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We students, often say that teachers aren’t caring, we say they are very rude, annoying, boring and sometimes we often say they’re mad! Yes, it is very true that we often say these words and talk about it to our friends. And yes, teachers are sometimes very much like this. But do we know why they’re doing it? Do we know what they have to endure to teach us? Do we know that they are only doing this just for………………………….KIKAYS! Joke only!
No, they aren’t doing this just for, “kikays”. They aren’t doing this because they are angry at us, but because they truly and dearly love us!
Being a teacher is no easy job. You have to be strict, well disciplined and at times be the superior of all, to show a good example and leave a good impression to your students.
Here is my experience on being a bad boy to my teacher…..
Once, I had a teacher, my favorite teacher! Her name was, Ms. Madelin B. Tinapay. She was also a mother, so, she well knows how to take care of in obedient children like me. She had two children, Rendel, and Renelin, who we, her students, treated her like our own brother and sister. We would usually call her, teacher “Madie”.
Teacher Madie was a kind, thoughtful, caring and lovable teacher. She graduated Magna Cumlaude in College. She was such an achiever. Then, she chose to be a teacher at the Lahug Elementary School, my school. At first, she was still a teacher for the regular class. Then, when our adviser at the Science Class was promoted to become our Assistant Principal, Teacher Madie then became our new adviser.
Our first impression on her was that she was very strict. We though she wouldn’t be as good as our previous teacher.
But we were wrong. She was in fact better than our previous teacher. She was very kind to us that we would treat her as if she was our best friend. She would sometimes jam with our jokes and would always spend time to “chika” with us.
We all know that Math is a very boring subject, but not for our class. Teacher Madie would hold mini Math Challenges to ignite our energy and to make Math so fun that we would sometimes wish it would be Math that we learn everyday.
She was also very good at Math, because of her expertise in this field, we won 3rd in the Division Finals, DepEd, MTAP, Math Challenge. We were so happy with our place despite the many very good schools that joined the competition.
Now let me tell you what bad thing I did to this very wonderful teacher.
One time, we had an exercise in Math that involved decimal points. Our class decided that instead of writing .1, we should write 0.1 to lessen confusion of the teachers. The problem was I didn’t listen (‘cause I was busy drawing my crush in my notebook). My score for the exercise was (I could still remember the exact score), 15/20, just because I wrote .1 instead of 0.1 as to what the class decided. I really expected I would be perfect on the said exercise.
After learning that I wasn’t perfect, I cried and I cursed my teacher just for one exercise. I said many mean words to her; I cursed her for so many times. I didn’t talk to her for a week!
But in the end, I said sorry to her because I realized that I was the one who was wrong and I was the one who had been unreasonable.
So this one thing I can only say to you people, never treat your teachers as if they’re just your servants.
I leave this saying to you:
“Do not do to others what you Don’t want others do unto you.”
BYE!
Many people will walk in and out of your life.
But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.
Friends
Anger is only one letter short of danger
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;
If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
He, who loses money, loses much;
He, who loses a friend, loses much more;
He, who loses faith, loses all.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.
Learn from the mistakes of others
You can't live long enough to make them all
yourself.
Friends, you and me...
You brought another friend...
And then there were 3...
We started our group...
Our circle of friends...
And like that circle...
There is no beginning or end...
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called the present.
Show your friends how much you care...
Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND.
If it comes back to you, then you'll know you
have a circle of friends.
When you receive this letter,
I recommend that you send it to all your friends,
including the person who sent it to you!
You don't have to send it to your friends, it's your choice.
I don't want to force you to do it, but trust me;
it's always good to tell your friends
some nice words now and then
and that you care...
How did the world begin? Where did we come from? People have been puzzling over questions like these for thousands of years.
The Bible tells of the Creation of the world in the Book of Genesis. It tells how God created the world and all living things.
But there are other stories about how the world began that have been told by people from many lands and with many different beliefs. These stories, which are very old, tell us a great deal about the people who first told them and the places where these people lived.
There is also a new story that scientists from different land are still trying to put together. Some people do not agree with this scientific story. But most scientists think it is true.
Scientists tell us the earliest man-like creatures were alive about 14 million years ago. They were more like apes than people, but they did move about on two feet looking for fool.
Some types of early people, like Nutcracker Man, did not survive. Those that did had changed their way of life. They moved out of Africa, into Asia and Europe. They became meat eaters and they learnt to hunt in groups and to share their food. They used sharp flint and stone tools.
About 40,000 years ago, modern people appeared. Their brain was the same size as ours today and they behaved more like us. They were able to make finer tools to help them to hunt; they buried their dead, and painted the walls of the caves where they lived. Prehistoric paintings have been preserved in many parts of France, Spain, North Africa and Australia. Some of them are as much as 30,000 years old. They have been preserved in the caves, where there is no wind, rain or sunlight to wear them away, for all those thousands of years. Most of the paintings are of prehistoric animals like woolly mammoths and rhinoceroses, and of bison, horses and deer. Very few show people. No one knows exactly why these pictures were made. Some scientists think the prehistoric people used the paintings to make magic - magic they believed could help them when they went hunting. Others think the animals were meant to stand for something else, like spirits of gods.
Later, about 10,000 years ago, people began to farm. They stayed in one place and began to live in groups called communities.
Think about all the things you’ve been doing lately. Have you been reading? Writing? Studying? Praying? Playing? You are sure to have done some of these things. Most people’s lives today are filled with such activities. They are the activities of a civilization. But it hasn’t always been like this.
At first, (as I said) people were only hunters or farmers. Then, as time passed, farming began to solve the fool problem. People grew more food than was needed each day. So they could store some away. Now there was time for new activities and skills to be learnt.
The next big step was for people to get together and work out laws to live by and ways of sharing and recording their knowledge. This was the beginning of civilization.
The first civilization grew up about 6,000 years ago in Sumer. Today this area is called Iraq. Other early civilizations followed in India, Egypt and China. The Sumerians developed farming machines and skills. Cities developed and here the earliest forms of metal work, brick building, writing and money began.
In India the Indus Valley civilization developed along the banks of the rivers in western India and Pakistan. Later civilizations also spread along the River Ganges.
The Egyptians believed in everlasting life. The Egyptian kings, called pharaohs, built tombs inside enormous stone pyramids. The records of their lives are still being unearthed today from these burial places.
The great area of the Far East had been divided by wars. Now the Ch’in tribe succeeded in uniting everyone into one vast empire called China.
All these places had something in common- they all had great rivers, which made the land good for farming. The easier it was for people to farm land and get food, the more time they had left for other things.
People have certainly made an impact on this earth. We’ve been around for a long time, but in the history of the earth we’re really late arrivals.
Imagine all of earth’s history squeezed into one day. On this scale the tiniest living things probably first appeared at about 4 am. But the first animals with backbones – fishes – don’t appear until about 9:20 pm. Man-like apes appear one minute before midnight – and modern people less than one second before midnight strikes.
In the beginning, there was nothing, purely…nothing. Just a vast wide space without anything in it. Then, the Lord decided, “I shall create the sun to have light within this wide space”. Well, you know what happened next, and after it, and after it, and after it.
God made so many things! He made the trees, flowers, the people and many other things in this big, big universe! But the most beautiful of these creations, (in my opinion) are the stars and the sky. The sky which gives delight by day, and the stars which serve as our dreams at night.
But what do these beautiful creations tell us? What good could it give us? Would these improve our lives or achieve our goals? That I leave to you. We, who ask these questions, are the only ones who can answer this.
Let me tell you my experience when my most favorite person in the whole wide world, my grandma (except of course my parents and God), passed away.
My grandma’s name was, Glyceria M. Pangilinan (the mother of my mother). She was a simple, honest, religious, trustworthy, thoughtful and caring mother. She was…my best friend (during those days). And of course, her favorite grandchild was…me! What I always would like to call her was, “Lola Inay”. The very day I was born, my grandma cherished me as if I were her own. She took care of me and laughed at me, when I would do weird things like, eating “bahaw” with my bare hands when I was a child, and one time when I played with my toy iron and I would say, “ay init!”. She would also read me stories of the old, defend me from my elder brother and sister, and would even make me pancakes and banana chips! I never EVER thought that one day, she would be…gone T_T.
She died from a heart attack. My cousin says they were just peeling Indian mangoes when suddenly; she fell back on the floor. The doctors did everything they could, but the sad thing was, I didn’t reach her at her last breath.
Though difficult, I really tried to face it like a man. But the pain was too difficult to endure, and at that time I couldn’t think of anything but cry and remember her as a friend.
In the end, I recovered from that tragic moment. I simply prayed that she would be alright in the hands of our Lord.
Now, I’m happy again. But still, I sometimes dream of her every night and the pain in my heart would come back as if I was stabbed directly on the heart.
You see, happiness could be seen even in the darkest of our time. But it only remembers when you turn on the light.
When I look at the sky, I could see my different goals in life. I see the hope of humanity is still in the holy hands of God. And when I look at the stars, I could dream away into the night, imagine that I’m flying over the world, seeing my loved ones happy and full of life. But only this I can say, that by having faith in God, we can surpass the hardships we encounter and await our journey to HEAVEN!
