Dedication.

I remember a time in our class back in the Philippines when we are so misbehaved that our teacher shouted and we all kept quiet for we thought that she's going to punish us or something and she continued "Do you ever guys knew the priceless gift given by your parents to you besides your life? It is a gift where no one else can give you except your parents and you should start appreciating it. And it is education."

At first I ignored this statement my teacher told us but as I mature enough to realize what life really is, I come to think that she was right, that statement is always right. I cannot imagine the hard work and sacrifices that my parents went through just for their children to have a good life which they are still giving us until now, and I appreciate it. That is why I want to repay them by using that gift in the best way I can for I know that as they gave it to us, they wanted us to have a bright future. This is also the reason on why I want to pursue civil engineering as my future career. I want to design and build them a house where we can live together and worry about nothing. I want to work hard as my Mom and Dad did so that they wouldn't have to worry about working anymore and just enjoy their life like having a long vacation. I also have learned that civil engineering have high salaries and I wanted to use that to fulfill what my parents want to do if they have a lot of money, and that is to travel different places around the world. This is the only thing I can think of to repay them. They have risked their own lives for us, time will come and I must do the same thing for them. They are the reason behind my everything after all.

<3 my mom & dad

Time to take life seriously.

As I grew up, I never thought that life would get tougher and tougher each day. When I was still a child, I can still remember how easy life was because children are supposed to play and enjoy their life as a small kid am I right? I think of this as a fact for playing is the only thing I did because there are still no more than important things to worry about like money except schooling. But studying is not why I came to school every morning I wake up when I'm still a kid because I have no other way of playing with my friends rather than meeting up in school for our places are a bit far to each other. We used to play every Filipino street games as long as we know the rules and how to play them. Some of these games are:

Patintero

the following link is the instructions on how to play the game

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Filipino_Games/patintero.htm

Tumbang Preso

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7141664/Tumbang-Preso

My very own favorite

Taguan or hide and seek

In playing these games, age is not an exception.

Being a kid is not bad once in a while, it is just a matter of time. Life is not design to be that way. We also need to struggle for us to pursue and learn. That is what I'm trying to do right now. Nowadays, I've been struggling about so many things. Grades, money, family problems, conflict between friends, and I could also include the weather here in Calgary which is winter. But my grades is my priority right now for I am hoping to graduate from high school in the next coming months. Right now, my grade is sitting so close to equilibrium in my ELA class for English here is quite different from what I experienced in the Philippines. Here in Calgary, this subject focuses more on grammar and reading comprehensions where they are only a small part on which our English subject focuses back in the Philippines. Back there, we study about the different components of the English language,how to figure them out in a statement and how to use them such as nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, figures of speech and so on. That is the main difference which gave me struggles to adopt the English language here in Calgary which I will do my very best to win this game.