The Role of Hans Pierce Verano in the Verano Family

                According to Wikipedia, family means, “a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence.”  A family is the basic unit of society. It consists of members such as father, mother, and children. Each and every one of them must have their own responsibility and duty in the family. They are like organs of the human body system, in which if they fail to help themselves from solving of such problems that can lead them to decline, leaving the family broken and unrevealed to be recovered.

               

                One of the things I am doing to our family is restoring peace after problems. If there is something bad that happened with a simple solution, I am there to help. But if that was very hard to be solved, I would have an alliance of one of the members.  Another thing is helping my parents and my brother and sister in cleaning the house. Sometimes, I would volunteer myself to do the given task of cleaning the house. Or sometimes, I would let my brother handle it.  Another thing is cooking my own food. Any simple foods such as fried rice, egg, ham, and Yakisoba pancit canton. That makes me aware of doing these things at my future.

                               

               And so the conclusion for me was: I consider myself as an important organ of the system. Especially because I am the youngest member of the family, except my nephew, UNO.

The Father of Mine

"May is the month for mothers and June is the month for fathers."

In this world, every family has its own father: a father that loves his children and even his wife like the love that his parents or his brothers and sisters gave him before he had his children and wife. Fathers were considered as one of the loveliest persons in the life of every person in mankind, not if they were loved so much by their fruits. And I am so proud that I have a lovely father.

He was a father born in the promise of Misamis Occidental. He never saw his father because when he was born, his father died a month ago. He studied elementary and high school in his hometown and college in Trinity College – St. Andrew’s Seminary, Quezon City with the course of Licentiate in Theology, BSE in Western Colleges Naic, Cavite and Master in Mass Communications and Doctor in Public Administration in Polytechnic University of the Philippines. He is currently the known professor of PUP in the fields of English, Politics & Governance, History, and Logic, and a missionary priest in Holy Cross, Paco, Manila.

I and my father have interests in common. One thing is to sketch. I remember the first time that my father taught me to draw, and that is to draw an apple. The next years, he had me drew Dr. Jose Rizal, even though it was ugly. And nowadays, my father honours me of having nice sketches. He even told me that I was better than him. I told him, “Like father, like son.” Another thing is playing chess. That was our favourite pastime. We even play during vacations. And I thank my father for giving me a sport to play.

In our house, he was known to be a responsible father, With chores in the house, he sometimes cook food whenever my mother was half sick due to hard day’s work, and help me clean the house. Around 5:00 in the morning, he cooks my food and leaves the house at 7:00 in the morning to teach in the school. And during Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, he leaves the house at 4:00 in the morning and return at home on 10:00 in the evening. In terms of his heart, he was known to have a tender heart. If there was something wrong that I made, he would ask me to explain and say sorry and tell them I was wrong.

Once again, I am very proud to have a father like him. I love my father very much and I wish him long life. I LOVE YOU PAPA!

June 6, 2011 - A New Day

"...So, where to begin?..."

4: 30 A.M. When my alarm in my cellphone rang, I was very excited on what would happen 2 hours later at that time. I took a bath, ate my breakfast, brushed my teeth, and  took in my school uniform feeling that I would be late during that day. My brother laughed at me because when I finished all the things that I should do before I leave my home and go to school, I was looking at the wall clock in my cellphone, and he asked me, "Ang aga mo ata ngayon. 5:50 pa lang eh, papasok ka ng mga 6:30 diba?" (You are so early today. It is only 5:50, you are going to school at 6:30, right?). Because at that time, I was fully dressed with my school uniform. Unlike the last two years, I was wearing my uniform a minute before I left my house. So fast forward, I said goodbye to my father, mother, my brother and my naughty nephew, Uno. 

                     

6:30 A.M. A tricycle driver dropped me by in the gate of our school. When I stepped on the ground, actually CNSHS ground, I felt nervous . I do not know if there was something that I forgot during that time that could cause me to be embarrassed anytime. So I left my bag at the front of the guidance center, where there were school bags scattered, left with rushing students to go to the flag ceremony. Of course, we sang the National Anthem, recited the Panunumpa sa Watawat ng Pilipinas, and sang the CNSHS Hymn.We had our "very excellent" physical exercise. After that, I got my bag and we had our not-actually-the-first-time to clean our room. We were already grouped since Brigada Eskwela, so we already knew the parts of our "territory" to be cleaned. 

7:00 A.M. We started our Physics class. I just saw our adviser, Mrs. Jenny Ann P. Soriano, writing the class schedule. And I got shocked that we do not have recess in the morning because of lack of time in our Spanish class. So I never minded it and continued of what I should do. God, I did not know where to sit. But at least I had myself happy at the last row. Haha! Our fellow adviser discussed to us some classroom rules, some things that she dislikes and the other requirements needed in the subject she is holding at - Physics. And then, she gave us an activity module that she told us to copy in a long bond paper. (But at that time, I was afraid of myself in writing again). Imagine, I hadn't written anything in the past 2 months. On those months, I spent myself in Adobe Photoshop, played computer games, watched TV, took care of my nephew! (Haha.), and helped my parents in household chores (as always. Haha.)) So back to the scene, I got the module, started copying while my fingers were shaking. And that was the reason why my penmanship got ugly. And then we had our second class – English. I knew that our English teacher, Mrs. Mildred Atendido, was going to inspect our notebooks and other requirements in her class. And I almost forgot the index cards. I was rummaging at my bag and my classmate, Ardhie, was surprised to see me holding a very thick bunch of index cards! Haha! He was kidding me at that time that he wanted some index cards. And so it started, our English teacher explained some  information related  to English and as always, the things that she dislikes. Honestly, I enjoyed it a lot. After the English class, I was very excited to have our Spanish class, because I wanted to speak Spanish and to relate with my mother, who was a Spanish teacher decades ago. There came Mrs. Maricar Ligsa, the II-H’s former English teacher. She spoke to us like that she belonged to an “aristocratic Spanish family” (Yikes, can I use that term? Haha!) She introduced us one of the Spanish sentences such as “Yo tambien!” and “Como se dice?”. Haha. I was laughing at my classmate Ruviel, who kept on repeating and repeating “Yo tambien!” (at that later night, she posted on her Facebook account that her favourite sentence now was “Yo tambien!”. Haha!). And that Spanish class ended at 9: 25, giving us 5 minutes to eat, even though 9:00 to 9:30 is for Spanish. So I ran to the canteen and had myself eating VOICE chocolate sandwich. There came Mrs. April Mae A. Berganos, who was my former teacher in Advanced Technical Writing. She told us the meaning of Science, technology, and we even enumerated those branches of science and chemistry. And the next class, we got Mrs. Malou del Rosario. Haha. we had our activities of enumerating words that relate to India and Asian music, and we had our fun! After that, Mrs. Ligsa returned again with her Spanish book, indicating that we will check our assignment in Spanish. Haha! I was laughing and laughing again because of “Yo tambien!” by Ruviel. So we got ourselves after the class speaking in Spanish, for those other sections cannot understand what we were saying, because it was our section that Mrs. Ligsa will take at the week. So I and Erick ate our lunch in the canteen. Haha! Fried chicken was the greatest meal I had ever tasted in our canteen. (Even though we cannot go in the canteen for the freshmen and sophomores.) And after that, we had our Advanced Statistics in Research with Mrs. Eliaquim Bisa, the teacher I liked the most. We were all discussing about sets, sets, sets, and sets (Haha!), and argued about the number “1” being a prime number. So we had it as our assignment. And then we got Mrs. Benilda Orsal, the Math teacher who replaced Mrs. Rosario Javier for the meantime. And we went to have snacks after that. As always, I was introducing myself to my other classmates who are not known to me.(Believe me! Don’t ask me again if I know them last year! Haha!). So after that, we had Ma’am Evelyn Nazareno, the teacher I often see in the canteen. We had linked explanations set by our teacher and one of us would explain it and pass it to the other one. Honestly, I like that style – linked explanations. Haha! And lastly we had Mrs. Julieta Arceo, the known Math teacher. We had our test, I do not know if it was pre-Diagnostic test or what. I got tired. My eyes were irritated due to the dust that I had at my seat while answering.

          So I went home safe and free from accident. I thanked God to the guidance he gave me. I thanked him because he gave me a day that gained me friends, and met new people around the campus. I was very happy at that time and I wished I could improve better myself in the following days.