The Letter of Hope and Acceptance

                     The letter I read is about a man who reveals himself as a homosexual to his mother after he finds a safe haven in a city called San Francisco where they city accepts all. The letter then revealed why he didn't told the told the truth earlier but still showed respect and love to the one that gave all her hard work in and to know that he doesn't need to lie anymore. The way I read this letter I felt what he feels when writing it because he can finally tell the truth, and that feeling can be the same for other people like us when we feel isolated like Michael here.

                     We all get that feeling of isolation when the people around us gave us that look of disgust and aggressiveness to stay away from us or drive us away from our home just because we have something that they don't like like a weird gender or a disorder that only irritates a lot or just plain hatred over something either we or they had done. But there will be a time when we can overcome that problem and go the next objective. While reading the letter, I could pictured what world Michael is living in, as he lives in an era where homosexuality was either a new thing or where it was in the way of being a kind of disorder already or something that wasn't understandable back then, which I think it would be around the 1900s.

                     In the end of it, all we can do is to try to help a person who's got the same situation as Michael if we ever a person like him in real life. We can tell them that everything's gonna be all right, because they never knew how many people will support him or her in the darkest of times in their life. As we are just human beings with very unique and different sets of likes and dislikes, like being a bisexual like him and whenever we like things we can't even explain properly. As long as they're alright with and the rules of being a proper human being, we can all accept it in peace give love to those that deserved it.

Essence of Family Day in My Teenage Life

                     

                      Family Day is the day of the year when our family is brought together in our school for one big culminating activity here in ACT. Every year it would be different, like the theme which was tribal this year,  color of our booth and shirts, and obviously the grade level because this year is my last grade in junior high.

                   The day started off as always when its family day, it starts off at 1 p.m. with a mass to kick it off the afternoon. Then we had a Sinulog festival dance with all the grade levels with our props which were candles. After that we managed to settle down with ourselves in the booths and my other family members manage to came along as well and joined in separate booths with the others. We then had few selfie with each other like this one we had.   

                     After that, came with different tribal dances from different grade levels, ours was about two rival tribes finding a way to find peace between each other. During it I felt pretty useless because of the fact that I didn't anything except holding their stuff and watch from start to finish which was pretty entertaining to watch. After the entertaining dances from the other grades, it was finally time for dinner. Each one of us picked a place to settle down and eat comfortably. Don't mind the face I was making...

                    After the dinner my family needs to quickly go home a bit early so that we could feed our dogs. Sadly I would never know what happens after so I ask what happen to my classmates so here's what they said. They said there was a raffle draw which I forgot there was one a minute ago which happen that there was bet between my classmates and our science teacher which we won by winning the raffle, and the final was the awardings as to the best tribal dance which to my surprise was my batch, the grade 10, for 4 straight years my batch was winning the dances as one hell of an achievement. as for the experience, it was a good time to remember for the last few months of grade 10.

CAT camping

                       May camping sa lahat grade 10 sa paaralan sa linggo noon, at may pagkakaiba sa aking opinyon ito. Dahil may pangyayari ito na buhayin kaming lahat sa ACT campus, nagluluto ng mga pagkain sa mga iba't ibang platoon at naglaro sa mga gawain at katulad ng totoong camp, lagpasan hanggang sa gabi. Sa harap ng gabi, may mga huling laro para mabilis ang oras. Sa pagkatapos ng hapunan at maligo, magtipon kami lahat sa quadrangle ayon sa mga commanders namin.

                       Sa malapit ng hatinggabi, nakapikit tayo habang may mga ibang tao ay lumipa sa lahing lugar sa campus at kalmado ang lguar dahil walang tao ay makipag-usap dahil sa sabi sa mga facilitators ito. At sa pagsalit sa mga facilitators ng tanggapin sa ating panyo, ang unang kita ay mga klaso ko at ang ilaw mula sa buwan. Kausapin kami tatlo hanggang nagtiyak tayo ng humiga at manood sa langit para aabot na ang oras. Pagkatapos, nagsunog ang mga facilitators ng malaking bonfire sa gitna at natipon ang mga klaso at ako para malapit ang init. Sa lapit ko sa bonfire, iisip ko sa mga panahon na may masamang ito at aalam ako ay may sa nakarran ito at nagbalik ako sa aking grupo ito. At sa wakas nagharap ko para tutulog ako.

                       May sunod araw ito at naghanda lahat muli para luluto ng agahan. Pagkatapos ay may awarding ceremony namay maraming klaso ko ay kukuha ng mga awards ito. para makatapos ang camping, may group photo ito para tandaan na may nangyari ito. Sa wakas, may mbilis nakalimutan na may tandaan ito dahil sa pagbabalik ginamit ng mga gadgets namin at mga pagkain sa mula sa mga mall. Pero ang mga memorya iat ay hindi bilis nga kalimutan dahil may panahon ay siguro ng pinakahuling ito.

Bakit Nanghuhusga ang mga Tao sa Kapwa?

               May mga tao ngayon, tulad mula sa Pilipinas, ay malaking nanghuhuasga sa mga pangyayari sa Social Media at mga kaibigan nila. May kontrobersidad na artikulo sa mga balita dahil sa paghuhusga. At may mga problema dahil sa kilos sa mga aksyon sa tao ay magsimula sa unang panahon. Ang nanghuhusga sa mga tao ay karaniwang aksyon sa mga nagreklamo. Ang pinakamalaking problema ay bakit ginawa sila at paano ang paraan ang gawa nila. 

                      Ang paraan na may karaniwang bunga ay para kukuha ng pag-aasikaso. May mga tao ay gusto ito dahil sa kagalakan ng may lahat ay magpokus sa sarili, o para mabuti ng bunga, may tulong para sa problema. Ang halimbawa ay mga tumutol sa mga bansa gaya ng Hong Kong at sa mga aktivista para sa alin man sa mga hayop, kalikasan, o mapanatili sa isang batas. Ang lahing paraan ito ay dahil sa may personalidad na aaway, ang halimbawa ito ay ang nangyari sa programa,"Raffy Tulfo In Action." Ito ang pinili ko dahil sa walang nag-iisip ang magulang sa bata na apektohan ito na walang respektohan para sa guro ito. Ito ang may halimbawa na para sa personalidad na gawa. At ang pinakamalaking ito ay ang 30th SEA GAMES na insidente. Ang mga tao sa nilang bansa ay nagkasamang reklamo sa mga paghanda sa seremonya. At sa huli, pagsimula sa mga laro at maraming panalo sa SEA GAMES sa Pilipinas, mabilis sa bago ang mga pilipino at nagsuporta nila na "Proud to be a Filipino." Ito ay may halimbawa na 'toxic' na personalidad na mataas ang epekto ito sa nanghuhusga.

                     Sa huli, kung maghumatol sa isang o maraming tao o isang organisasyon sa nilang ginawa, alamin ito na anong buti sa iyo at iyong magpokus ito, dahil kailangan may respekto sa iyong opinyon at iisip ito kung paano magsabi sa Social Media. Para may maraming tao ay maglabanan sa iyong opinyon sa platform ito. At minsan hindi ikaw at iyong labanan ay palaging tama at kailangan tumaklas sa sarili para dumating ang pangunahing ideya sa kapwang gilid at sumang-ayon sa parehong opinyon o ideya.

"Learning at Play"

               "What you learn at play, you'll carry them through life"

               Reading this quote would make me agree more than ever because it would literally means that you use what you know from you past experiences to to use them again at times where you need them. There are times where you find yourself in a situation like in a sports match or an argument or a something else where you just think to yourself that you know something from before and you somehow have a bigger chance that you might win at something? That's your mind saying that you've had an experience that helped you by remembering it mostly to use it in the future situations.

               While reading this quote from the rest of the quotes my teacher gave us, a nostalgic vibe hit me and put my head in flashbacks before of my past experiences. To explain this much more, you put yourself in a stasis where you're going through previous memories and finding the right doors that will get you back out directly of your conscious and use it directly to face in your situations. That's what I would feel when I was reading this.

               Tell yourself, what do you do when finishing something with full determination? You would always try again and again to finish your task. That's what the quote tells you about and remember those times where you can use that knowledge to be wise enough to solve them easier. Every famous person would try, and try, and try again until they've perfected their craft like the common folk would always try to do everyday, to be a better version of themselves of their actions.

               "What you learn at play," which first defines as what you have learn in your participations, games, lectures, test and other stuffs which connects to the next line, "you'll carry them through life." Which reminds them hat their experiences are very valuable and they keep it at the back of one's mind and use it for the future . This would apply to everyone who tried their very best to finish what they wanted to finish too.

               This quote would relate to a child's curiosity to their first discovery of new things they first find and have enough determination to know more about it. The next would be inventors, workers, the common man, iconic artist and etc. because what they've gone through just to get this high in their career for their achievements and finding relaxation to the fact that they've completed through trial and error and though some might hit straight to rock bottom, all that's left is the diamond in the rough.

               In the end, it's all about passing your knowledge unto others so that they would know it from your teaching and they would also become wiser as well. When the time comes, help others whom you can stand them up on their own two feet and go longer into the long walk to success.

Incidents in Greek mythology

Paris' Choices

         The Judgement of Paris is an important event in Homer's Iliad where what he picks will be the cause of the Trojan War.

         At first when I read it the first time I didn't knew it would the domino that will fall into a series of unfortunate events just because he picked Aphrodite. I mean just a realisation that he's the one that started the problem then in the end, it was the selfishness of the goddesses that did him in.

        Therefore, the judgement from him would be a lot different if he had chosen on of the other two.

Odysseus and Polyphemus

      This was when Odysseus and his men were stuck on an island with the cyclops Polyphemus. 

        It was an epic moment when they managed to blind the Polyphemus by a wooden stake in the eye. But then Polyphemus had one last chance when he thrown a giant boulder at them while they're escaping but failed in the end.

         In the end, he escape with trouble due to the cyclops being Poseidon's son by large waves and storms.  

Odysseus' arrival in Ithaca

       Once he finally arrived to Ithaca, he went in disguised and spying in the palace as he saw a room full of suitors for his queen Penelope.

        And do you know what happens next?, he straight up killing every last one of them with his signature bow with the help of his son Telemachus. It would be an epic scene in a movie.

In the end, he got home and he went out again for other adventures

The Trojan Horse

         This was another plan made by Odysseus as he put many strong soldiers inside the horse while the main army retreated leaving only Sinon to convince the Trojans that this was a gift for their surrender.

         When the Trojans put it inside in the dead of night, They burst out while the main army came back from the seas and ambush them which is one bloody scene to imagine in a film.

         To conclude, they show outsmarting the enemy and finding ways on how to defeat the in the art of war.

References:

• Judgement of Paris. Retrieved November 4, 2019, from https://www.theoi.com/Olympios/JudgementParis.html
• Odysseus and the cyclops. Retrieved November 4, 2019, from https://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/odysseus-and-cyclops-myth/
• The Homecoming of Odysseus. Retrieved November 4, 2019, from https://www.storynory.com/the-homecoming-of-odysseus/
• The Trojan Horse. Retrieved November 4, 2019, from https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/The_Myths/The_Trojan_Horse/the_trojan_horse.html//

The Trojan War

    

            The Trojan War is one the most iconic battles in Homer's Iliad. Speaking of war, wars have been raged many times in the world for many different reasons like territory, treasures or hatred. when a war ends it ends with either the surrendering of one faction or the total domination of the other. When you first thought about what can you learn about war, you first think of bloodshed and cost of your actions, but there's more to that thought. As a soldier, you can write your journal so that it can be saved as a story for others to read. This lesson is about life, as you can reflect on the people who participated in the war and live enough to tell the tale about it. And there is so much to it as well like the experience, appreciation, luck, torture, punishments, survival of the fittest, etc. Now, going back to the Iliad.

              To this day, we don't know yet whether the Trojan War actually happened or not because of tiny fragments of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Some Greek literature and art depicts the event that showed thing that would possibly happened in real life, except for the supernatural parts. Some say that Homer's story is mostly historically true parts and fictional because some of them were inspired by the different sieges by the Myceneaen Greeks during the Bronze Age. In the end, I would say he used real events and possibly locations to portray his story better in a way it would be imaginable to remember.

                Many of the conflicts in the war often ended with one side victorious by death or surrender. AND ALL OF IT STARTED BECAUSE OF A SIMPLE QUARREL. 'Scuse me, the quarrel being who gets the golden apple between the goddesses Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera. Specifically, they're arguing on who gets the apple so Zeus summoned Paris, the prince of Troy, to decide who gets the apple. So he picked Aphrodite and she rewarded him with Helen which started the war. I mean, you can just solved it peacefully without Paris by giving it back to Eris and shoo her away or talked it out properly as Paris and not letting him choose as who gets the apple. In real life situations though, if this happens between your friends or family, just talk it out so that both sides would agree like spend some time together and accepting one's opinion.

               In the end, its not Paris' fault for getting Helen as a reward. War has nothing good to return to you. War was for nothing in the end. The gods and goddesses are mostly selfish for their own desires. And the last being always think through the arguments and achieve moral relations from both factions.