INFORMAL THEME 2, BLOG 2

SEMESTRAL BREAK: A BREAK FOR RELIEF NOT FOR WORK

As all of us know, semestral break is the time within October and November in which we are free to bond together with our family – living or not. It is also the time wherein we commemorate with the dead by visiting their graves and offering prayers. Students usually likes this time for it is a week in which they can maximize their time to relax from the long work they have done after months. Each of us has our own ways to maximize a week or two of semestral break. Ways to be in glee not only for ourselves and everybody.

                Being a student, I myself induced in a week of semestral break. It was quite short for there are lots of assignments to be accomplished. But then it is a job well done! I started the week by doing my assignments which lasted for about four days. Included with the tasks that I need to accomplish was reading the first part of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, the Inferno. The book was excellent in which it narrates the travel of Dante and Virgil through hell.

                Since the semestral break was in between October and November, All Souls day and All Saints day is in the scope. Yearly, our family prepares food on the day of November first. It was like a small feast which was also considered as a family reunion. We also took time in buying candles and flowers which will be offered to the graves of our dead loved ones. We usually don’t stay up very long in the cemetery for our grandmother doesn’t like to. After the day of the Souls, All Saints Day was an important day for me, for it was my mother Birthday! Sadly, we haven’t enjoyed the day for there are classes. But then I greeted my mother just before I went to school.

                I need to maximize my time not only for myself but also for my family. If I have enough time, I can do more things for my family than I usually do. Having a break is not bad hence it can relief your stress and be relaxed. But, too much break will not be good for anybody. It is because anything which is excess is bad, everything should only be in the right time and the right amount.

INFORMAL THEME 3, BLOG 3

Scouting: a bridge to self development

Do a good turn daily, the indulging motto of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP). Meaning, we should do things at its fullest at this time not later or tomorrow. Having this in my mind, I together with my friends joined the Rover’s Vigil at Cavite National Science High School (CNSHS). Together with the theme “Rover Scouts: Creating Peace and Development” we became more delightful to join the said activity. Lots of things spread throughout our minds before the program started; that it will be a night full of thrill and excitement.

            There had been lots of activities. But at first, we had the lecture. The lecture was headed by lots of scout masters one was Scouter Ronaldo Mendoza, a former teacher in CNSHS. Some of the topics were about the characteristics of a scout, scout oath, scout law and the symbols that signify the patches. The lecture lasts for about 7 hours. 7 hours without sleep, just listening and understanding.

            After the very long lecture, at last! Activities! In our first activity we need to blind fold ourselves using a scarf. We are then guided by group and were brought to different parts of the schools one by one. After I removed my blindfold with the signal I was surprised because I was in front of the speech lab! One of the spookiest areas of the school. But then I saw a company nearby then I went there. We then filled up the paper given to us in which we need to write our good and bad traits.

            After it, we burned the paper with our bad traits and kept the paper with our good traits. It was then followed by a spiritual message that helps us realize the importance of our parents. After it we are honored as Rover Scouts. It was very happy because at last we were honored to wear our rover uniforms.

            Once a scout, always a scout a quote in which we carry after the event. In which we seeded in our minds forever.

            

INFORMAL THEME 1, BLOG 1

THE STORY BEHIND THE SCHOOL

            Our school was noted not only for its excellence but also for the stories behind it. Cavite National Science High School (CNSHS) started to acquire glory when it was built in 1981. But before it opened, since it’s in Maragondon which is one of the centers of fight in the late Spanish era, many people had died in the said city. And now, CNSHS was surrounded with mysteries and stories which reflects the past of the school and Maragondon.

            The first was the story in 3 – Nitrogen’s room. It was an ordinary day when they saw it. It was our Filipino class, a typical class in which there is the participation of the students to the class, seat works and quizzes; but that day was different. While we were having our seatwork my two classmates were unconscious; they aren’t comfortable with the surroundings. As students we often turn our backs too look when our adviser where there, I don’t know but it is within us to look if there’s someone at the teachers table. At my classmates surprise there’s a man at the back beside the steel cabinet at the teacher’s table! She was then shocked not knowing what to do. The man looks dull and from the old times. But then she just keep it within her. After the class she immediately told our teacher about it she was surprised when another classmate of mine saw him too! They were advised by our teacher to forget about it telling them that maybe he just wants to tell something.

            Another story was the lady in the Freshmen Building. She often shows up to my classmates, fearing them. This is one story of her…

            One afternoon after our classes, my classmates often wait for her boyfriend to fetch her in one of the stair case near the new 2 – Oxygen room. It was already late but her boyfriend hasn’t fetched her yet but still she waits for him until she fell asleep. When she woke up it was dark already. Being alone, she looks around if someone is there with her, but she was shocked when she saw a lady floating in front of the old 2 – Oxygen room! She doesn’t know what to do at that time but then she decided to go away from that place. There are rumors saying that a former student died in the lady’s restroom in that building in the reason that before she had a quarrel with her best friend and was never resolved causing her not to eat and resulting to her death. And now, some still see her and may her soul be with the glory of God.

            There are still lots of stories that surround the school, the walking priest in the stairs, the man in the speech lab and many more. But let us remember not to meddle with them because they have the world of their own. But why are they still here? It is because some souls are seeking for something or haven’t done something that they want to do when their still alive. We as the living needs to understand their objective, objective to fulfill their mission and not to scare the people.