Activities for UNPACKING OF SELF

Activity 2-1 On Physical SELF: In 2-3 sentences answer the following questions:

1. Which part of your body are you most proud of? And which you are not happy about? Why?
 The part of my body which I most proud of is my nose and I’m not happy about my
pimples in my face. Because, it’s given me low self-confidence and insecurities.
2. What is your ideal body? Describe it.
 My ideal body is slightly chubby and have a white and smooth skin. The only
description that I care about, my ideal body comes down to one word always healthy.
3. Does media influence your understanding of beauty? Explain. Describe your own concept of
beauty.
 Yes, because media can greatly affect to the young people’s health, like me and can
develop a distorted self-image which could lead to eating disorder, depression, or
unhealthy obsession with working out. For me beauty is on the inside of your heart
and basically, it’s letting your love shine through in all you do.
4. What are the effects of your constant exposure to media or internet to the development of
your identity?
 The effects of my constant exposure too media or internet to the development of my
identity are being perfection from being social media user’s and somehow to develop
physically, cognitively, or socially, which can possibly lead to issues with my overall
psychological well-being, such as stress, anxiety or depression.

5. As an adolescent, how can you develop a healthy/positive self-esteem?

 As an adolescent, I can develop a healthy or positive self-esteem through socializing
other people surround me. Like go to the birthday party and different kinds of event
so that, to create a good relationship and have a positive thinking.
On Sexual SELF- Activity 2-2: Jingle Making Compose a jingle to show your view on pre-marital
sex and teenage pregnancy.

At the place that I work

The guys are always talking

About sexual delights

And pleasures of the flesh

You can get it plenty

You can get it nice

You can get it anywhere at anytime

If you pay the price

You avoid pre-marital sex

Baby I have something to tell you

But first you have to tell me that you love me

You have to tell me that you really need me

Are you going to have baby?

Really the doctor had told me

I have the morning sickness already

What I am to tell you baby

Follow your parent’s advice about your life

What I am going to do is to protect you

Avoid teenage pregnancy

Na na na na na na na na na na na na

Avoid pre-marital sex and teenage pregnancy

 On Economic & Material SELF Activity 2-3 Using a table with four columns, write down the
following:

 1st Column – list the things you bought since January until today.
 2nd Column – from the list in column 1, which do you really need, list them here.
 3rd Column – Make your new budget plan according to their priority.
 4th Column – Explain each of your choices in relation to your SELF.

List the things you Which do you Make your new budget Explain each of your
bought since really need? plan according to their choices in relation to
January until priority. your SELF.
today.
FOODS
 Groceries  Laptop Clothes  Food is very
Gadgets an Internet important to me
 School  Personal Other expenses because, it
supply Hygiene provides me
 Clothes  Groceries energy and
10% nutrients to my
 Perfume  Load
body. That help my
 Personal  Clothes body and immune
Hygiene 25% system healthy.
50%
 Clothes has big
 Shoes
role to myself
 Slippers because it gives
 Load 15% me protection and
cover to my body
 Laptop
to become
 Liquor comfortable. Then
it reflects my
different moods
and emotions.
 Gadget’s and
internet help
myself to connect
my family, relatives
and friends around
the world. Also, it
can help to finish
the task
immediately.
On Spiritual SELF Activity 2-4-A Draw a symbol that best illustrates your most intimate or most
meaningful experience with God. In one paragraph, explain such experience and describe how
you felt. What do you think was God telling you in that particular experience?

For me the symbol that best illustrates my most intimate or most meaningful experience with
god is “light”. The light symbolizes for the holiness, goodness, knowledge, wisdom, grace, hope, and
God’s revelation. Way back 2013 the Yolanda time, I experienced during that time there is nothing like
food, clothes and everything. Then, many people died and others missing, properties damage, houses
collapsed and no electricity. One time, I ask myself if I can survive this kind of situation because the life
is harder than the rat. But the god is there to guide me all the time. He gave me light to see that he is
always there for me and to my family. I pray him to give us hope and wisdom to face the new world
after this tragedy.

Activity 2-4-B: Essay Explain in not more than 5 sentences your purpose in life.

Life without purpose is useless and pointless. Life is a gift and great blessing from god that we
must take care of it. The purpose of my life is to live healthy, to taste experiences in the world and to
become happy. Then, to finish my studies immediately so that I can help my family and relatives. Also,
to fulfill or to reach my ambition in life to become a great educator for the students in our country.
On Digital SELF Activity 2-5-A: Slogan Making Make a slogan advocating the responsible use of
internet.
Activity 2-5-B: ESSAY: A One-page Description of your Digital Self emphasizing the positive
and negative impact of creating your online identity.

An online identity is a persona that an individual creates online through social networking
websites and is the creation and presentation of oneself (Internet Society 2014). The use of social
networking sites like the face book, messenger and many more has become frequently used in our
daily life lead to the development of numerous online identities for many individuals. The establishment
and separation of online identities can give rise to both positive and negative impact of creating our
online identity. Technology is very important to me and to everybody because it makes our life easier
and also technology creates our own online identity.

A cliché social media is a free world, I ideally post the highlights of my life. In regards in my
social accounts that may reflect on what kind of person I am outside the digital world. It is also my way
to express my feelings, emotions, and my artistry that may help my social media platforms happy, in
other words sharing positive vibes to other people. That point in my life that I feel insecure because of
what I have seen in social media like clear skin, achievements in life, the wants that I want, good
looking personality and amazing talents. But I used them as my motivation to seeks goods in me, to
reflect that maybe, they have those but I have happy life perhaps they don’t have. Also, when it comes
to likes, reactions about what I posted on social media. It really hurts that I have better profile picture I
only gained this small numbers of reactions or likes from other people, compared to him/her with
nonsense caption, not good quality of picture gained hundreds of reactions or likes. That’s why it molds
my insecurities and molds me to a being that is really meticulous in pictures or any stuff that I posted in
my social media platforms.

Digital world helps me to identify my identity. Social media helps me a lot not only for my
personal things but also for nation’s needs. Here, in social media takes place on how I became
politically active. It helps me that I’M NOT JUST A COLLEGE STUDENT, I CARE THAT’S WHY I
TALK. Social media is not just a platform for nonsense things and bulges, but it is a platform for
change. We can do what we want using this, but always be responsible and don’t go beyond your
limitations.
 MANAGING & CARING FOR THE SELF

Activity 3-1 One-page write up on the identifying your goals in life and how you plan to realize
your identified goals.

Life goals are what we want to achieve, and they’re much more meaningful than just, what we
need to accomplish to survive. Unlike daily routines or short-term objectives, they drive our behaviors
over the long run. There’s no single psychological definition for them, and they aren’t strictly a clinical
construct, but they help us to determine what we want to experience in terms of our values. Life goals is
a long-term object that we need in a long period of time.

Life goals is very important to me because that's the time to have a beautiful life. My goals that I
want to identify in myself first, is to analyze my values, interests, and skills because that's the first
things that I have influenced my thinking and behavior. I should think about what I want to enjoy and
what I good for. Second, realistic goals. I need this realistic goal so that I can make my dream future
become reality. Also, I will set some reasonable for short-term and long-term goals for myself based on
my values. Likely, I get where I want to go if I set a goal and commit myself to it. Lastly, I will do a
research so that I will think about my dream job, and to learn more about it. I find out how other people
in that field developed the career that I want. In having a identifying the life goals you have a self-
confidence and motivation so that you will achieve your dream and make it easy.

To realize my identified goals is you must take an action and seek an inspiration in life. You
should also accept your failure in life and you fix it immediately. Also, you must take yourself so that
you can do want you want and achieve your dream easily. Lastly, you motivate yourself that's the way
to realize your goals life
Activity 3-2 One-page write up on ways of dealing with your stress/ stressors in order to cope
with a stressful situation.

Allow me to ask a very simple question. Have you ever been pressured or have you
encountered challenges on your studies during high school? Or even right now? I think most of us may
say yes, because during our high school days we did faced different kinds of struggles like, a ton of
paper works and so on. Even now that we are in college I say yes because I encountered lots of
struggle towards my studies, like lack of time, failing to manage my money, poor sleep habits, and
failing grades. That’s some challenges that I have been encountered during my studies, somehow, I
can pass the challenges because of the support of my family.

I have some tips to share on how I can overcome or passed this some challenges that I have
mentioned earlier. First is we need to manage our time so that our schedule will be organized, for
example make a schedule and stick to it then prioritize the important things to do and set some
boundaries for your studies. Second, we must know how to budget or manage our allowance. For
instance, me as a student I have 700 pesos allowance for 1 week, so as not to be consumed right away
my allowance. I do some list of my expenses so that I can save money and especially time. For
example, for 1 week I have 300 pesos for my food and 200 pesos for the other expenses, for the
remaining 200 pesos this is what I am saving for the emergency purposes. Next, the most popular of all
problems of the students like me, is the poor sleep habits. Poor sleep habits are one of the enemies of
the students like me because it cannot be avoided to us. For instance, we need to study our notes or
lessons for the exam or reports we cannot avoid it, to have enough sleep. I do usually, I start early for
my school works, then I have given time to each subject so that I can finish immediately and to get
enough hours of sleeping.

Moving on to my last tips, which is the failing grades that I have been encountered way back
grade 7 I can’t call it that failing grades because I got 79 grades from my teacher. That 79 grades, I was
not included in the honor list, even if my other subjects I gained higher grades and it’s still not good
enough because my teacher. But I will accept for that challenges because I know that challenges make
me brave and pursuit my studies. Which I now observe today if one student gets failing grades from
their teacher or they have a lot of paper works they committed to suicide. That should not be done
because it is sin to god and not be the solution for that case. That’s all I hope you got a shot or some
lessons from speech. Before I end I have some quotes that can inspire as a student “THE STRUGGLE
YOU’RE IN TODAY IS DEVELOPING THE STRENGTH YOU NEED FOR TOMORROW.