The Flood that won't let Go

June, July, August...I can count the months, years and ages of agony with the wrath i receive each year of being a Teacher.Maybe, this is my reward and one of the greatest challenges I have. Testing my patience all the way to the wasteland of the dreams I built with my students who stayed with me each year in this forsaken,and hated classroom at the far end of the ground floor of the second year building of Mandaue City Comprehensive National High School- Annex Campus.

Another school year and counting...it is always a nightmare! I don't want to wake up if this dream/nightmare haunts me until the end of my days as a teacher. Throughout the course I bleed, and each year of sacrifice leaps the hearts of my students; leaving the room with dreadful memories like dengue and sanitation... scared and scarred them as they say goodbye to the "swimming pool room".

But mind you, the room where I stayed for nearly twelve years taught us a lot of lessons...and even built principles and life- changing values that have/had made me and my students realized; that Life is like living in a room full of water that cleanses and freshens us up every time we get Dirty....

Life's Reflections1

The Man Who Thinks He Can
If you think you're beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't,
It's almost a cinch you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you've lost;
For out in the world we find
Success being with a fellow's will;
It's all in the state of mind.If you think you're outclassed, you are;
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself
Before you can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late,
the one who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.

Food for Thought: "The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions." -- Bishop Mandell Creighton

This is what I always expect to my students and anybody who is interested to learn.A continuous asking of questions; because you'll never get tired of learning.Learning is Life and it is the source of man's quest for that elusive thing he constantly in search for to make life worth living...it is what we called as Happiness.

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My First Day In School

June 08, 2008

Another school year opens... and for Mandaue City Comprehensive National High School, all systems go!!! Classrooms were cleaned, facilities were checked, schedules were set and minute details were all taken cared of.
I am sure my students are ready to face another challenging year of their so called "first day high"... As a teacher for almost twelve years, students, parents and my co- teachers have their ways of telling you what I am inside the classroom.
The teacher turned disciplinarian is always mistaken as the Terrorist inside the classroom.No, I am not. It is just a stereo type thing on how I manage my class. I lay down the rules and it is up to the student on how she/he conceives it; I am always fascinated the uniqueness of each being inside the four walls of my classroom...hungry for that quest for knowledge and some are just there in their seats; the minds are somewhere in their respective fantasy/dreamlands...
Wishful thinking, you might consider it, but don't do it inside my class! For I mean business! and I believe that those brains capable of being filled with knowledge and ideals are sure way capable of coming in contact with Alzheimer's, so students...find ways to cure it, ok?
Fill those tummies with proper nutrition, breakfast is the most important meal of the day! That's the basic thing to do before coming to school. Good grooming and healthy hygiene too.
Well... let's get to know each other better by doing your first assignment online...Follow the instructions! Web blogging is a way to open, and expressing your self in a very democratic manner of interactions and communication using the English Language. So, feel free to express them here...all you need to do are the ff:
1. Create your own blog through blogger.com
2. You must have an e-mail account before you can have your own blog.
3.log on to http://blogger.com
4.Post your first assginment,title it with My First day in School
4.1 Introduce yourself,like an autobiography/slumbook kind of a write up.Whichever way you consider it creative in telling us about you, more points will be given.
4.2Tell us your expectations...about: Yourself as a student,new teachers, new/old school, new year level, new subjects to take/ your new adviser, policies/rules and regulations...
4.3 Post your comments about the posts i have posted here in our blog: http://communicatinginenglish2.blogspot.com
5. Always visit your blogs and never forget to leave comments in our official blog.Refer to the URL/ address found on 4.3
6. Write your weekly Journals in your blogs...I'll check them everyday; of course you get your points every updates/ write-ups you'll be making.
7. Happy blogging.