Gospel. June 4-11

1. When I arrived at this school, I knew nothing about the teaching style professors have here. I have self confidence myself because I knew that I came from UP Rural and that I am not like just any ordinary student. I learned that many of my classmates are honors of their own respective schools. Some of my friends are even the third honor of their batch. Some rank 5^th and some rank 2^nd in their schools. After hearing their stories, I felt ashamed of my rank. I am a lazy student who only reviews his notes 30 minutes before the final exams. I got a rank of 65 over 120 students in our batch. I lost my self confidence after that. After some quizzes I observed that my grades are not that far from them. Sometimes I even top quizzes or become 1 of the top scores. Although sometimes I flunked quizzes especially in compro (explained by my no-study habit), I still got decent grades for a student that doesn’t grab a book every night.

This is when I proved to myself that despite of my very low ranking at my previous school, I can still cope up with the top students of different schools. I regained my self confidence (but not boasting), and proved to my self the words that our previous teachers told us that I once not believed in to: “Hindi basta basta ang mga galing sa UP Rural. Kahit hindi kayo nag e-excel dito, kayang kaya nyo mag honor pag-dating sa ibang school.”

2. It is weekend and I have only one assignment to do. I did it first thing in the morning and played computer games. When my dad woke up, he saw me playing and scolded me saying that I only played computer games and not studied even once. I started to felt bad. I know that did my priorities beforehand. I said to myself: “Minsan na nga lang ako mag-aral, tapos hindi pa nila makikita. Tapos sakin pa magagalit.” I wanted to say to him how I feel and how he misjudged me wrongly. But I hesitated, I know I did the right thing and I need not to say it to him. I stopped playing and just watch television. I know that I am right and does not need to be scolded.