VIVA VIGAN!

                           

   

        Vigan is unique for having preserved much of its Hispanic colonial character, particularly its grid street pattern and historic urban lay out. Its significance also lies on how the different architectural influences are blended to create a homogenous townscape. Vigan City has a festival, this is to show their unique products and traditions to all people.  

         The Vigan City Fiesta is celebrated yearly during January 25, in honor of St. Paul the Apostle. The metropolitan Cathedral Church, the Vigan's main church, is dedicated to St. Paul.  The Vigan City Fiesta usually lasts for several days.   At present, the festival gathers a lot of locals and tourists  who come to see the presentations they do for the show. Vigan Town Fiesta is composed of arts and crafts exhibit, carnivals, street dancing performances, and other vivacious performances that celebrate the spirit of Vigan’s cityhood. 

         Participants from different provinces in northern region are also sen to compete in the games and activities. This participation makes the Vigan City not only a local event but a national event participated by other local public heads and national officials. 

Source: https://steemit.com/streetphotography/@mojacko/street-dance-longganisa-festival

HAPPY 2020

        

          Usually every New Year, there's always this thing what we called 'New Year's Resolution'. It is a promise that you make to yourself to start doing something good or stop doing something bad on the first day of the year. Many people this time of year will post on their social media 'New Year, New Me!'. Some of us believes it, but most of us don't. Because those promises, most of them will not be fulfilled. And that 'New Year, New Me' thing? It's impossible. Nobody sits there on January 1st and immediately they turn into a new version of themselves. I'm okay with new beginnings and having resolutions for the new year because its like the reset period, but we all know that these changes don't come like a snap, they take time, patience, and hardwork.

          For me, New Year is not just the time we can change ourselves for the better. We can change ourselves to a better version everyday, every mornings we woke up, in short ANYTIME. So if you think that there is something to yourself that you need to change, there is something to your behavior that you need to change, start doing it now. Someday you'll realize that you became a better version of yourself.

Source:https://gifer.com/en/gifs/happy-new-year

Fight for Equality!

                         

 
GAD stands for Gender and Development, which refers to the development perspective and process that is participatory and empowering, sustainable, free from violence, respectful of human rights, supportive of self-determination and actualization of human potentials. This aims to achieve gender equality. This GAD made us realized that women can also do what men can do and women can do something for development, not just a recipients of development. GAD is not just concerned with women, but with the way in which a society assigns roles and responsibilities to both men and women.


Men and women have their differences. We all have our differences. We should accept that. Don’t define us based on our differences. We should change our mindset and start accepting equality.


VAWC stands for Violence Against Women and Children. VAWC includes physical abuse, sexual abuse, mental abuse, threats, harrassments and more. Well, there’s still a lot in this world are abusing women and children. Abusing them has an impact especially to the children because they are just young. VAWC are made to protect and stop women and children from suffering violence. They don’t deserve what you are doing. Learn to love them. Learn to love their weaknesses.


Let’s try to put ourselves in their place, what do you think? It’s too much right? I can’t imagine how painful it is. So, why not make our world a better and safer place for both children and women?


Whatever their gender is, poor or rich, young or old, you should treat them equally.


Sources:http://www.mwendengao.com/2017/09/26/are-you-a-man-looking-to-help-end-violence-against-women-here-are-practical-ways-to-do-so/stop-vaw/

            https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/goa-safest-for-women-delhi-worst-for-education-according-to-new-list-1770417

3rd Reflection

For this 3rd grading, I learned on how to use the Microsoft Front Page or WYSIWYG editor and its parts. It is to make a web pages easier and there is already an html code.  I didn't have too much problems encountered. If there is something that I don't understand, I will just ask my classmates or teacher. So moving on, I will do much better. I hope that I can learn a lot that is something new.

Source: https://unsplash.com/photos/TkEPQPWr2sY

A Season of Love and Laughter

     We are now again celebrating Christmas, the birth of Christ the King. In this month of December, we must remember that our Lord came in this world and sacrifice himself in order to save us from our sins. Celebrating Christmas and reflecting on the lessons he gave us is just a simple way of saying thank you. 

     Christmas is all about giving and sharing, not just the material things but also those that can be felt and appreciate like love. Jesus taught us what a genuine and unconditional love is, so why don't we spread love and forgiveness to others? By doing this, there will be no ill feelings left and all will be happy.

   We all have our way of celebrating Christmas like exchanging gifts, preparing a lot of foods, games, and more. Spending time with your family, relatives, and friends in this season is just perfect. It is also an opportunity to correct actions we aren't proud of in our lives. 

     As Christmas comes nearer, just remember that it's the thought that counts and that love is the most important thing in the world. 

Source: https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/prayer/christmas-prayers-and-blessings.html

Save the Environment, Save the Nature

     Every November is the environmental awareness month. This is to promote awareness and understand the brittleness of our environment. It also helps to let everyone know that we must protect the environment and create a brighter future.

     It is our responsibility to respect and protect our environment. But what's happening right now is the reverse of it. Some people do illegal logging, burning plastics, destroying mountains and more, which causes us having some disasters. Everyone needs to be aware of the result of their actions.

     In order to stop it, we should persuade everyone to start taking care of our environment. Let's start with planting trees, cleaning our surroundings, and throwing our trash into the trash can. We can't promote environmental awareness to others if we don't do it first in ourselves.

Source:https://alison.com/course/introduction-to-environmental-sustainability

Today's Children, Tomorrow's Future

     "Today's children are tomorrow's future." That's true, if we need to preserve our future, then it is our duty to build the future of the children in a right direction.

      For this 2019, they celebrated children's month. The purpose of this is to make all the people aware of giving rights to children. It is their rights to have a happy family, to go to school and learn, to have a child-friendly environment, to get protection from all forms of abuse and violence, and more. 

     We shouldn't let them get hurt. We should take care of them like our own wealth. We shouldn't just leave a child behind without a parent. We shouldn't let them wander around. We shouldn't let them to have a job in such a young age. Instead, we must give what they really need and deserve, which is love, care, and protection.

Source:https://citytoday.news/todays-children-are-tomorrows-citizens/

Keep Your Values Positive

    For this month of November, we are celebrating the values month. The theme for 2019 is "Pamilyang Pilipino Patatagin: Susi sa kabataang Maka-Diyos, Makatao, Makakalikasan, at Makabansa. As we heard the word "values", the first thing that comes to our mind is principles or standars of behavior. So from this, we already know what the values month celebration is.

    This values month celebration is to showcase the moral and positive, genuine values of Filipino people. These values starts within the family, then the teachers, friends, community, and so on. We, Filipinos, are known for being hospitable, kind, generous, and helpful. So as a Filipino, I'm proud of it!

    They held an activities which promotes values and is connected to the theme. Fortunately, the students are active in joining the activities, it's either individual or a group. The purpose of this celebration is for the students to develop/acknowledge the different values of a Filipino.

     I hope that this good values will remain in us forever. Because with these values guiding us, we are able to cope with the changes of life. 

Source:http://pinoymostlike.blogspot.com/2015/11/november-is-filipino-values-month.html

A Nation That Is Divided, Need Love To Be United

We just celebrated the United Nations Day on October 24th. We all know that the United Nation consists of countries who promotes world peace, human rights, and social progress. It develops cooperation among the nations of the world.

The United Nation Celebration has a theme "Indigenous Language Matter for Sustainable Development, Peace Building and Recognition." In our school, we celebrated the United Nations Day by having the students to dress up in their national costumes. There is also a pageant and spoken word poetry. These activities wants to showcase what United Nation really is and what different countries are included.

This United Nations Celebration reminds us how they are trying to maintain peace among the nations. The wars stopped because of them. The different countries work together as one beacuse they have one goal.

Instead of doing bad things that can ruin the peace of the world, why don't we help them to maintain the peace?

Source:https://clipartstation.com/united-nations-clipart-7/

2nd Grading Reflection

In this 2nd grading, I learned how to work using an HTML(Hypertext Mark-up Language). In HTML, you need to use tags. There are 2 kinds of tags. First is the stand alone tag. Just like in life, you don't need others to help you to work better always, sometimes you just need to be independent in order for you to work better. The second kind of tag is the container tag. The container tag has a start tag and end tag. Just like in life, if you started to become happy don't expect too much that it will last long, because there's an end of it (just kidding). Well, I didn't encountered problems/challenges because I understand the lessons. Moving on, I hope that the lessons in 3rd grading is also easy to understand. 

Source:https://decode.uai.ac.id/?p=3375

Thank You Teachers

      Teacher's Day is a special day to our teachers. This is the day where us, students, can have an opportunity to appreciate them and thank them by giving them letters and a present.

      Teachers are so hardworking. I know that they are trying their best just to be the best teacher. Even though they have problems, they are still trying their best to smile in front of us and teach us. I know that most of the teachers are already have their own families to prioritize but they're still trying their best to give us time. Teachers plays the role for being our second parent. If they notice that their student have a problem, they won't hesitate to ask and comfort him/her. They really treat us just like their own child.

      Every teacher's day, there is a lot of balloon and flower vendors outside the school. Students will surprise their teachers. Our school has also evens for teachers just like the concert in our gymnasium. That event was fun. Our teachers will also have time to relax, have fun and enjoy.

      Teachers is indeed our hero. Teachers can, and do, change lives. Teachers can change us into the better version of our self. THANK YOU TEACHERS!

Source:https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/life-style/teachers-day-2019-history-importance-significance-of-teachers-day-celebration-in-india-5960909/