Friday, August 7, 2009

JOURNAL 10

1. Cite one experience wherein you have experienced negative peer pressure.

- When my friends force me to smoke.

2. How did you react to it? Why?

- I just said no, because it is bad to my health.

3. How did you feel about your reaction/decision?

- I felt fine because they also realized that it is bad for them.

4. What have you learned/realized from your experience?

- I learned that you should not follow things even if your friends told you. You must analyze the situation if it is good for you or not.

JOURNAL 9

1. How do you describe a responsible person?

- A responsible person for me is doing his or her assigned work properly

2. What are your responsibilities a) at home, b) in school c) in your community?

- A. My responsibility in our home is doing the household chores.
- B. My responsibility in school is to listen and participate in discussion.
- C. My responsibility in our community is to clean the surrounding and follow the rules.

JOURNAL 8

I. Challenge yourself

Choose a challenge:
a. Tell the truth
b. Return recovered things (personal items, money, etc)
c. Admit mistake
d. Return excess change
e. Avoid cheating

On your journal, process your experience with the aid of the following guide questions:
a. What challenge did you take?
b. Were you able to do the challenge? How do you feel about it?
c. What have you realized/learned from your experience?

- A. To return the excess change.
- B. Yes, when the jeepney driver gave me excess change I returned it back to him.
- C. I felt good. I realized that doing good things to others has a good return to your life.

JOURNAL 7

Review the results of your personal health assessment and write your realizations and plans about your health in your journal?

- For me, there is nothing to worry in my health because I have no vices. I must continue my proper diet and exercise so I will become more healthy.

JOURNAL 6

1. What challenge did you take?

- I challenged my self to have a high score in my long exams

b. Were you able to beat the challenge? How do you feel about it?

- Yes, I have done it and I feel good about it because I got a passing scores in the exams.

c. What have you realized/learned from your experience?

- I realized that if I'm going to challenge my abilities, I can improve my skills and improve myself.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

JOURNAL 5

1. Develop a doable daily and weekly schedule.
a. Daily schedule includes time for rising in the morning, self preparations including meals/merienda, school hours, time for travel going to school, length of time staying at school, doing assignments, reviewing lessons or advance academic preparations, sports/ leisure and rest/sleeping.
b. Weekly schedule includes your class schedules, appointments/meetings, academic preparation.

MONDAY
5:30 A.M- Wake up in the morning
5:45 A.M- Eat my breakfast and take a bath and brush my teeth
6:10 A.M- Fix my self and wear my clothes
6:15 A.M- Go to school
6:40 A.M- arrived in school
7:00-10:00 A.M- IT class
10:00-11:30 A.M- Values Education class
12:15 P.M- go home and eat lunch
4:30 P.M- doing my assignments
7:00 P.M- eat my dinner
9:30 P.M- sleeping time
TUESDAY
5:30 A.M- Wake up in the morning
5:45 A.M- Eat my breakfast and take a bath and brush my teeth
6:10 A.M- Fix my self and wear my clothes
6:15 A.M- Go to school
6:40 A.M- arrived in school
7:00-8:30 A.M- Social Science class
8:30-10:00 A.M- Humanities class
10:00-11:30 A.M- Math class
12:20 P.M- eat lunch and go home
4:30 P.M- doing my assignments
7:00 P.M- eat my dinner
9:30 P.M- sleeping time
WEDNESDAY
5:30 A.M- Wake up in the morning
5:45 A.M- Eat my breakfast and take a bath and brush my teeth
6:10 A.M- Fix my self and wear my clothes
6:15 A.M- Go to school
6:40 A.M- arrived in school
7:00-9:15 A.M- P.E class
11:30 A.M -1:00 P.M- English class
1:25 P.M- eat lunch and go home
4:30 P.M- doing my assignments
7:00 P.M- eat my dinner
9:30 P.M- sleeping time
THURSDAY
5:30 A.M- Wake up in the morning
5:45 A.M- Eat my breakfast and take a bath and brush my teeth
6:10 A.M- Fix my self and wear my clothes
6:15 A.M- Go to school
6:40 A.M- arrived in school
7:00-8:30 A.M- Social Science class
8:30-10:00 A.M- Humanities class
10:00-11:30 A.M- Math class
12:20 P.M- eat lunch and go home
4:30 P.M- doing my assignments
7:00 P.M- eat my dinner
9:30 P.M- sleeping time
FRIDAY
5:30 A.M- Wake up in the morning
5:45 A.M- Eat my breakfast and take a bath and brush my teeth
6:10 A.M- Fix my self and wear my clothes
6:15 A.M- Go to school
6:40 A.M- arrived in school
7:00-10:00 A.M- Drawing class
11:30 A.M -1:00 P.M- English class
1:25 P.M- eat lunch and go home
4:30 P.M- doing my assignments
7:00 P.M- eat my dinner
9:30 P.M- sleeping time
SATURDAY
5:30 A.M- Wake up in the morning
5:45 A.M- Eat my breakfast and take a bath and brush my teeth
6:10 A.M- Fix my self and wear my clothes
6:15 A.M- Go to school
6:40 A.M- arrived in school
7:00-8:30 A.M- Social Science class
8:30-10:00 A.M- Humanities class
10:00-11:30 A.M- Math class
12:20 P.M- eat lunch and go home
4:30 P.M- doing my assignments
7:00 P.M- eat my dinner
9:30 P.M- sleeping time
SUNDAY
6:30 A.M- wake up in the morning
7:00 A.M- eat breakfast, take a bath and brush my teeth
7:15 A.M- wear my clothes and fix my self
7:25 A.M- go to school
7:50 A.M- arrived in school
8:00-10:00 A.M- NSTP class
11:30 A.M- go home and take my lunch
4:30-5:30 P.M- go to church
6:00 P.M- do my assignments
7:00 P.M- eat dinner
9:30 P.M- sleeping time


2. On your journal, write an essay on the theme “The Most Challenging Thing I have ever Accomplished”. It describes your own experience of completing a task, given your full effort, dedication and determination. This could be about:

a) masterpiece (a painting, a poem, a short story, a song composition, etc.)
b) learned skills (driving, cooking, sports, playing musical instruments, and acting)
c) accomplishments (reaching peak of a mountain, an invention, fixing an appliances/electronic device, finishing trainings for high school cadet officer, etc

The Most Challenging Thing I have ever Accomplished

The most challenging thing I have ever Accomplished is finishing high school trainings like CAT it has many challenges like community service, culminating activity, forms and guarding campus building. It is hard to do that activities because our officers are very strict and we should be disciplined well like soldiers so I'm very happy that I accomplished those things and having a passing grade.

JOURNAL 4

1. Looking back at the list of your positive characteristics and qualities, what do you feel and realize about it?

- Looking back at my positive characteristics and qualities, I realized that I'm also a good person even though I'm a naughty guy. I can also do good to others and be mature enough to help other people, so I feel happy about that.

2. The Golden Rule says “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”
a. Given the following situations, how would you like to be treated by your teachers and schoolmates:
- when you have given wrong answers to the questions during recitation,
- when you are expressing your opinion during class or group discussion;
- when you are giving suggestions during group work or presentation;
- when you commit mistake;
- when you don’t like doing what they ask you to do and
- when they want to give you their comments or suggestions

- When I have given the wrong answers during recitation I want to be treated just like normal because we are only human it is normal to have a mistake.
- When I'm expressing my opinion, I just want them to listen to me as a sign of respect.
- When I'm giving suggestions in a group work, I just want them also to listen to me and decide if my suggestion is possible or not.
- When I commit mistake, I want them to help me correct my mistakes instead to laugh me.
- When I don't want what they are asking me to do, I will say to them that I don't want it and just accept my decision.
- When they want to give to me their comments or suggestions, I will just listen to them as they also listen to me when I'm also giving my comments and suggestions.

b. Considering the given ideas on how to treat others with respect, what can you commit to yourself in terms dealing with the MCL community: teachers, students, employees, security, maintenance/janitors and canteen personnel?

- Inside the MCL community and even in other community, I will respect them properly and I will not do unnecessary things that will hurt them. I will respect them as I respect my self.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Journal 3

1. If you will have an outstanding vitue, what would you want it to be? Why?
- If I will be given a chance to have an outstanding virtue it will be self-confidence. I choose self confidence because I want to be proud of what I have and learn to trust myself instead of criticizing what can I do. It will also help me to be better person by doing better things with confidence.

Journal 2

1. How was your 1st week at MCL?
- My first week in MCL was great. I have found my new friends and its good to be in this school because the place is beautiful and the people are very kind. The facilities are very hi-tech that's why it is good to be here.
2. Describe your professors. What are traits do you find positive in each one?
- The professors of MCL are kind and approachable those traits helps us to listen well to their lessons. They are also beautiful and handsome professors.
3. Describe your blockmates/section. What do you think are the strengths and weakness of your section?
- Are section is the best for us because we are always together and help each other in assignments and sometimes in quizzes. I cannot tell our weakness right now because we are like a one big happy family.
4. How do you find your courses? Which ones do you think are easy and which ones do you think are a little bit challenging? Why?
- Some of our subjects are easy while some are hard. For me my favorite subject is values because In this subject I can relax and properly share my thoughts to my classmates while Humanities is a little bit challenging subject because we need to use our logic and critical thinking and I find it hard.
5. Do you have any adjustment you feel you are going through or must go through? What are they? Cite examples in terms in your academics, emotions, and social environment
- I need to adjust from highschool life to college life in terms of academics because I must study harder. The lessons in college is more difficult than highschool and I must be serious now because it is hard to catch up lessons when you are not listening.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Journal 1

1. How does Values Education work to your advantage?
- Values and Education can work into my advantage because it will teach me the good values that will help me to become a better person and to success.
2. After you have processed your first few experience at MCL, in what way this will help you achieve successful adjustment in college?
- Being friendly helps me to become close to my classmates, in that way it helps me to adjust highschool to college life. I can communicate and socialize with them, so if I'm getting confuse in some lessons, I'll just approach them and help me to my problem.
3. Assignment: Analyze your readiness for college using the checklist "Making Transition from High School in College?
- There are some differences between college and high school. In that case, I must study hard and change my negative actions and thoughts to become mature and ready for a college life.