REFLECTION

Another grading period is finished and I am again looking forward for the Fourth Grading Period's challenges for me as a student. Third Grading Period is filled with inimitable and mind-setting experiences.

            I observed that in every period, the level of difficulty as a senior student is becoming harder and harder. I understand this, because it is a part of our training for the future. Indeed, a bunch of learning and discoveries is on my mind, likewise experiences which I could use in confronting every chapter of my life. Our topic, this Third Grading period, was mainly focused still on HTML Tags and attributes with the use of the notepad. Honestly, I really enjoyed as well as challenged by this topic. We have finished 4, I think, hands-on activities regarding the HTML Tags and I am really thankful and blessed because Ma’am Evelyn is still there to share us some principles and pieces of advice. Her patience, dedication and firm love for us are still our strongest foundation as one family in ICT IV class. We have finished also 6 posts for our blog about our own perceptions and connotations on the different affairs our country and world are facing now. 

In HTML tags, I found some difficulties especially during our Second Periodic Examination. I was really confused and pressured by the time, in that time I felt very nervous about the result of my test. Unfortunately, I got only 16 out of 100 items I think. I was really ashamed about that, but I told to myself that I had to double-up my studies so that this will not be happened again this upcoming Third Periodic Examination. 

Third Grading Period was not a good time for me, still I must continue believing. Moving on, I will not be lazy to study my lessons, strive harder, enough concentration and focus. 

NEW YEAR, NEW ME

                The year 2011 has a great impact on my personality as one of the creatures of God and my fate in that year had changed me a lot in all aspects of life.

                Challenges and adversities are common in our lives, coming unpredictably to test us, for us to be more firm, resolute and competent in confronting and addressing these challenges. I had many unforgettable and inimitable experiences in the year 2011; glorious, depressive and some impeccable moments. My high school life has also induced me to change my bad attitudes as well as undesired doings. A year full of lessons and principles that must be a guide for me in the next years.

                A new year means a new and hopeful life; this is where I should take a glimpse and be advertent in altering bad attitudes into desirable and worthy attitudes. I’ll start in our home, as a son, generally I did not become a good son to my parents because I was so lazy in doing household chores. I explained to my parents and I appealed that we, students, were so busy in school because of many assignments and projects so I don’t have a time to help them. That’s one to be changed in me, laziness in doing household chores. In the school, as a student, generally I was not able to do my responsibilities well inside the classroom and out. I must have to be responsible or accountable enough in doing things.

                I hope this 2012 will be a good year for us, especially me, so that I could take part in giving a reason for my parents and my friends to smile. I want to see myself in front of the mirror saying,” I have changed”. Let’s confront 2012 with a big smile, good will and open heart for others.

KEEPING IN MIND OUR MOTHER TONGUE

            “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” A very striking and mind setting passage by Nelson Mandela regarding true importance or significance of mother tongue in our society.

            Mother language has a very powerful impact in the formation of the individual. Today we are all witnessing an aspect of globalization which is the increasing movement of people from one country to another for different purposes, and this really affects one’s mother tongue. Every language spoken in the world represents a special culture, melody, color and asset and to everyone, the mother tongue is certainly one of the most precious treasures in our lives. In our mother language here in Ilocos Sur, we proudly have our Iloco dialect. This serves as our own identity depicting every history of our province with our rich culture and traditions. Our native language links us with the culture of the society we come from and shapes our identity. When a person doesn’t know their native language well, we cannot say that he will be nurtured with his culture properly for the fact that the relationship between mother tongue and culture is deeply rooted. Mother tongue is one of the most powerful tools used to preserve and convey culture and cultural ties. People who are unaware of their culture, their language and their history will lose their confidence in themselves, the family, society and the nation to which they belong and will have no other option then seeking an alternate identity. Our mother tongue, the beautiful sounds of which one hears and gets familiar with before being born in shaping our thoughts and emotions. Our personality, character, modesty, shyness, defects, our skills and all other hidden characteristics become truly revealed through the mother tongue because the sound of this in the ear and its meaning in the heart give us firm trust and confidence.

            It’s a duty and responsibility to preserve our mother language and pass it down from generation to another. Whether we are urged by necessity or because of other reasons, learning another language brings a lot of advantages in our life. While doing this, let us not forget this instead, keep our mother tongue in mind and heart. Let’s embrace and be proud of our cultural identity, our MOTHER TONGUE.