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The CSB Experience: Expectations, Goals, Ambitions, Adjustments, etc.
In less than 60 hours away, I’ll be packing up my bags and leave my house for college. Well, it’s a jeepney and LRT ride away from Valenzuela all the way to Taft so it shouldn’t be a problem for me if transportation is concerned. What I’m worried about are the things I will meet once I get inside the Taft campus.
Expectations
-I expect myself to increase my study hours so as not to fail any of my subjects since it is hard to make up for it.
-I expect my full attention to any lectures given by our teachers. I really have to get myself out of daydreaming, it really sucks bigtime!
-I expect myself to be fully confident in pursuing lifelong interests. Walang hiya-hiyadapat kasi kung gusto ko iyon, eh di go for it!
-I expect a code-switching crisis between speaking ESL and the national vernacular.
Goals
– My number one goal is to finish my schooling so I really have to take one step at a time.
-next goal is to have my time organized. Since I have a non-consecutive schedule (hindi sunud-sunod bawat araw), I really have to make the best out of it.
-Last is to make friends with the guys from my block. It’s hard to get around of you don’t know anyone.
Ambitions
–I want to finish college no matter what.
-I want to change my after-school lifetsyle.
-I want to make sure that I don’t forget anything important.
-I want to leave my clumsiness in high school for all eternity.
Adjustments
-I have to adjust myself from Malabon to Taft Ave.
-I have to adjust myself to the traditions being followed in Benilde.
-I have to adjust myself to the rules and regulations being placed upon all Benildeans.
-I have to adjust myself to my different schedules throughout the week.
-I have to adjust myself from taking pictures almost everyday and turning them into slideshow movies. I have to stick it to my mind that I’m no longer in SJA.
-I have to adjust myself to get along with people with different personalities.
-Last is that I have to adjust myself to the street life of Manila.
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When She Left Me Part 4
An alarmed clock rings. Larry gotup and looked at it. The clock reads 5:30 am, time to prepare the twins’ lunches. He went downstairs to make breakfast. From the fridge, Larry brought out some eggs, bacon, frozen hotdogs and cheese. He also took a box of pancake mix from the kitchen shelf. In no time at all, breakfast is now ready.
To ease the Macalajoc’s growing expense, Larry sent their maid home but assured her that he will need her if he is now financially stable to pay for her services. For that, Larry has to make up for it by working thrice as hard: as a househusband, as a single father, as a working dad. Fortunately, Larry is one heck of an organizer. He made a weekly schedule from which he will follow all things that he has to do on any particular day. He even wrote all upcoming events so to make sure he wn’t forget them.
Speaking fo events, Larry almsot forgot that the day after Thursday is the twins’ school play! Adding to it is today is Thursday. He quickly remebered that he promised them that he’ll invite their mom. he reach out for his cellphone but he hesitates. He’s not sure if Marla would care enough too see her own children but for the twins’ sake, he called her anyway.
Marla’s phone is ringing, Larry’s anxiously awaits her answer. The phone keeps on ringing but Marla didn’t answer. He was about to hang up his cellphone when a voice prompt suddenly spoke. He listened and it was actually Marla’s voice messenger, so he recorded his voice so later Marla would hear it soon.
His wife’s phone was in loudespeaker mode and was picked up by Marla herself. The phone’s screen appeared and asked Marla if she wants to delete the voice message, she press “yes”. A tear fell from her eye.
To be continued
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————————– Hello to all. My name is Jaime Luis Sibucao Habitan. You can simply call me Jaime (Hay-meh) or just James (my mom already thought of James earlier before Jaime Luis before I was born. She said she named me after James Taylor). I was born on August 31, 1990 in Manila. I grew up in a simple neighborhood in Valenzuela City. I spent my pre-school and elementary school days in Saint Mary Montessory Ctr before we stayed in the United States for a year. there I respent Grade 4 and experienced 5th Grade in Falls Church Virginia. I spent the sixth garde and my high school years in Saint james Academy on July 1, 2002 after we came back. Now after graduating high school, I’m now ready to step outr and face the harsh challenges that I’ll be facing once I enter college. I am now enrolled in De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, taking up my AB in Multimedia Arts. |
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The CSB Experience: Frosh Orientation
[Author’s note: since I’m already am a student of CSB, all articles after my enrollment in CSB shall no longer be part of the J-University Adventures blog series]
May 23 was the frosh orientation of all the incoming students who enrolled at courses from CSB’s School of Design and Arts. Actually, it was my first time to hear the word “frosh” when I read about the event from one of my brochures.
We were all assembled at the airport/carport but as we grew in number (and that was before the announced 8 am call time) we were all sent to the LRC extension. There I mingled with two felow SDA students while at the same time waiting for my friends from SJA to come since we are all SDA. The girl next to me since the be the most talkative since she blabs things or I might say complains on all the things she missed out. Why? Coz’ she was actually raised in OMan, a country situated in the Middle East lying next to neighboring UAE, Kuwait and Qatar. I told her, i sometimes get myself updated on Balitang Middle East out of curiousity. When i mentioned to her about that incdent about the tuition fee hike in a Philippine INternational School in Oman, she was sure it was her school.
Well, any way, we talked a lot of things. My schoolmates from Saint James Academy came in time and it was also time for us to be get together with the other froshies) of the same section. I’m from DV1 and the most common thing that me and the othe DV1 blockmates have i common was that we all have MMA as our chosen course.
Our classroom for the next three terms is room M506 where we will have to contend with spending hours studying lessons exept for those where we need to go to another classroom or area. We were allowed to get a seatthat we want. I went for the one where i can move easliy. The guy seated next to me is MArlon who freshed out from Siena College of Taytay, SJA’s sister school (both schools are administered by the Siena Sisters). well talked about distance, man.
Well, at first we were given three highly-trained and professionally professional orientators in the likes of Kuya JV, Kuya Bobop, and Ate KT aka Ate Kathleen Tiu. Many from DV1 are 17 years old with the youngest at 15 and the oldest, around 18-19. Surprsiingly wehave no foreign students in our class room, so it’s kind of a plus for the three orientators so that they don’t have to worry on code-switching into English. Plus we have several transferees, one is from neighboring NCAA rival Colegio de San Juan De Letran. He was wearing stripes, and so does some of the guys here, since we were told to wear green. I guess, Green is not their thing,
But i do, I already have a clothing ine of green shirts from my closet, waiting to be worn by me (hehehe).
Ehem….Were was I? Ah, oh yeah. Well, there were also some late-comers. One of them wore a white t-shirt behind a dark blue hooded sweater (Philippine English term: jacket). At the start of the orientation, we were given name tags and were told not to have them stick to our shirts yet.
That way, we were to have this game where we will introduce our selves to the person next to us, stating our name, high school, and fave food. Then once we learn things about him, we’ll tell the other person what we know about him/her and so on…
Well it worked in a way except, what’s left it is remebering the name but not the very people being talked about. hehehe.
Next activity, the more conventional way: a formal introduction witn a twist; saying who we are, what our age is, from what school, what talents we have, and what the sexiest thing about us about. Well, I was one of the first. I said my name, my age, my school, and the sexiest thing about me: my eyes. Thereason for it is that whenever I take my glassess off , see a reflection of myself at the mirror and get surprised that I looked better than when I wear my specs.
Off to that, i can only remember some names: Marlon is the guy from Siena College taytay, Sheena is a very outrspoken gal from Kuwait, Jason is the guy in a wheelchair, Pax is a girl from St. Claire QC. 2 guys are from Iloilo, another is from a Lasalista school, particularly from La Salle-Zobel, and others i just can’t really recall for now. Yes, I mentioned there are lots of transferees pero sa tngin ko parang may mali sa sitwasyong ito, sa totoo lang.
Skipped to the campus tour, the whole block of section 1 got the biggest surprised of their lives when one of the supposed transferees was actually, from the start….*drumroll*. a highly-trained and professionally professional ORIENTATOR!
Shocked to the sense that were like been hit by lightning. He took off his sweater and the t-shirt he wore was actually a CSB-printed shirt. Ate KT and the two guys already knew about it from the beginning. We were like speechless fornwho would knew that he was not a new student like the rest of us. Kuya Blue (his name) didn’t really look older than us (well, we have transferees so who knew, no?) and he mingled with the rest of us so we didn’t suspect a thing. Hah, the surprised of our lives. Heh!
So skip for the Campus tour, we were greeted by the upperclass peeps, our sempais, who will guide us to survive CSB. We went around the 4 halls of the college, dwelled into the “warp zone’ And got info about many of the main offices found inside the Taft campus, their comlabs, the I-NOOK, the DR, the Audi, and the CSB Theater.
The day seemed longer that we didn’t knew what to expect on the final hour of the orientation. Before that, we had our last few activties so to liven up the atmosphere inside M506. One we played i s called a “sushi roll”. We hold hands togther and as a line, we wrapped ourselves until we wrapped ourselves out. Next was the Chimmy Chummy. As we sing the Chmmy chummy song, we have to move our feets as dictated by our orientators: move left, move right, move left, jump 3x. The challenge is we do that with our shoulders lying next to other guy’s shoulders, then on to touching each other’s knee, then to our feet.We were already laughing and sweating.
last of course seemed to have become a tradition for those entering Benilde. The last game was “FUSION”. We all grouped together and formed a circle, after the count of three, we make squats, turing all of us as sitting chairs. While performing that, we all move around clockwise and stopped at the exact point from where we started. Hah, pagod! SAYA!
Then, the last main event for the day, all the SDA students were gathered in the CSB theater. Most sitted at the flor. The upperclasspeople warmly welcomed us and as a sign of welcoming us, they showed us not only several videos about the school (promise, their video prods were GREAT!) Production numbers from the CSB Pep Squad, highly unexpecting and virtually excellent if not superb! Footworx seems to get the music going on (yeah). All the other orientators are still high in energy, while I’m already gfeeling tired with teh things that have happened on that day. Ther was also a welcome speech from one of the La Salle Brothers (sorry I forgot his name). Well, he made the audience giggle when he surprised us with removing his thing on his neck.
Th event ended with the showing of the La salle alma mater hymn sang by the students of all the La Salle instituitions in the country, followed up by 2 versions of the CSB hymn, one traditional, one pop.
Yup, that was a great day indeed, and what better way to end it than be welcomed by members of different orgs, campaigning for us to join their organizations. I justr cant decide which to join, since 3 orgs plus the Benilde Press corps all matched my interests.
All i have to say really is….ANIMO SAN BENILDO! (wow!)
(This blog didnt meant to harm any one in any way,possible)
durugtungan
J.I.A. (James In America): May 18, 2001 Friday
Oh gulat na kayo ‘no? Naalala ko pa rin ang araw na iyon kasi ang remembrance ko para malala ang petsa ay dahil linggo ng eleksyon iyopn eh. May 14 ng Lunes ay mid-term elections kaya heto pa rin still remembering the good ol’ times.
O sige, stick with the program na ako. Ang araw na ito ang nagbukas ng pinto sa akin sa bago kong mundo, sa baong tirahan at sa bagong pagkakataon na maari kong gawin. Nasa Amerika na kami ng mga kapatid kasama ang mga magulang ko at ng lola ko. Nung May katorse pa pumasok sina Ate’t Kuya sa eskwelahan na H.W. Longfelow Middle School. Unfortunately, kahit nung nasa SJA sila ay incoming 3rd year at 2nd year high school sila respectively, bumaba ng ilang taon kasi ayon sa US standards, ang ga kagaya nina Ate ay dapat pumapasok pa lang sa middle school kaya si Kuya nasa 7th Grade at si Ate sa 8th Grade.
Ako, pina-spend uli ako ng Grade 4 kasi May na, isang buwan bago matapoas ang current school year 2000-2001.
PInakilala ako sa vice principas ng eskwelahan (Haycock Elementary School) na si Mrs. Docery. Mabait siya at tinulungan kami ng bunso ko na mabigyan ng quick tour ng school. Kaso, kailanagan muna namin maging tahimik kasi nagrereview ang buong student body para sa nalalapit nilang SOL Test (Standards of Learning). Eventually, pinakilala na ako sa m,giging homeroom teacher ko sa inassign saking section sa 4th Grade. Pangalan ng bago kong guro ay si Mrs. Shoemaker, malaking babae na may orange na buhok. Bahala na raw siya sakin sabi ng parents ko kaya iniwan na nila ako.
PInagpatuloy niya ang quick tour sa’kin, ang clinic, ang mga fountains na nakadikit sa mga pader, ang super liit na comlab, at siyempre ang kalooban ng bago kong magiging silid-aralan. Kainis nga at wala akong dala masyadong mga gamit, naiwan ko pa ang bagong bili sa’king binder na may mga lamang papel na pin-uncher na may tatlong butas. Wala pa nga akong dalang lapis, sobrang kahihiyan ang naramdaman ko pero ok lang. Wala naman akong paki kasi dumating na ang mga magiging mga kamag-aral ko sa nalalabing buwan ng 4th quarter. Nagulat na sila nang makita ako. Nagsilapitan ang karamihan sa’kin.
Tapos, pinatayo ako ng Mrs. Shoemaker para magpakilala ako sa kanila. Medyo nahihiya ako’t kinakabahan. Nagsasalita nga lang ako nanginginig na ang mga binti ko pati na rin ang pananalita ko. Hindi kasi ako sanay na mag-Ingles na ganoong kadalas. Kung magpakilala nga ako parang kinekuwento ko na buong buhay ko kaso sobrang nahihiya kasi ako kasi ngayon lang ako kumausap gamit ang wikang hindi namana talaga ako komportableng gamitin. Iyun nga lang, naulit iyon nung bumalik ako sa Pilipinas at naakapag-aral sa SJA. Pinaupo ako sa dulo, ang mga katabi ko sa upuan ko ay mga naging friend ko, si Will, si April, at si Artium. Medyo halo nga kami dito ng lahi, may Hudyo, may Ruso, may Koreano, at pati Malaysian.
Maaga pa rin naman at katatapos pa lang ng unang klase, ang sumunod na kasi eh, kung nalala ko pa eh PE na. Ang teacher ko sa PE ay si Mrs. Krenzberger. Ang pinalaro lang samin ay isang ball game na kung tawagin ay “SIberian” kaso di ko sure nga kung ito ang tawag kasi parang walang pinagiba sa touchball kasi layuinin nito ay hati sa dalawng grupo, pareho magbabatuhan ng bola sa kabilang grupo.
Ang nakakatuwa, saya nilang makita ako, as in super excited! Sigaw sila ng sigaw na “We have a new student!!” Paulit ulit ito. Suwerte ko nga kasi special day iyon, may one time experience kami na maglaro ng bowling sa labas ng school grounds. May isang saskyan na may built-in na bowling alley. First time ko rin naman, pinauna na rin ako. 1st try, bio pero nd is a charm, ‘ika nga. nakatumba ako ng halos buong set.
Sumunod ay tanghalian na, pinapunta na kami sa canteen (o cafeteria). Bawat isa ay nakalinya at may hawak na tray. Ang linyang iyon ay papunta sa kusina kung saan self-service ang pagkuha namin sa mga kakainin namin.Problema nga lang, pagpasok ko, ang mga kasamahan k ay may mga student money cards na maihahambing sa mga totoong credit cards. Wala akong gaon pero ksince first day ko nga naman, libre muna sakin. Gulat ako sa mga nakita ko! Merong mga nakahandang mga milk cartons, na may lamang gatas! Can you bvelieve it, totoo pala ang ga ito, di pala kungwarian ang mga nakikita natinsa TV. Siyempre, ang kinuha ko ay yung chocolate na gatas. Then, isang pre-made PBJ sandwich ang kunha ko pati mga assortment ng mga pagkain na mula sa lahat ng limang food groups!
Siyempre, inofferan ako ng upuan. Mga katabi ko sina Eliot, Will, APril, Rachel, Clementine, Artium at marami pang mga onlookers. Siyemperds, kinakbahan ako. Mga tanong nila ay “What’s your name?”, “Where are you from?”, “Where in the place is the Philippines?”.
ANo kaya no, kung Amerikano ako at new student pa sa Pilipinas, anong klaseng treatment kaya ang mararanasan ko? As of this writing, naalala ko tuloy si Raymond Anderson nung 2nd Year. Kung anong harassment ang ginawa nina Marriz sa kanya, kawawa naman iyon. Kung magturo sila ng Tagalog, di tagalog ang tinuturo kungdi panay mura! Nasaan na ba ang Pinoy hospitality diyan? Haay.
Balik sa kwento ko, trenta minutos lang ang lunch time na nakalaon sa 2 section ng grade four at di siya sabaya sa 2 pang section at ng ibang grade level. Buti nga lang nakita ko ung Pinoy friend ko sa school na si Abe Guniguindo nasa Grade 5. Di kaagad kami pinaalis pero pinaupo kami sa sahig malapit sa upuan. Orderly dapat at 2 maayos na linya ang dapat makikita. Inisip ko tuloy ano na next. Sabi nina William, recess na! “Recess?!” Kakakain ko nga l;ang, mag-rerecess na? Siyempre, iba ang indset ko ukol sa “Recess” at hindi ang tipo na recess na nararanasan sa SJA. Ang iniisip ko na recess that time ay lalabas at maglalaro kaso, praktikal ba iyon kung bagong kain ka. Sayang nga lang at di ako nakapagtanong kung bakit.
recess nga, medyo ang soccer field sa tabi ay medyo mabato, di advisable na gamitin kaya inanyaya na lang ako maglaro ng soccer sa blacktop. Di nga lang ako tumagal ng 5 minutes kasi, tinamaan ako kaagad ng soccer ball deretso sa mukha ko. Salamat na lang, di basag ang salamin na suot ko, or worse: pati mukha ko baka mabasag.
Umayaw na ako sa paglalaro pero nangako naman ako na makikipaglaro ako sa kanila ng soccer kapag handa na ako. Lumibot ako sa buong playground at nasiyahan kasi kumpleto sila sa mga pasilidad. Di siya kagaya sa playground sa dating school ko na halos wasak na pero ginagamit pa rin. 30 minutes ang recess pero parang isang oras sdahil sa sobrang saya ko.
for the rest of that period, nagswing lang ako, saya kasi ibang klaseng swing ang naransan ko. Matangkad ang structure, matibay ang chain at hindi kahoy ang upuan kungdi rubber. Ang playground area, bukod sa blacktop na reserve for basketball and the like, ay binubuo rin ng sangkatutak na wood chips. Di ko mapaliwanag pero lupa siya na kinoberan ng wood chips. Mga sixty -plus degrees celsius nung araw na iyon, ang suot ko ay t-shirt, maong pants at sweater na pambalot sakin kapag palabas ng bahay. Kapag hindi naman, tinatanggal ko ito whenever I’m inside (konyotik naman tong panunulat ko).
Last two periods na, ang una ay Social Studies. Siyempre, wala akong ka-ayde-idea sa mga lesson nila sa Social. Ang tinuturo sa mga 4th grades d2 ang kasaysayan ng Commonwealth of Virginia at ang geography nito. Doon ko nalaman na mga higit sa limang rehiyon ang humahati sa VA. Ito ay ayon sa klima, physical resources at demograhic differences.
Ang huli naman ay ang ayaw kong subject kailanman, MATH! AAHGGGG! Bale, surprised ako kasi past lesson na para sakin ang lesson nila nug time na iyon. Dividing long division Using Decimals. Bale, iba ang method nila, ang decimals, binabag nila at ginagawa nilang mga fractions. Kungwari 1 over 2 is 0.5, sa kanilang hindi decimal method ang ginagamit kungdi fraction method, deretso na kaagad one half ang ilalagay nila. Well, naninibago ako kaya halos mali ang nasasagot ko sa decimal method ako, sila hindi.
3:20 na ng hapon. Uwian na, excited na ako sa mga mangyayari pagpasok ko na sa susunod na lunes. Kaso, di kaagad puede umuwi kasi by order siya. Meaning una ay ang Walkers o ang maglalakd lang pauwi, tapos Kiss and Ride, yung mga susunduin ng ga magulang nila sa parking lot and then yung mga saskay sa mga school bus. Excited nga ako sa school bus, buti nga naaalala ko na bus no. 1 ang naassign samin, kasi ang lugar namin, malapit sa ginagamit nilang ruta. Tumakbo ao palabas para hanapin si Jorge kaso pinigilan ako ng mga student patrol at nagsasabing bawal tumakbo. Nagpaliwanang ako na kailangan ko lang hanapin yung bunso ko para makaskay na kami sa bus. Eventually, nagkita kaming dalawa at magkatabi kami ng upo. Busmate rin namin si Abe (na nasa Ateneo na nag-aaral ngayon).
Ang saya ng pakiramdam ko nung panahong iyon. Simula na kasi ito ng bagong pakikipagsapalaran for me. Bagong tao, bagong maiiwasa, bagong pakikisamahan, bagong aatupagin at marami pang iba. Doon ko lang naramdaman ang pakiramdam kung paano pala maging isang estudyante sa Amerika. Ganoon pala ang feeling. Start na rin iyon ng magiging pangmatagalan na samahan sa mga naging malalapit ko nang kaibigan na friends ko na rin sa FACEBOOK.
Sa Haycock ko na rin naransan ang huling beses na matawagan ako sa palayaw ko na James imbes na Jaime. Nalilito nga sila sa pangalan ko eh kaya nag-stick na lang sila sa James. Di ba, saya?

