Wednesday, 4 April 2007

Being taught on KYSD

Being a student teacher for me is very difficult task for me and for all who have experienced it already. But being taught by a classmate during the “Know Your School Day” event is also difficult because it is to hard to understand the student teacher especially if he/she doesn't know the subject matter. But as you go on, you will find it fun especially when you see your friends in front of the class. For those who applied to a position, of course they had a great experience because they experienced how teaching is, its difficulties, and its fun stuffs. They also experienced how teachers feel during discussions and how it feels if they have really naughty students. I did not apply to any position so I didn’t have the chance to experience how teachers feel while they are teaching in front of students. Though, being taught by my fellow students is still a great experience for me.
Being taught by a fellow student is really a great experience. Having students teach fellow students really helps in some ways. There is a really greater interaction if students teach their fellow students. Students being taught are not that scared to ask questions to the student teaching because it’s their fellow student and they’ve been close friends because they are staying in one classroom and good friends have a great interaction with each other. Of course, if there is a great interaction, the students being taught will learn and understand the lessons easily and fast.
It is also helpful in the way that the teachers teaching are about our age and they know what students like during discussions and what they don’t like during discussions. Of course, teenagers really like to have fun. So, our student teachers made some games for us and of course the games are connected to the lessons. They also made the discussions fun, and not boring by making some jokes, and other fun stuffs. I really don’t want to get in a boring class. It really makes me sick. The students teaching us know how it feels when you are in a boring class because I know that they are experiencing that sometimes. So, the students teaching us made those games and other fun stuffs for us to enjoy the discussions and that really made me have some great fun!
Aside from having great fun, I also learned some new lessons from our discussions and I also learned some new teaching styles to use during discussions and I’m sure it will be a great help for me in the future. I also found out who among my classmates have a future of being a great teacher someday and I found few of them, but they are not that good yet. They also serve as an inspiration for me of being a great teacher someday because honestly, I really don’t know how to teach. I’m not that good in teaching. But I know that I will develop my skills in teaching and they will serve as my inspiration for now.
The best part during the event is the receiving of the awards. Receiving an award is really nice. Of course, all the students who taught us during the event received their own awards and I am really happy for them. Although I did not receive any certificate as an award, I still received a very important award. It is the experience of being taught by a fellow student.
I don't know if I can also be one of the student teacher for the next year because I'm shy to talk in front of your friends especially in front of your crush.

Reaction on "love is a fallacy"

The story is very long, very long yet it is very meanigfull. “Love is a Fallacy” is one of the best love stories I have ever read in my 14 year life. I really had a hard time understanding the story because of it's unfamiliar terms to me. But by reading it deeply, it makes me understand it much better and it makes me like the story so much. It talks about one reality in life, when you fall in love ,you are ready to give up everything you own. You will sacrifice your life for the one you love.

As I read the story,I really appreciated the main character. He must really be a nice,kind and sensitive. He did everything for the girl and choose to spend the rest of his life just for that girl he loved. That what we men should to the one you love!.But it still ends up that the girl choose the main character's friend over him,and the worst thing is that Polly choose Petey over him just because he had a raccoon coat. She only liked him just because of that material thing that made him belong to the “Tough Guy” in school, what a dumb reason,right? (But that's just my point )...But how can she choose Petey over this guy who did everything for her and was so true to his feelings? The guy who choose to be with her than Petey, the one she barely even know most especially when it talks about sincerity of love.

For me, love cannot bemeasure on the money and the things he will give to you. If he gives you flowers and chocolates or not. If he spends a lot on your dates and always treat you for a dinner and an outing. But love? It's how sincere the person is, of how a person is ready to sacrifice his/her happiness to the one he/she love. Most especially? It's not important for me if “my girlfriend” is famous and popular and is known to be one of the known girls, who got the cutest look and used to wear those cute bracelets,earings and other girl stuffs,but what matters most is that i know she is worth to be my girlfriend and I love her not just because of any material things but by the real her without those factors that makes her a“popular girl!”

I really don't have an idea why the story is entitled as “Love is a Fallacy”. Fallacy is defined as erroneousness, an invalid reference or the quality of being deceptive. But is love really a false motion? Maybe when people say that they are not ready yet for that love stuffs and they have their other priorities. But you never choose the person you fell in love to. Most especially you'll never know when that happens and why that happens. So, when love comes your way, you can never avoid it and especially love can never be a false motion because falling in love is beyond ourimaginations.Well,in some points of our everyday lives,things happen for a reason just when she knocks my door and let her in for she has a reason knocking my own door.

The story is reflecting on you. Sacrifice is the key so that the one you love will also love you.

Sunday, 1 April 2007

What a UP student is not

UPian! Many people say that UP students are bright, smart, intelligent, and so on. In fact when people see a UP student, they expect a lot . Maybe, they think UP is the highest school in the Philippines and that UP students are the masters of the universe and that UP students are head of all. That’s a big mistake! UP students are not the head and masters of the world. They are just ordinary students trained well and taught well. Yes, we are a little advanced but that doesn’t make UP students head of other students in other schools. Maybe they just think that way because they don’t know what UP students really are.

UP students for me, are naughty. Yes, we are nauhgty. I can say that because many of my schoolmates, including me, always breaking the rules. Even on simple rules, they are not following it just like on forming straight line during flag ceremony. They just can't follow it. Almost all second year boys don't like to have haircut every month so we are always included in the list. UP students are always debating for what they are thinking is right aside ffrom just taking the truth.

Up students are also cheaters. I can say that we arecheaters because if we have assignments, we don’t do it at home. We do it at school so that we can copy the correct answers of our classmates. Up students are also dead liners. Yes. It is true. Whenever we have projects, there are just few students who pass their projects ahead. Most of them pass their work during the deadline and some even pass their projects days after the deadline. In fact there are also students just don't pass projects.

Another is that, UP students are not good in all subjects. In fact, many of us in our classroom are struggling to get a high grade in Mathematics which is the most difficult subject when you are in UP. This really is a hard subject for us. There are also students who are struggling in English. Not all UP students are good in speaking English. Many of us don’t know much in speaking English but we are still practicing and we are doing our best in order to develop our speaking skills. There are also many students especially in the second year who are struggling in the subject, Social Science. Bad to say but it is true. When I was in elementary, our social science was very easy but now in UP, it is very hard! I don't know what makes it difficult but it is.

Most of all, UP students are not shameful. In short, we have no shame! In fact, one fourth year student before told me that, if you enter UP, you should have no shame because it has no use. Before, during my elementary years, I am a shameful and silent kind of person and I am ashamed to show what I’m really is but as I entered UP, it seems like my face doubled or maybe tripled! I have slowly developed and got rid of being a turtle hiding in its shell. I now show people what really Allan is and what my real attitude is.

Now, think about it. Do you think UP students are what you are thinking? You better think twice.

summary of Max Schulman's Love Is a Falacy

Love is a Falacy by Max Schulman was so nice. The narrator in the story is logical, keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute, and astute. He is very brilliant and he was only eighteen. He has a room mate, named Petey, who is dumb. He is an emotional type, unstable, impressionable, and worst of all, a faddist.One afternoon, the narrator found Petey lying on his bed with an expression of such distress on his face. The narrator told him not to move and that he will call a doctor. But then, Petey mumbled the word raccoon. The narrator asked him what he is trying to say and he said that he needs a raccoon coat. The narrator asked him why he wants a raccoon coat and he said that raccoon coat are not nice but then he replied that he will do anything just to have a raccoon coat. Then, the narrator thought about Polly. Polly is Petey’s girl. The narrator likes this girl. Polly is a beautiful girl, gracious, and had an ease of bearing but not that smart. But he puts into mind that he can teach Polly about the things that she doesn’t know.Then, the narrator asked Petey if he has a special relationship with Polly but he said that they are not in a relationship but they are meeting sometimes. Then, the narrator got a bag and placed some things in it and he told Petey that he will go home.When he came back to the dormitory, he brought a raccoon coat for Petey. When Petey saw the coat, he was delighted and was very happy and he immediately asked what the payment is if he will have the coat. Then the narrator told him that he will have the coat if he can have Petey’s girl, Polly. Petey replied that he doesn’t agree with him. But not long after, Petey could not stop his self, he really likes the coat. And so, he agreed with the narrator and they made a deal.Then, the narrator immediately asked Polly for a date out. First, he took Polly to eat dinner. After eating, Polly said, “Gee, that was a delish dinner,". Then he took her to a movie. "Gee, that was a marvy movie," she said as they left the theater. And then he took her home. "Gee, I had a sensaysh time," she said as she bade the narrator goodnight.He felt bad and decided to give Polly back to Petey but then he decided to try and teach Polly. He wants to teach Polly how to think. In their next date, he took Polly to the Knoll and Talk. "Oo, terrif," said Polly after hearing that they’re going over to the Knoll and Talk. Polly asked what they will talk about and then he said that they will talk about logic."Logic," he said, clearing his throat, "is the science of thinking. Before we can think correctly, we must first learn to recognize the common fallacies of logic. These we will take up tonight."He taught Polly about fallacies and cited some examples but at first, Polly was confused and did not understand but in the last kind of fallacy, she was able to think and answer correctly. This fallacy was about “Poisoning the Well”.After that night, the narrator decided to ask Polly’s decision to go steady with him. But in every thing he said, Polly was able to answer him a fallacy that he taught her and he was really impressed. But Polly said that she will not go steady with him. She told him that she will go steady with Petey. Then the narrator compares his self to Petey. He said that he is brilliant and Petey is not but Polly told him that he is poisoning the well. The narrator then asked why she chooses Petey and she said that "He's got a racoon coat."