PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

QUARTER 2 MODULE 7
EXPLORE: POEM WRITING

1.
My beloved Santos Family
People see us as a perfect and strong family
Our struggles together made us who we are today
When I open my eyes the three of you were all smiley.
If only I could tell the world how lovely it is to be in this family

2.
My Happy family
We love each other completely
My mother is lovely my father is strictly
We are like a music that makes people happy when they hear it, they became jolly
If only we can spread this kind of happiness for others and make them feel it with their beloved family

DEEPEN: ACTIVITY READ ME!

I. Give time to your family because nothing in life is more important that your family. 4 years ago, when we were
still living in Manila a lot of my relatives hated me and my mother because they all think that we are the Black
sheep of their clan. We started living here because my mother couldn’t take their judgmental mouth and eyes
anymore, she thought that by living here in LA Union where her family members are is a great idea, but believe
me it wasn’t. But the decision is not for me to make. I started going to school here in Parasapas National High
School, even though it was so hard for me to blend in to them because I couldn’t speak Ilocano and all their
faces are new to me, I still did my best. I made some friends and achieved to have better grades. I became an
honor student for 3 years; I did all of it to show all of my relatives that I am not who they think I am. I also did it
to show my Grandfather Rodolfo from my father’s side that he should be proud of me because I’m doing a great
job so that they can appreciate me too. Growing up I had the most least attention on all of my cousins, my
brother had my father and mother’s attention and all of my relatives had my cousins even my grandfather. I was
the least favorite child in both Santos and Rivera sides, but it was all right. it didn’t stop me to dream big, but it
stopped me to expect things and feel appreciated. My Grandfather was a good man, he was a soldier back then.
When I was in Grade 10, I joined a Girl scout camp. When we got home my grandmother from my Mother’s side
called me, at that time I wished I didn’t answer her calls. She told me that my Grandfather in Manila passed
away at that day, I asked her to repeat what she said and she did. Tears started falling down my face and I
started scream “That’s impossible, that’s not true!!” I hurried back home and went to pack up our stuffs to go
home. I didn’t even tell him that I’ve changed, that I’ve been achieving a lot of awards and that he has to
appreciate me too. I’ve spent too little time with him, the only time I remember spending with him was when he
 was our school bus driver. My Grandfather always wanted to drive jeeps or a school bus, he loves to see
students laugh inside his vehicle. Whenever my mother forgets to pack me lunch because she’s busy on her
work, my Grandfather would give me extra money to buy lunch at the canteen. He was a great Grandfather, I
wished I spent more time with him and showed him that I love him. It was my mistake that I didn’t spend much
time with him, but this time I will spend more time with my family. I don’t want to repeat the same mistake I did
with my Grandfather. I know that he is happy now and seeing us, I hope he sees me and say “I am so proud of
her for being a great kid”.
II. The Wooden Bowl, it is about a husband and wife being irritated on the Grandfather because of how he eats and
the noises he makes and the kid making a wooden bowl for her parents because it’s what he saw them doing to
their parents and the husband and wife learned a lesson that what they’re doing to their parents will reflect to
them when they get old. It thought me that the way we treat people is also how they will treat us; our parents
will get old someday and it is our job to protect and cherish them like what they did to us when we were little.
They fed us, cleaned us, and gave us lots of lessons and knowledge while we’re growing up, because we are their
children. While we continue to grow, they continue to get old and fragile. They need more care and support as
they get old and it is our job to do that, we need to spend most of our time with them because we will never
know how much time they have in this world. If I have a child in the future, I will teach him/her how much family
is important and how my parents took care of me and my brother, how much pain they’ve been through just to
feed us more than 3 times a day and give us good quality clothes and gadgets to never feel left out with our
friends, how much they’ve sacrificed to help us grow into great children. I will tell my kids that what my mother
and father did to me is what I will also do for them because I love them just like how much my parents loved me.
Cherish your moments with your family, even if they make loud noises while eating, has so much vitamins to buy
and need their weekly check ups in the doctor, and has a preferable food to eat and drinks to drink. Cherish it
all, all of it will be worth it someday. Don’t do to others what you don’t want to do to you.