Spread your Christmas Spirit!

The cold weather made us tremble for the coming of Christmas. Colorful Christmas lights brighten our Christmas spirit. Christmas decorations realized us that Christmas was near. BUT all of these are WORTHLESS; the real spirit of Christmas is to cherish peace and goodwill and to be plenteous in mercy. Christmas is one of the special holidays that everyone been celebrating. Celebrating Christmas is wonderful because it unites us with our family, friends, love ones, and to the world. Christmas is a season for giving, giving without hesitations. Christmas has been my favourite holiday since birth. Though, it was the same month as my birthday and I was always looking-forward for my presents from my parents, aunts, and godfathers/godmothers. I was wrong that I made my Christmas as a present-storage holiday when I was a child, I mistaken the meaning of Christmas. It’s much worth-giving to other people who need it. But it doesn’t mean I stop receiving them, it’s just that I had changed my view towards the meaning of Christmas. Giving, actually, lightens our heart and soul. Material gifts may come and go but giving peace, love, and mercy is priceless and what counts the most.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Feeling Jaded

Last week has been a jaded week. We were so busy and loaded with preparation for our Prelim Exam.

Having the thought for Christmas have made my studies on ease because I could almost feel the Christmas breeze and I was very excited to go home. We haven't met in our English 2 class for two meetings last week but we are assigned to do some blogging activity for this Christmas and many more. Writing English is what I love since childhood because it makes me more expressive than in our own language, Tagalog. It's very exciting because we can encounter lots of new words, it's nice to hear their pronunciation especially when it is in schwa sound and it helps enhance our vocabulary. Lots of countries are eager to learn English. I think we are lucky, I mean, blessed enough that we learn how to speak and write English. Philippine is the third country that can speak English fluently all over the world, next to America, which Great Britain is on top. Consequently, blogging is exciting too. I said to myself one day that someday I’m going to create a blog that I can update it every day. I had a blog when I was in High School but I never bother opened it since the day I made it because I find it boring. I was wrong when I said that, “I find it boring”, it’s really exciting because we can update each other through blog and we can know other people’s thoughts. Through blogging, it develops our vocabulary, improves our grammar and utters our thoughts through technical writing since this is now modern times.

Happy Holidays Everybody! Üü

Vocabulary Enhancement

Every little knowledge has a means of purpose. Every mistake is a part of learning process to cope up something valuable in the end.

Thoughts build character; English 2 develops in a way of expressing our thoughts because it's all about writing in the discipline form. Developing thoughts help us through embracing and strengthen our vocabularies in English. Writing widens our schemes in thinking because it strained us to think harder to use such English language we want to write in or expressed. Writing activities are ways of encouraging us to expand our English vocabularies because it's a good exercise in our mind to cope up some new words and it's a great thing to practice with.

Since this is a writing in the discipline, our thoughts matter. BAD thoughts create BAD character, in reflection to ourselves, as well as GOOD thoughts create GOOD character.

On A Rush...

Everything was such a rush last Tuesday. I never thought that we have to meet on December 1. Ate Shonnie texted me the night before that, "There's going to be a meeting tomorrow". At that morning, I went to school and as soon as I entered the room, I saw my English 2 classmates holding a piece of yellow paper. A sudden realization awoke my clouding thoughts and remembered that we have an assignment to be done. It was about 10:30 when I began to wrote the assignment, I was nervous and I was blaming myself for being forgetful. I DON'T actually like things on a rush. As Teacher Lynnie entered the room, I was still not finished about the said assignment. Ma'am began to discussed and I stopped writing and started listening to her discussion. I thought Ma'am wouldn't let us pass the assignment yet because we're expecting to see her next Tuesday. After the discussion, she said, "Let's check your assignment". I was shocked and panicked and hurriedly underlined the Test-A assignment even though I did not read the sentences. I didn't bother to wrote down the Test B because there were no time left. It was really a major "oppps" moment for me. I was being clumsy and forgetful for the first time. It was our first graded assignment and I ruined it. I learned such lessons; Never EVER go to a war WITHOUT a weapon! Better luck next time. *sigh*

Clustering Ü

What's with Me and this so-called English?

When I was young, I was more exposed to English cartoon shows rather than Filipino shows. That makes me how to learn to write and speak in English. When it comes to speaking, my shyness, nervousness, and consciousness becomes the barrier of my language. I can say that my older brother and younger sister are really good in English. They're good in writing and speech. When my aunt came home from America, they even talked to her in English while I was seating there in silence and smiling at them. I really don't know why I'm like this. I'm so conscious when I'm using English because I'm afraid that someone will grammatically corrected me, however, my teachers and classmates would say that I'm good at my writings. By this It should gain my self-confidence, but still, I don't have the courage and I'm scared that what will come out to my mouth next. I'm not just conscious about it, but, I'm also nervous.

I know through this course, it will help me overcome my shyness, nervousness, and consciousness. Maybe this is the purpose for taking this course; to develop and enhance our English in writing and not just in writing but in speech as well. I believe that I can get through this because I know I have this skill.

Voyage to English 2

When I finally receive my C.O.R., I was really nervous when I found out that my section is "A3-2". Most of my blockmates' section is A3-1 and there are still others got separated too but they have someone to accompany with. What about me? What shall I do? I was really confused at that moment because I don't have any blockmates to be my classmate in this subject.

When the time came, I can hear my heart pounding even though I was still far away from Room 116. When I got there, I saw unfamiliar faces. They were talking and laughing with each other while I was standing at the outside door and I don't know what to do. Thank God, there's someone who's walking towards Room 116 and who's very familiar to me. She's a marketing student student too but from the other block. She's standing at the outside door too and I think she's waiting for someone she knows or her classmate. I approaced her and asked her if we have the same room and she said, "Yes.", and I was glad and made friends with her, her name is Narizen. And we got inside the room together. I made other friends with Aimee and Grace (Narizen's blockmates) and Ate Shonnie (a graduating Marketing student)

The teacher doesn't showed up for few days because she sprained her foot. As the time we met her, she talks about her requirements for the course which is English 2 this semester. She talks about the exams, the blogging site or the learning blog (like what I did now), and our term paper. We made some activities like we think of a topic that's very familiar to us and put some subtopic about it, however, it's pair work. Ate Shonnie and I paired up because she's seated beside me. We chose depression as our first topic and we have a lot of a think to do for our specific topic and thesis statement. And our specific topic was Causes of Depression of a Sudent: delayed in allowance, and failing of grades.

As the next meeting, Teacher Lynnie called us to tell her what's our topic pair by pair. It's about our turn and told ma'am our said topic. Unfortunately, ma'am said that delayed allowance is not a cause of a student's depression because it's a student's nature in schooling. We both agree as what ma'am said. And then, ma'am told us to make an outline form about it through topic sentence. By that, we kinda' change our topic into Stress because there are so many related facts about it. Ü