Me , Myself and I

     So I managed to keep my promise of writing another blog before the year ends. And I managed to pass all those assignments I wrote in my previous blog in time or on the day of the deadline. Today, December 23, 2006, is the second day of our Christmas Break. And let me tell you a little something about this December: It’s stressful.

     So before we got to this vacation, I think it was Monday, we were supposed to pass our Filipino project. It was a mini-book report about the book we were required to read entitled "Luha ng Buwaya". The book was written by Amado V. Hernandez and is about the lives of the people in "Sampilong", a place where the "Grandes" rule over, because they have the agricultural farm land that everyone depends on to live. Well back to our assignment, we were told to make a mini-book report and a 4-page entry diary, since we’ll be working in pairs. I forgot this project, due to my incredibly busy schedule, and just remembered it last Sunday, a day before the submission of the said project. And to make matters worse, that was around 8:00 PM. I panicked and made half of it. And since it was already around 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning, I decided to make the other half of it at school, and pray that I’ll be able to pass it on time. Luckily, since it was the last Monday of the year that we will be having P.E.(Physical Education), our teacher permitted us to have free time, but it was only through playing sports. But while my Filipino book and Bond paper which I used to make my project in was caught by the teacher and asked if I may leave the things that are not related to her subject in my classroom, my partner who’s clever enough to hide her share of the project inside a badminton racket case, did not get caught. We tried our best in that 2 period (because our P.E. is basically 2 periods every Monday, each period is 50 minutes, so we have a total of 1 hour and 40 min. to finish the project) to finish our Filipino project and we did! Umm… but we left one part out: the "Talasalitaan" portion or in English the Vocabulary Words. We were too busy to look up those words in the dictionary and use it in a meaningful sentence. And by the time we realize it, it was already Filipino time. We will just have to cross our fingers for the teacher to give us at least, a passing grade.

     Enough with the bad news, on to the good ones. So our English (One of the subjects I’m superior at) had yet another project. It was to make a book cover for another one of the books we’re reading entitled "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck. The book is about a farmer who starts out his life being poor and after marrying a servant girl named O-lan, their life became upside down, thus starts the beggining of a splendid life and the uprising of many problems. I have to stop myself here before I summarize the whole book! Back to the project, we have to literally "wear" our project meaning we have to draw our own interpretation and understading of the book in a "Manila Paper" and staple it together and tie it with a string to form a sort of a clothing, this is what we did. Or you can draw it in a box and color it (using oil paster, water color, etc.) and cut holes in it so that your whole body could fit in it. Now, our project practically consists of two parts: One for how good we present our selves with the speech and the other, how good and creative our projects are. This particular project is also our "Periodical Test" in other terms, it makes up the 40% of our total grade. Our Filipino project is also our "Periodical Test" and so far as to all our projects this quarter, since the third quarter doesn’t have any periodical exams. I’m so thankful to have responsible and creative partners because the product of our hardwork: 100% in both categories; in speech and in the project itself. Well actually, all of us have a particular role in the project, one is going to explain in front (speech), one is going to draw (interpretation), and the other, which is my part, is going to write a summary and a teaser of the book (analysis). I’m so happy for our group!

     Another one of four projects is in A.P. or Asian History. But it is a very simple project. All we need to do is find in the internet who we want to be included in the "Hall of Fame". It could either be a leader, a celebrity, a personality, or any simple person at all, you name it! But it has to be just inside Asia. All we need to do is copy-paste from the internet that person’s biography and accomplishments, then we need to write why you chose him or her. We were to be graded according to promptness and creativity and implication. As for this project, I once again crammed! It was supposed to be passed on Monday but I tried to make it on Sunday night, alongside that Filipino project. So I passed it on Wednesday. But I am confident that I will still have a high grade because I made it very creative. I got most of my ideas watching "Art Attack". Say, that show is very helpful in making projects creative. Anyways, for that project I chose Robert Kuok, the richest man in Asia. He owns the Shrangila company and resorts and has a total of $1.2 Billion Networth Per Month. I enjoyed making this project, it’s fun to look up to someone great and worth looking up to. As for why I chose him, you’ll just have to read my report to find out!

     And the easiest of them all: Bible. In this subject all we need to do is make a comic strip about spreading the Gospel to other people and how to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Personal Savior, in short terms "Roman Road". The whole class are paired up but chosen classmates can work in threes. We worked in threes and I was the one who colored, the first pair drew, and the other pair thought of the idea. This was a project we found no difficulty in.