you were one of my classmates before, I bet you haven’t really seen my ID pictures. Many said that they had seen those but I don’t believe them and even if it was true, I just thought that it was a little glance so I just ignored them. As what I can remember, I was not showing them to anyone since grade school if not necessary. They were always covered with something such as another ID or my name tag.

But something strange happened one day of this week. I showed my ID picture to some of my classmates. I was not shy that time. Maybe I thought that it was not that special anymore. It was alright for me since they didn’t laughed at my picture. I am always thinking like that because I had experienced it before.

Now I learned that people around me are more matured than before. I am sorry for judging them early.

C - Day

I got this style of keeping a secret about a day in Full House where, they used D – day for divorce day.

C – day was full of surprises and happiness. I got sick this day when we were going home but it was only Lara who knew it. Being sick means a different thing to my friends. For us, if you are sick you’ll treat others. We rode in a jeepney that time. Lara was just beside me so we planned what I will treat. We had three choices. Nikko, Lara and me did “maiba” and the choice that the person, who will be the one different from the other two, represents will be chosen. Nikko won without knowing what was happening.

When we arrived at Tanza, Lara and I told Nikko what will happen. At first, we told him that I was sick which he didn’t get fast. We still told him that I will treat them for him to understand us. Even when we were already buying, Nikko was still thinking if that was true and he kept on telling us that he doesn’t have money. We just told him that it was really true.

We had good conversation that night. We didn’t spend much time before going home because our parents might be worried about us. After sometime, we went home together.

My Father's Day

Can you think of other days that can be our fathers’ day than the real one?

It was August 7 this year when me and my father had a celebration. It was because of his birthday. My brother was on duty in a hospital in Malabon that day so he wasn’t with us. We should me with my grandmother and my cousin but when we arrived at their house to fetch them, she said that no one will take care of the house. We went back to Tanza and decided to just eat in Chowking than in other restaurants since we were only two.

It was a really good day for the two of us. I didn’t think of anything against him even once. The time passed smoothly. We agreed to each others thoughts. It was really our day full of happiness. I love my father whatever happens. I know my actions don’t always show my love for him but in my heart…he’ll always be there. When I was still a baby, I don’t come to other persons except my mother. Now, every time I think about that, I realized how sorrowful he was that time that his own daughter was crying in his arms.

For his birthday, I wish that he’ll have a happier life. I thank him for being patient every time I have “toyo”, meaning in bad mood. I just can’t control myself sometimes. I was really sorry for those times.

Father’s day shouldn’t be just celebrated in a day. It should be everyday for us to thank them and express our love for them since their sacrifices for us, their children, is not choosing any time.

Serious Fun

It was afternoon on the first day of August in San Sebastian College – Recoletos, Manila, I heard the words “serious fun”. I was there because I attended the District Interact Assembly. We were inducted as officers and committees of the Interact Club. We had sessions about the club and our duties as its members. We had many activities the whole day.

In the morning session, we had an activity where we were asked to group ourselves with ten members each group. I was with Paul and Emer that time so we became group mates. The other seven people in our group were from Carmona. I was chosen as their group leader. Our first task was to draw our dream house using the three colors and a bond paper provided to us. It was a good thing that one of us is good in drawing. After that, we were asked to build our dream house using any material that we didn’t buy. We went to the canteen to ask for boxes, sticks, straws and other things than can be used in making our dream house. When we finished the second task, we were asked to sell the house we made with the price at least two hundred seventy – five pesos. We went back to the canteen and to the other places in the school. We knew that it was impossible to sell the house we made so we just asked donations for us to have the required amount of money. We went back to the auditorium, where we were having the session, with one hundred nine pesos. We got tired after the activity but we had fun. In the afternoon, our duties were discussed.

For the whole day, I learned more about Interact Club. It was defined as serious fun. It means that we are serious or sincere in serving the community while having fun by meeting new friends and helping others.

Do you think I helped him?

I don’t know what happened. I just felt that I need to go home early. My first purpose was only to help my father in washing our clothes. I didn’t expect that I will do something else that afternoon.

You may know him but still I’ll just call him as my son. At the time I told him that I’ll go home with him, he just looked at me. I just thought that maybe he was already waiting at that time so I fixed my things immediately. When I finished, I saw him walking away. At first, I thought that he was going to leave me but when I got in the school bus I saw him and he reserved a seat for me. He was quiet for awhile but it didn’t take a long time for him to tell me what he was thinking. I didn’t ask him anything. I just listened to him for I know that it was what he needed that time. I already noticed it when I talked to him after the flag retreat but I just seriously thought of it when I sat beside him felt that something was bothering him.

I understood what he felt because I had experienced all those things. All the emotions he felt from the start, I know their reasons. I just advised him to help himself not to be affected by others that may discourage him. If they pressure him, don’t be one of them. He should always be optimistic and think that everything happens for a reason.

I hope that I helped my son. I just don’t want him to suffer or experience the same thing I had before. I also hope that he’ll have good health at all times and he’ll always do his best and consider each day that will come will be the best day of his life.

Salot na Pera

Ano ba talaga ang halaga nito?

Perang nagdudulot ng gulo sa mundo.

Kahit mabuti man ang adhikain mo,

Ito’y may kapalit lagi mula sa ‘yo.

Gamitin mo ito, bumili ng gusto.

O kaya pangtustos kung kailangan mo.

Ngunit kapag ika’y namihasa dito,

Dulot ay problema sa pamumuhay mo.

Kaya ano ngayon ang masasabi mo?

Mahalaga nga ba talaga sa 'yo 'to?

Kung 'to kaya'y wala rito sa 'ting mundo,

Sigurado na ba ang pagkakasundo?

Halina't sa pera'y huwag papatukso.

'Wag hayaang maging lamang 'to sa iyo.

Ang kapangyarihan ay nasa kamay mo,

Kaya gamitin 'to palagi sa wasto.

Missing You

For the past two years, I never forget about my grade school classmates. Often times, I remembered the moments we shared to each other and had fun together. I missed them very much that’s why before, I visited them in their school whenever I had free time. But it is different now. I changed.

When I started in third year, I became busy. We always have assignments and we seldom have free time. I am more focused in the present happenings in my life and I almost forget about my former classmates. But I know God made a way for me not to do that. It was only two months when the school year began but I had seen many of my former classmates. I saw some of them in malls. One of them, Che, visited me in our house. She was one of my closest friends. She had been in our house for many times and I was happy because she was the only one who visits me even if there is no occasion. I also met Bill, my former seatmate when I was in sixth grade, in church.

I was very cheerful when I saw my former classmates. I still miss them. I thank God for making a way for me to meet them again. Now I know that I didn’t really forget them and I never will. They will stay and always be in my mind and heart even if many years had passed. All I need is to organize my schedule so that I’ll have time for serious things and time for having fun.

Best Friend and Responsibility

How many friends do you have? How about the best friends you have?

For me, everyone can be my friend. They will just differ on how well I know them and how often we spend most of our times with each other. My closeness to my friends may vary depending on the different situations like if we are neighbors, classmates, schoolmates or how frequent we see each other and do common things. Some may be my close friends but not all my close friends are my best friends.

Since I am not very sociable I only have few friends. At my age of 14 years old, I can say that I only have one “official” best friend. You may be thinking how it happened. Before, I have two playmates who are also my neighbors. We looked like best friends when we were together but we never called each other like that and it was never clear to us since we never talked about it. We just enjoyed each others company. Most of my relationships were just friends and close friends and only one can be my best friend.

As I define best friend, he or she should be my one and only greatest friend. I also consider having a best friend as having a responsibility. Whatever happens, I should always be there for my best friend. That is my other reason for being contented of having people around me just as my friend because I don’t want them to expect something from me and the same thing from them.

How about you? What do you think is the relationship between best friend and responsibility?

Yes and No

Have I ever asked myself to give up in Cavite National Science High School?

“No, I will never give up.” I will do my best to graduate at CNSHS. That was how I think when I was still a freshman. Of course, there were lots of new things that time which brought excitement in the new chapter of my life. I was pleased in every fresh things introduced to my mind. I joined the clubs I was interested at. And the best part was having new friends.

But when I became a second year student, I realized the truth. One day, I just woke up from my dream in my perfect world and told myself, “Yes, I do want to transfer”. I saw the real world inside our school. There were unfair things that happened. I discovered the negative things which sometimes lead me for saying that I better study at other schools. But someone told me that it was just normal. I can’t avoid those things in schools, in any place and even in any situations in life. There is no perfect thing in this world, even a school. Now, I am not thinking of that anymore. I will just continue to do the right things and to be not affected by the pessimistic things in my environment.

After a few days I wrote this, bad memories became weeds that appeared and bothered me. I made myself busy to forget everything about them but there were really persons that I can’t please to not remind them to me. Until now, I can’t say that I will never think of giving up in CNSHS.

Creating Changes

How hard is it to change the wrong attitude of a person? Maybe, it is not really hard. Just show him always the right thing to do until he'll do it too. I can say that since I did that already and I felt so much happiness when I became successful.
It started with my so much care for the environment. I grew up knowing my responsibilities in taking care of our environment. I may not know everything about it but I know I should save and protect it. I do not throw my garbage anywhere but just in a trash can. That 's why I hate seeing other people that do not throw their garbage properly. Before, I just keep that to myself. I thought that my concern will just be enough to save our environment. But as years passed, I learned that we should help each other. No one can save the environment by just himself or herself. We should be all in this together to be successful. I should spread my ideas to others. Do you know the movie "Pay it Forward"? A person did something nice to others, and then each one of them will also do something nice to another group of people. Like that, if I will be able to teach someone to love, save and protect our environment, they may do the same things to others next time. One example of my success to that was my classmate. Now, she's helping me to inform others to take care of our environment. My latest success was with my brother. The last time I saw him threw his garbage not properly, he said sorry and I hope that it will continue to a change.
I just hope that I can do more in the future. Now, I will just work hard to create more changes for our environment. But still, there is always a question in my mind. How about changing myself? It is hard but which will I do first. Some say that I should change myself first before changing others because how can I create change to them if I can't even change myself. But is it not being selfish if I will think of myself first than think for the future of others?

About Me

Are you like me?
Please, don't be
Because I am living with no direction
And just a dependent person

Sometimes trying to be independent
But same thing just happen
All I thought, I had changed
No, I just became worse

Do you know how I look at myself?
I'm always in a shelf
A book sometimes used by someone
But then, they will all be gone

Trying to do good and right things
Not to be famous or something
But to be just a simple human being
With a normal and peaceful living

I can understand what life really is
But can't it be just like this
Not competing or fighting
For things not necessary in my living

The Unhappy Ending

Do all "endings" mean that there will be no next? Actually,this does not really mean that something stopped or lasted. It was not an ending of a story, specifically a love story for it to be happy. It was just about a week that ended in an unhappy way.

Yes, it was my fault. I did not really become angry to someone as how it looked like. I was angry to myself. Usually,when you were given something, your reaction should be happy and thankful but I did not feel that. I know that I did not act in a right way and I did something wrong. I should even thank the person who gave me that something. Now I realized my mistake, I do not have enow courage to talk or just even look at that person. But I know that I should do something for us to be alright again.
Still, even if I was sorry for what happened I want to say that my reason for acting like that was because for me if I do not need a thing that much and I can live without it, there's no reason for me to have it. One more thing, was that a thing cannot be replaced as long as it is still useful. I know that the person just cares for me,did not do anything wrong and does not mean anything but just to make me happy. I hope that we will be alright soon.

Where is our room?

I thought that this week will be normal. Normal as in there will be five days of classes and I will just be tired because of studying for the assignments. But unexpected things happened. First we only had four days of classes this week because it was holiday on Friday, since it was Independence Day.
A bad news also came. We were required to transfer to another room because the room where we were staying is a laboratory which is said not to be occupied as a classroom. We were all shocked hen we knew about it. That happened on Wednesday. At the time we knew about it, we quickly fixed our things and prepared it to transfer to our new room. I have lots of books and notebooks. They were heavy. I got tired in transferring my things. At lunch, we ate in our former room for the last time. After eating, my classmates played a game where they really had fun. When we return to our new room, we started fixing our things again. While fixing our things, we found out that there was something missing. One of the sacks for our Earthwatch was not in our room. Mizpah and I decided to go back to our former room to search for it, but it was not there. We went there thrice but it was really not there. We also search in the whole campus and at last we found it. But when we looked at the things inside it, they were not complete. Now, it is a mystery of what happened to the other things inside the sack, and we need to solve it. Until now, there was still no update.
The last day of this week, Thursday, was a day full of fun. I came to school and walk through the pathway leading to the seniors' building. At the end of the pathway, I saw John Paul and before I reached him, he already pointed to somewhere else. When I looked the place he pointed, I realized that was a room. In my mind I laughed at myself. Good thing I was not embarrassed when they laughed at me because if that happen my whole day will be ruined and all day long I will be in bad mood. But at the end of the day, I didn't control my temper. I had a misunderstanding with my friend and I hope that we'll be alright soon.

My First Week as a Third Year High School Student

I arrived at school early. I was the earliest in our room. I came at school at with my other two schoolmates who were also third year students and the funny thing about us was we have different sections but our rooms are just beside each other. Each of us was the earliest among our classmates. After some time, we had our flag ceremony then I cleaned in our room. Our schedule was also given to us but we were not able to have our first subject since we did something. In most of our classes, our teachers assigned some requirements and asked for our names but there were also some who introduced the subject they're teaching.
The next day, I was not early anymore but it was alright because we don't have logbook yet. We just had our Diagnostic Tests in the morning while in the afternoon; we had the continuation of the Brigada Eskwela. At first, we all thought that we can go home in the afternoon as what was announced so we were disappointed when we knew that it will not happen anymore. The other day, almost the same thing happened in the morning but in the afternoon, we attended the elections and meetings of the clubs we want to join. I joined the CALGEOTRIST Society and Young Environmentalist Club.
We were whole day on Thursday. Again, I came early but this time, I was with Lara. We had regular classes but in some of our subjects, we only checked the Diagnostic Tests we answered. This day, we received the Girl Scouts of the Philippines uniform we ordered. We were all waiting for it since it is a new uniform. I was excited to wear it the next day. So on Friday, I had a new uniform. The pants were a bit long so I folded it. About our classes, we had some activities and during our Speech class we had a game. It was called word challenge but unfortunately, I didn't win. After lunch, we had an election for the officers of the Research Club. I was not even nominated in any position but it was alright. At 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., we had our vacant time. I attended first the meeting of CALGEOTRIST Society then I watched the audition for the new SALIW members in the gym. I was expecting for a flag retreat after that but there was none because of the heavy rain. I had fun this week. I didn't feel that it was just the first week of classes.