The Last Stride

I have grown and I’m still growing. After this 21 st quarter of English, I’ve made a clear sight of what I should and what I want to do and achieve. I have grown as a person that has learned how to accept who I really am and make up for the flaws that are necessary to eradicate. I have come to accept myself fully and work on things and strive harder to make a better version of myself, a comfier life for my family, and to improve the situation of my country. As a learner, I came to improve in the aspect of higher level of thinking and objective analysis and comprehension. Because on creating our communication model, higher level of thinking is needed to make one, we had to consider all factors and process and even prepared answers to questions that might be given to us by the panelists. Knowing that I have grown and finished my requirements, I can finally have my well-deserved rest.

To be honest, I thought this project was just a drag at first. With the college entrance tests coming and needs in other subjects, I thought this was just another school requirement to be done overnight and pass it another day. This project is really like reflection paper in social science wherein we are asked to watch a video of myself in my six years of studying in Pisay and reflect on what I have been doing these past years or like another case study wherein to study the effects of being a PSHS-BRC scholar for six years in terms of intellectual, emotional, and spiritual growth. I could also say that it was like another research in studying the effects of lack of sleep and overload of school work to high school students in PSHS – BRC. But actually, in doing this project, it helped evaluate and reflect the things I’ve been doing in my life in many aspects. All of these projects, activities and requirements connect all together like a family tree. And to represent that, tha...

This portfolio made me reflect on my almost six years here in Pisay. During my stay here, I have always wondered on why I do this, on why am I existing, on why am I here, and on why am I even trying hard. It was suddenly, pictures flash through my mind reminding me of the answers; it’s for myself, my family, and my fellow countrymen. I realized that I wanted to do my best to give myself a self-satisfaction, to provide my family a better life, and to serve the people of this country. I may lack in many aspects but I do know that I also have redeeming qualities fit to be a scholar, a daughter, and a citizen of this country. This portfolio helped me realized that my weaknesses also make up who I am and I should embrace it. Instead of dwelling, I should help myself improve, not to be the best but to be better.

In creating this project, my inner and sleeping art/creative skill has awaken. I was able to edit pictures on my own and I'm getting the hang of it. Also, tenaciousness because as a grade 12 student, who will be graduating few months from now, we are bombarded by school requirements, from SCALE to research and other subjects. This project helped me not to give up and keep striving despite the stress coming from requirements and upcoming and on-going college entrance and scholarship tests.

One of the challenges I faced this quarter is to catch up with the lessons and a quiz I missed when I was out to compete in the Science Research Summit and to come up with a model of communication of our own for our project. As I said in my weaknesses, I can’t fully grasp a topic without guidance. Everyone was busy, even I, so I can’t consult to anyone so I just borrowed their notes so I could study on my own and not pester anyone. To my surprise, it was actually easy to understand and to test my knowledge, I took the quiz that I missed and I passed (yehey!). As for our project, it’s really hard to come up with our own model without referencing other existing one. Here’s a picture of our model:

I am most proud of passing all of my tests in English 6. And also for coming up with a new Communication Model.  Here's a picture of my result in our long test  and the quiz I took after competing (made me really anxious because I was not there during the discussion): Baby steps towards my goal, slowly we'll get there. You know what this calls for? A CELEBRATION!

As of the moment, I can’t really say that I have an achievement in this first quarter of English 6 but I could say that my achievement this quarter is that I didn’t procrastinate any requirement and I passed all of my quizzes and long test which is a big help in achieving my goal this school year. And also, we presented the model without any problem. *insert confetti and fireworks*

In my six years of studying here in Pisay, I became fully aware of my own strengths and weaknesses as a learner. We might be, as they say one of the best scholars of our nation, but we are not some kind of robot that doesn’t feel tired and doesn’t have emotions. Personally, I’m having a hard time in the subjects, Mathematics, Chemistry ( how ironic that I’m a Chemistry core) , Physics, and English. I usually don’t get the concepts in a snap if there is no a clear explanation or a definite example. I also can’t study alone because I need someone to teach me the basics first before getting the whole concept and learn on my own. And maybe my greatest weakness it that, I can’t handle a lot of requirements at the same time because I’m a slow worker, I tend to allot a huge amount of time in just doing one requirement than it supposed to be. However being a slow worker actually is also my strength because it helps me to start on my requirements early (because I know that’ll take...

Six long years. This is my last year, finally, in this prestigious, cream of the cream of the crop high school, Philippine Science High School. Equipped with the advance learning courses, educational tools and facilities, and respected and learned educators. With my last year of staying here, I have a lot of unchecked things in my bucket list and goals I haven’t reached yet, and one of those goals is to finally get a flat one grade in the English subject, an unreachable dream indeed. I know to myself that I’m not that good with the English subject, so it’s really my goal to get uno in this subject. I want to prove to myself that I can get that bread through my hard work and dedication. I know it’s hard to get this grade especially if my attention is divided because of the upcoming college entrance tests and research requirements. It will really be a challenge for me to get this grade and if I don’t get this in this quarter, there will always be another quarter to aim for.