We are all sinners

Truth is, we are all sinners. We are not perfect and we all make mistakes. Mistakes that are done accidentally and mistakenly or sins we do on purpose. We do a lot of sinful things sometimes we dont even realize we’re doing it. By this we are what we call sinners. In reality this doesn’t mean we wont make it to heaven and that leads to a different subject. We can change ourselves and prevent one another of doing the bad things. But in some point of life, as time goes by we will always be doing the wrong things by the cause of different reasons, such as peer pressure, depression, and other personal reasons. This is just the way life is.

What I need from my parents

As for me the most that I need from my parents is attention and support. I need a lot of attention so that I know Im not alone in the family. Since I’m the only girl sometimes I feel like I don’t get the enough attention especially from my mom because she has to pay attention my other brothers.

            I also need a lot of more support from my parents to know that no matter what I do they are always cheering me on because sometimes without support it leads to big let downs. I need these to be able to do what I love doing and knowing that my parents are here to support me and are proud of what I do rather than not caring about anything at all.

1. What do I want to learn more about my culture?

 One thing I am very interested to learning about my culture are the superstitions. According to my research, Philippines has a lot of superstitions and some actually believes in it and even some says the superstitions have happened to them. I want to be able to go back and find out where these superstitions came from and who started it, also if it’s possible, find out if there’s anyone who had experienced any of it. I think that would be really cool.

Another thing I want to learn about Philippine culture is the Philippine society. There are things such as family, respect, community, wealth and beauty, death customs in the Philippines, and communication. I would like to find out every pieces of in formations about these subjects just to see how everything started off. Such as respect, in my country, respect is very important and I think it would be cool to find out the other things that people use to do to show respect in the past that we kids in this generation don’t do anymore.

The last main thing I am interested in learning about for my culture are their celebrations. They have celebrations such as national holidays, birthdays, and even native holidays. I think it’s good to go back in the past and find out information about how people celebrated these types of holidays or special events now that lately a lot of things have changed from the past. People probably didn’t use to celebrate one’s birthday as much as we do now in this century.

I think that it would be really nice to find out the things that stand behind these questions and facts. I want to know a lot of things from my background just to be familiar with it and sometimes if i have kids, I can be able to share these things and make sure they are familiar to it.

 
FUN FACT: In the
Philippines, compared to the buses here in
America, they use Jeepneys as public transportation. Sometimes when the jeepney gets filled people and some aren’t able to fit in the seats, they go in the back of the jeep and hold on to the bar where the opening is to go inside the ride. People are risking from getting hurt just to be able to get a ride

Success for me is achievement. It can be from the goals you make, or even from the little things you do that you can achieve at. Success can also be from what you recieve after achieving like, money, prices, awards etc., represents success.

The three aspects of my Filipino culture that i would put for a time capsule are; food, a book of my language, and clothes.

I would pick food because a lot of people from around the world are usually familiar with our types of cooking, but also most of the time we get compliments that our type of foods are very tasty and good. Most of my friends love our famous dish called “Adobo”. Its a type of chicken and pork dish, it can be either one.

Another one i picked is probably a book with examples of our languages. I think it’d be really cool for the people that will get these stuff that probably has no idea about languages that we speak. Also it’d be nice to share it to them to give them idea of how we talked in my country. And to some people it would be really nice to know that our language also has mixed spanish words in it so some can be familiar to it too.

The third thing i chose for a time capsule is a clothes. I love clothes and i think a lot of people should do too because it can really express yourself a lot by it even without words. In my country we have this traditional type of apparrel where most of the time it is worn only for weddings, feast, or any other special occasions. We call it “Barong Tagalog”. It is made of jusi clothes. It’s kind of itchy most of the time but a lot of old people likes it

REFLECTiVE BL0G ON THE 0UTSiDERSS.

This whole experience working with Canada was really something i learned a lot from. It taught me how to work with someone miles and miles away from me and still be able to do my task. Even though i had to face some bumpy roads through the whole experience, i did learn how to collaborate in my ways. I met a lot of people with different insights, i found out a lot of things from their country and their outlook on things. It was a really great experience for me.

-maria

FR!END$H!P

This Chapter was basically about Friendship. It was when Ponyboy got the letter from Jonny saying all the stuff about he was okay with dying and that it was good that he liked sunsets cause that was gold about him and such. he was saying how much he cared for them so it did show some friendship in those chapters.

F3AR

I would describe this chapter as a fear chapter because it was the part of the story where the rumble starts and i guess there was some kind of fear in both groups of people, Socs and Greasers. Also it was the chapter where jonny died and everyone was devastated and also showed fear that night where Dally and Ponyboy was in the hospital and they were scared to find out that Johnny was dying so they tried to keep him alive by telling him they won the rumble and such.

FR!END$HIP

In chapter 7 & 8 i would dedicate the word friendship to that part of the story because it was basically the part where everybody sees everybody again. jhonny and ponyboy goes back to their place and basically everything goes back to normal. Ponyboy gets along with his big brother again, he also comes to the doctor and visits Jhonny and for me it kinda represents something about friendship the fact that all them supported each other specially that everyone found out about what Jonny and Ponyboy did to the Socs before they ran away. This chapter was basically the part where it all comes down to protecting each other and starting up the rumble and telling each other that we’re not gonna lose we’re all gonna win this together and such.

$URV!VAL

In chapter 5 & 6, you will recognize it as a surviving chapter of the story. I say this because of the fact that when Jhonny and Sodapop came back in the church along with Dallas and they saw it burning, Jhonny went in and saved the kids that was left behind inside church and so did Ponyboy followed. Not only that they gave the kids chances to survive but they also made themselves out of the burning church alive. And that is why for me it is a surviving chapter.