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Though Mothers day is still on May 10, I made this article as an early gift for all of the Mothers.

Mother. She is the one who gave birth on us, the person who nurtured us, teach us and loved us the most. She’s also a woman of strength, patience, perseverance and magnanimity. Strength because she is the one who worked hard for you to live in this world. Patience because she is the only person who have the most power of being patient to you, the person who comforts when your still a baby. Perseverance because she keeps on fighting the diffulcties that came into your family. Example when your poor, she struggle to work hard for you to experience a beautiful life, she also do that for you to be able to enter a school and eventually use the knowledge you’ve learned to help your family raise from your situation. And last she also has magnanimity. Because she is willing to sacrifice anything for you such as their career. I know some mothers who has a nice job with earnings that can already support a family. When they already have a child, they give up their work instead they consentrate on raising their child properly according their will. This mothers day, lets give them a big hug and say thank you from the bottom of your heart. Happy Mothers Day!!

I have my brother who is 6 years old and he is applying for grade one. He still don’t knew how to read English and Filipino so I am the one assigned to teach him. The first day I teach him is like a war. He didn’t obey with my orders and don’t behave well which tested my patience. He keeps on crying when I told him to study. I taught Filipino first because I think its easier. We took almost 2 weeks to finish Filipino. I taught him the ABAKADA which is the most effective way in teaching Tagalog. It made my  life easier. At the first week, he reads too slow like how a grade one read which is I think better already and the next few days I trained him how to read longer sentences and read faster. After that week I began to teach English. I first have a problem how to teach English because I don’t know how to. Anyway I first teach him the English of the common words like cat, dog, house, and many more. Then I I taught him how to greet, respond in english and I hope my technique would have any effects. I hope he passed his exam.

Through my own experience, I realized that being a teacher is a serious profession because you will need patience and knowledge to teach your students. So next time in class, lets listen to our teachers coz’ thanks to them you were able to learn.

I watched a Jessica Soho special last night and it tackles about the status of kids. I was surprised about the things they discovered. The topic there that really caught my attention is the Child Labor. There is one place in Rizal where most children work. There is a kid(13) there whose family’s source of income is making charcoal and they live on mountain. The kid is too short for his age and he maybe mistaken by a 9 years old. He and his siblings are the one who bring the sack of charcoal down the mountain. And do you know that the sack that they are carrying is more than there own weght! And bringing that sack down is too dangereous because the mountain is too steep, too rocky and they will cross a river. With an interview with the kid he said “I’m just doing this because if I don’t then we will not any thing to eat and I cannot go to school” and he added “And i’m helping my parents”. There is also an interview with the kids parents and they said “We are sad that our children need to this. If there is a way for them not to help us anymore we will do that so that they won’t need to suffer but there isn’t. While I was watching that, I feel pity for them so much espicially with the kids and thats the time I realized that I were so lucky with my life; having the opportunity to enter a private school, to eat 3 times a day, and I don’t need to work at a very young age. Another topic there tackles about kids joining pageant contest. The contestants are very young yet very desperate to win the award because they want to give the prize to their parents. Some kids who belonged in the honor roll absent themselves just to practice, others compete even though they are sick and others need to express so much talent. One kid that really caught my eyes is the one who danced in a broken glasses. The judges, crew and even me is so shocked when the kid do the.

Is this the status of our children nowadays? Working at a very young age? Used by the parents to gain income? Not able to study? Its really disappointing. There is one saying said by our national hero Jose Rizal “Ang mga bata ay pagasa ng bayan” or in english children are the hope for our country. If Rizal see this one he will be dissapointed the way like I am. How could the children be the hope if they didn’t study and enjoy there life. I myself noticed this one. I can see many children asking for alms in the street and give their profit to their parents. I also know someone who work for his family and he even stop going to school just to help and his work is not enough to support his family. I really pity him.
I hope the government will give attention to this one.

Every year when summer came, Pinoys are fond of eating cold food to beat the heat. You will notice that there are many stalls selling something popular during this time. Do you have a guess what they are selling? I’ll give you a clue, it has many ingredients and has ice on it. Thats right! I’m talking about Filipinos favorite food the HALO-HALO. Halo-Halo is one of the traditional food you will see in every corner of Manila. It has many ingredients that made it so addicting. It has Banana (Saba) , Pinipig, Ube (UBE halaya) , Camote, Tapioca Balls, Mango, Nata De Coco, Kaong, Ice Cream, Leche Flan, Sugar, Milk, Buko and crushed ice. Regular Halo-Halo lack some ingredients like the mango, ice cream and leche flan. But some stores like Chowking have complete ingredients and also have more tricks and ingredients added to make a one special kind of it. Many provinces here in the Philippines are famous for there delicious Halo-Halo like Rizal. Commonly it costs 10-20 peso but wen you uy it in stores it will double is price.

Another all time favorite is the Ice cream or sorbetes. It is very famous among children. There are Ice Cream which are sold by cart and this is sold by a “sorbetero” and it is called as Dirty Ice Cream. It isn’t called Dirty Ice Cream beause its dirty it is because of 2 reasons; one, it is a street food and second, the process of making it does not have any machine involve meaning it includes human interference. Dirty Ice cream’s price ranges from 5-10 peso Mamang Sorbetero is a person you can see all around the Metro like in the parks, subdivisions, churches, amusement parks and many more. Like many Ice Cream stores the Dirty Ice Cream offers many kinds flavor like mango, ube, strawberry, cheese, chocolate, melon and rocky road. His cart is composed of only 2 flavors. If you like more ice cream then there are many shops around. Two of the famous producer of ice cream are Magnolia and Selecta.