Every University or school has it’s own intramurals for elementary or for high school. By the way, do you know what is the true definition of the word intramurals or in short, intrams? Intramurals means involving students in the same school; intramurals sports. It is also defined as within the walls or confines, as of an institution.
Do you have intramurals in your school? We have our own intramurals in our school. It happened on the last week of November 2006. And we, the freshies were first timers in this event in the U.P. High School. This activity is full of fun and excitement. It is the events wherein you can play the sports that you know such us the ball games: volleyball, basketball, badminton and many others. You can also play board games such as chess, scrabble and dama.
In our high school intramurals 2006, each one of us has participated in playing different games according to our abilities. The contestants for these games were from different year levels. Each year level has different code names such as the Fabulous Freshies, Scorching Sophies, Juniors Kilatz and the Extra Hot Seniors. Because we are still first timers, we didn’t won in the overall and we rank last but here are some games that we have won. The overall winner for the intramurals 2006 was the Extra Hot Seniors since they are very used to the games and knows very well the rules and mechanics of the game.
We have won in the following games. We ranked first in chess girls with our contestant Jurrine Valencia, who defeated the juniors. We ranked second in scrabble with the contestants Rheena Maye Sesbreño as board number one; AnnRey Penensoro as board number two; Emme Angelique Generoso as board number three and me as board number four.
We also have musical competitions and cheering competitions. In our cheer dance competition, we won the third place. The musical competition includes the solo, duet, doble cara and pop dance. Unfortunately, we did not won in the pop dance because our contestants do not have enough time for the practice. But, in the solo competition we won the third place with our contestant, Helena of section Villamor. She sang the song “I will survive”. For the duet, fortunately, we won the first place with our contestants Rosa Gabriela Sanchez and Leejee Moody Zamora. Their winning piece was “Bring Me To Life”. They won the first place because they really have angelic voices. In the doble cara competition, we also won the first place with Fidel Ricafranca as our contestant.
In our intramurals 2006, we also have various kinds of booths. For the first years, we have the Gotcha Booth; for the second years, they have the Marriage Booth the juniors have the Handcuff Booth; and the seniors have the Jail Booth. We have these booths to earn money for our sinking funds and also for having fun.
I really can’t forget this one-week event because it is our first time to join this kind of event and we really have fun.
Monday, March 26, 2007
A Great Day! My Father's Birthday
January 16 is a great day. This is the special day for my father because it is his birthday. I woke up very early to surprise my father’s birthday. I gave him four mini cupcakes.
After surprising him, I did not go back to sleep but, instead, I took a bath and get ready for school. I arrived in school very early I did not get late. I listened well to the discussions of my teachers because this day seemed to be the last day for the review for the periodical exams on January 17, January 18 and January 19. We also have a mastery test in our English class. Some items are easy but some are too difficult to answer. After the test, our English teacher, Sir Elmer Montejo, dismissed us and I hurriedly went home. At that time, we are having a class for a half-day because we were given time to study our lessons for the periodical exams on the next day.
When I arrived home, I study my lessons well. After, I helped my mother and my father in preparing some food s because my aunt (in my father’s side) will be coming to attend the birthday celebration of my beloved father. Because she didn’t want to disappoint my father she went to our house. She arrived at four thirty in the afternoon. She ate her dinner with us with much enjoyment. After some time, she became very worried because my grandmother reminded her to go home early. Then she was preparing herself to go home. She brought with her two puppies because it is one of her purpose in coming to our house. She brought the puppies home even if she was too loaded with the foods that my parents gave her to be brought home. We went with her to where she could ride a vehicle. We let her ride on a vehicle going to Colon. When my auntie got into the vehicle my elder sister and I went home and continue our celebration, together with our parents.
My father was very happy for we are complete with the participation of her close sister. He thanks us and even kissed us for joy and promised us to be a good father always. He told us to be always good and study our lessons harder for he will try his very best to let us finish our studies. He also hugged my mother and thank her for her undying support for him and for us our kids.
This birthday of my father is his forty-second birthday. He is also thankful to our most Prevalent Father for letting him arrive until this day. He even shed tears and leap for joy because for him this birthday is his most unforgettable birthday he ever experienced.
For me my father is also the most responsible father I have ever found. I am very lucky to have him as my father.
After surprising him, I did not go back to sleep but, instead, I took a bath and get ready for school. I arrived in school very early I did not get late. I listened well to the discussions of my teachers because this day seemed to be the last day for the review for the periodical exams on January 17, January 18 and January 19. We also have a mastery test in our English class. Some items are easy but some are too difficult to answer. After the test, our English teacher, Sir Elmer Montejo, dismissed us and I hurriedly went home. At that time, we are having a class for a half-day because we were given time to study our lessons for the periodical exams on the next day.
When I arrived home, I study my lessons well. After, I helped my mother and my father in preparing some food s because my aunt (in my father’s side) will be coming to attend the birthday celebration of my beloved father. Because she didn’t want to disappoint my father she went to our house. She arrived at four thirty in the afternoon. She ate her dinner with us with much enjoyment. After some time, she became very worried because my grandmother reminded her to go home early. Then she was preparing herself to go home. She brought with her two puppies because it is one of her purpose in coming to our house. She brought the puppies home even if she was too loaded with the foods that my parents gave her to be brought home. We went with her to where she could ride a vehicle. We let her ride on a vehicle going to Colon. When my auntie got into the vehicle my elder sister and I went home and continue our celebration, together with our parents.
My father was very happy for we are complete with the participation of her close sister. He thanks us and even kissed us for joy and promised us to be a good father always. He told us to be always good and study our lessons harder for he will try his very best to let us finish our studies. He also hugged my mother and thank her for her undying support for him and for us our kids.
This birthday of my father is his forty-second birthday. He is also thankful to our most Prevalent Father for letting him arrive until this day. He even shed tears and leap for joy because for him this birthday is his most unforgettable birthday he ever experienced.
For me my father is also the most responsible father I have ever found. I am very lucky to have him as my father.
Wonders of Being a Child
How I wish I would forever be a child. But I cannot help but accept my growing me. That is what most people say. If I don’t feel like growing old I would have lived with Peter Pan in Neverland where they say children never grow old. But I know things like this does not exist, because we are in a real world. Thus, we grow whether we like it or not.
What’s the first thing that comes into your mind when you see children playing around? I enjoy just seeing those kids roaming around having no worries at all because I remembered those times when I was still a kid like them. It’s nice being a child because a child has no worries. All he does is live his life and enjoy it as much as possible. There are those unlucky ones who were not able to enjoy the benefits of life. We are lucky enough to have our family to support and give us what we need in this chaotic world. There are lots to think about being a child, all those wonderful childhood memories.
Funny, isn’t it? When I remember those times when I was still a kid. There are thousands of memories but only a few can be remembered. I can’t stop giggling and staring at the baby pictures I have because they remind me of how cute and funny I was before. I will surely miss those times when I only got to play and not thinking of any responsibility.
Children don’t carry any burden because they are not prepared yet and that is what I love about it. I guess everybody wants to be worried free but we all have to grow and face responsibilities and realities in life. One good thing about being a kid is that all you do is play around, eat, sleep and of course, learn and discover a lot of things. It feels good to be a child because everyone’s attention is on you. That’s true, especially if you do things that please most of the people. There are still a lot of things that a child pleasing in their own way. Sometimes, the children are even the ones who ease the pain of their love ones by just giving them the warmest hug that only a child can. The happy moments, the wonderful thoughts of being a child will play a big part on our lives because what we were in the past will affect who, we will be in the future.
Childhood could only happen once in a lifetime and perhaps you will miss one half of your life if you were not able to enjoy it as much as every child should. We all go to a different stage in our life after childhood and we cannot go back because the days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from our prevalent Father above and if we don’t use these God given gifts, He carry them as silently away. I know no one lives forever and we will all grow up into that somebody we wished of becoming to, but all those sweet and wonderful memories of being a child will forever remain in us.
What’s the first thing that comes into your mind when you see children playing around? I enjoy just seeing those kids roaming around having no worries at all because I remembered those times when I was still a kid like them. It’s nice being a child because a child has no worries. All he does is live his life and enjoy it as much as possible. There are those unlucky ones who were not able to enjoy the benefits of life. We are lucky enough to have our family to support and give us what we need in this chaotic world. There are lots to think about being a child, all those wonderful childhood memories.
Funny, isn’t it? When I remember those times when I was still a kid. There are thousands of memories but only a few can be remembered. I can’t stop giggling and staring at the baby pictures I have because they remind me of how cute and funny I was before. I will surely miss those times when I only got to play and not thinking of any responsibility.
Children don’t carry any burden because they are not prepared yet and that is what I love about it. I guess everybody wants to be worried free but we all have to grow and face responsibilities and realities in life. One good thing about being a kid is that all you do is play around, eat, sleep and of course, learn and discover a lot of things. It feels good to be a child because everyone’s attention is on you. That’s true, especially if you do things that please most of the people. There are still a lot of things that a child pleasing in their own way. Sometimes, the children are even the ones who ease the pain of their love ones by just giving them the warmest hug that only a child can. The happy moments, the wonderful thoughts of being a child will play a big part on our lives because what we were in the past will affect who, we will be in the future.
Childhood could only happen once in a lifetime and perhaps you will miss one half of your life if you were not able to enjoy it as much as every child should. We all go to a different stage in our life after childhood and we cannot go back because the days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from our prevalent Father above and if we don’t use these God given gifts, He carry them as silently away. I know no one lives forever and we will all grow up into that somebody we wished of becoming to, but all those sweet and wonderful memories of being a child will forever remain in us.
Teenager's World
Teenagers are those people at the age of thirteen to nineteen. It is said to be that youth at this stage is hard to handle.
You are so lucky, when I was your age . . . these and a lot more are some of the most unpleasant words we often hear from our parents. Sometimes too irritating, other times very reasonable. But whatever sermons may come from our parents there is only one thing common to us teenagers, and that is we don’t care.
Many studies were made recently on why teenagers behave in a manner that is really irritating to the grown-ups. According to some books, teenagers act that way because their brains frontal lobes are still developing.
I think grown-ups need not treat teenagers in a manner that they are not too harsh to be true. As a teenager myself, I hate being told because when they do that, I feel like I have no freedom to express myself and it seems like they don’t trust me. But I know my limitations also, and I know when to be silent and when to react.
Teenagers nowadays to include myself are hard headed. We love to contradict with other people’s decisions. No wonder, when grown-ups pinpoint our mistakes, we become more rebellious and less affectionate. Many said, we are too difficult to understand, we are unpredictable and adults don’t know what is on their heads, the next thing they know, they are surprise. We are imitative. We love to imitate other people especially those that they idolize. Actresses, actors, band members and others of their abilities and social status are usually the people that we love to follow. We, teens love to explore and most of these are usually against our parents like smoking cigarettes for instance, are some of the things they do for curiosity sake.
If you want to be a part of the high-class group, you must own the latest cell phone model. You need to listen to rock or pop music to be with your friends. Sometimes being a teenager would mean a big spender. Teens need to spend a lot of money in order for us to look and act cool. Some of us are going beyond our limit, that’s why some of them are engaged in drugs. But they didn’t realize that with their involvement in prohibited drugs, they are trying to destroy their lives and their future. And who will suffer after, it is still they.
The memory of my mother’s daily words is still fresh in my mind, every morning “ you are so lucky, when I was at your age I used to walk a hundred miles on my way to school with only five pesos in my pocket. I even picked up guava fruits from the hills in exchange for five sheets of paper.” Then with my mother’s sermons, though irritating, I learned a lot from her experiences and when I make comparisons, I have come to realize that I am the luckiest teenager in the world. I have parents who always give me good moral values and incomparable parental love. To us all teenagers we should live our lives to the fullest because teenage days come only once in our lifetime.
You are so lucky, when I was your age . . . these and a lot more are some of the most unpleasant words we often hear from our parents. Sometimes too irritating, other times very reasonable. But whatever sermons may come from our parents there is only one thing common to us teenagers, and that is we don’t care.
Many studies were made recently on why teenagers behave in a manner that is really irritating to the grown-ups. According to some books, teenagers act that way because their brains frontal lobes are still developing.
I think grown-ups need not treat teenagers in a manner that they are not too harsh to be true. As a teenager myself, I hate being told because when they do that, I feel like I have no freedom to express myself and it seems like they don’t trust me. But I know my limitations also, and I know when to be silent and when to react.
Teenagers nowadays to include myself are hard headed. We love to contradict with other people’s decisions. No wonder, when grown-ups pinpoint our mistakes, we become more rebellious and less affectionate. Many said, we are too difficult to understand, we are unpredictable and adults don’t know what is on their heads, the next thing they know, they are surprise. We are imitative. We love to imitate other people especially those that they idolize. Actresses, actors, band members and others of their abilities and social status are usually the people that we love to follow. We, teens love to explore and most of these are usually against our parents like smoking cigarettes for instance, are some of the things they do for curiosity sake.
If you want to be a part of the high-class group, you must own the latest cell phone model. You need to listen to rock or pop music to be with your friends. Sometimes being a teenager would mean a big spender. Teens need to spend a lot of money in order for us to look and act cool. Some of us are going beyond our limit, that’s why some of them are engaged in drugs. But they didn’t realize that with their involvement in prohibited drugs, they are trying to destroy their lives and their future. And who will suffer after, it is still they.
The memory of my mother’s daily words is still fresh in my mind, every morning “ you are so lucky, when I was at your age I used to walk a hundred miles on my way to school with only five pesos in my pocket. I even picked up guava fruits from the hills in exchange for five sheets of paper.” Then with my mother’s sermons, though irritating, I learned a lot from her experiences and when I make comparisons, I have come to realize that I am the luckiest teenager in the world. I have parents who always give me good moral values and incomparable parental love. To us all teenagers we should live our lives to the fullest because teenage days come only once in our lifetime.
Scrabble as my Favorite Sport
A sport is an active pastime; diversion. It is a specific diversion, usually involving physical exercise and having a set form and body of rules; game. The word sport is derived from the Middle English sporten, meaning to amuse.
Do you have your own favorite sport? A favorite sport is a sport you like best or the sport that you love to play at most times. It can be your pastime. You can play your favorite sport when you have nothing to do at home or in school or when you are bored.
Like many others, I also have my own favorites including the favorite sport. My favorite sport is Scrabble. Do you know why scrabble is my favorite sport? It is because playing Scrabble is fun and introduces new words that you haven’t known and discovered yet. It is fun forming different words out of the seven letter tiles.
By the way, Scrabble is a word game for two, three or four players. The play consists of forming interlocking words, crossword fashion, on the Scrabble playing board using letter tiles with various score values. The biggest score value is ten and the lowest score value is zero. The letters that correspond the biggest score value are Q and Z; while the letters that correspond the lowest score value are the two blanks or MB. Other letters contain the score values eight, five, four, three, two and one. This game is also related to the English subject. It is because it includes the English lessons such as forming plurals of nouns, principal parts of a verb, words with affixes and words with suffixes.
The materials for this game or the playing tools are the scrabble board, four letter tile racks and the letter tiles. The letter tiles contain different letters from A-Z with score values. The letter tile racks hold the letters while you are waiting for your turn and the scrabble board is where you will put the letter tiles with formed words. This game also uses a scoring sheet for the list of scores in every turn and, of course, a pen for writing the scores. By the way, to win this game, you should aim of having the highest score among the other players.
Playing Scrabble contributes to your knowledge in English. In Scrabble, you can gain a lot of knowledge especially in forming the plural forms of nouns and I spelling skills.
Scrabble can be played anywhere because the Scrabble board is handy. Actually, it is mostly played indoors and whatever season we have, whatever is the weather; you can always play it any time.
I am encouraging you to play this word game, Scrabble, and you will surely have fun and can gain a lot of knowledge from it. You will have fun especially if you will learn how to play the game.
Other sports are also fun and exciting. I even play many of those such as chess, badminton, dama, and others. But, I won’t change my favorite sport because I know how to play the game and it is an educational game. Playing Scrabble is really very fun and exciting!!!
My Favorite Pet
A pet is a domesticated animal kept for pleasure rather than utility. Some examples of pets are dogs, rabbits, cats, chickens, fishes, birds, hamsters and etcetera. Do you have pets at home? Which of those pets of yours do you love, like best or which of those is your favorite?
My favorite pet is a dog. I like dogs because they are very pleasant to nice and kind people but are dangerous and bites people who were unkind towards them. They are also faithful to the person that loves and cares for them. Dogs are said to be a man’s best friend. It is because of their characteristics and traits that I have mentioned earlier. By the way, before I go on with my essay about my favorite pet, the definition of a dog, as defined in the American Desk Encyclopedia is a carnivorous mammal of the family Canidae, usually with long legs, long muzzle and bushy tail, that lives by chasing its prey. Many of the dogs live in packs. Domestic dogs are members of the species Canis familiaris. By the way, packs here are defined as groups of animals.
As what I have said earlier, my favorite pet is a dog and I actually have four of them in our house. I named them Tricker, Mally, Sweetie and Wendy. But, unfortunately, one of my beloved dogs died and that is the one named Wendy. She died because she was killed, cooked and eaten by my unkind relatives. She was killed without our permission and we were really shocked when we heard that she was already dead. Let us leave that unpleasant memory of mine. Back to my favorite pets, my favorite dog is Tricker. He is very playful and nice to us. He always chases a cat. He is also wise, intelligent and very protective to us. He can really be called a man’s best friend. I can say that he is very protective in the sense that when he sees somebody, who he thinks that will harm us and cannot do anything good for us, he barks at them scares them and sometimes chases them but does not necessarily bite them. I can say that he is wise because whenever he sees us dressed for a walk, for school or for malling, he immediately rushes or runs out from our house so that he would not be tied up inside our house. We only tie him up inside our house if all of us will not be staying home.
Mally, one of my pet dogs is my second favorite. He is still a puppy and is very cute. His color is brown. He is also playful and always goes with the big dogs in chasing the cats. He always bites my school uniform when I arrived home. His mother is Sweetie. Sweetie is my dog that guards our house including my aunts’ and uncles’ houses. She always barks at suspicious people that she sees. She also howls when she sees something horrible at night.
Those three dogs of mine were also good pets. It is because whenever I’m stressed from school; my stress can be relieved with their help because they make me happy.
A Family Affair to Remember
A family affair is a big event where in the members of the family including the relatives will be united and the long time friends that haven’t met for a long time will meet again. It has an aim to unite the members of the family especially the ones that has arguments with each other to reconcile and unite in one memorable event.
The family affair that I am talking about is the Family Day that happened recently in the University of the
There is so much that happened in our Family Day ’07. Since this is our first time to attend in the Family Day in U.P. High, we really have fun and excitement. There are games, and contests. We even won in the highest seller of raffle tickets and we also won in the biggest participation because others bring their relatives, friends and former classmates. It is also in our section that won in the earliest person that arrived first in the U.P. high. It is because he came in the school at twelve o’ clock in the midnight of February 24, 2007.This student that I am referring to is my classmate, Ariel Latras. This is the day that our projects in school were displayed in our Home Technology Room for the Open House. This is also the day that our hand made letters such as the Love letters and the Thank You letters for our parents and sisters were given to them. This is also the day that we presented our Seagull Dance entitled Lapay Bantigue in the open stage. We offered this dance for our parents.
I am also very happy on this day because my classmate, Axl Rose Arnejo, came to the school. She happened to come to our school because she was brought by Rea Jeanica Sabijon, my classmate recently and my classmate in my elementary years. I am very happy because how I wish we will have our batch ’05- ’06 reunion so that I can see again my former classmates and friends.
If there is a happy thing, there is also a sad thing. It is because Madam Erlinda Gallo, our Science A, B, and C teacher and class adviser had her farewell speech and she was crying when she delivered her speech because she was a teacher in our school for many years (about two decades) and she is really a good teacher but now she is going to retire because she wanted to stay home. Even my classmates cried too.
As a first timer in U.P. High’s Family Day ’07, I can really say that it is fun and exciting!!! I hope that it could also be fun and exciting next year!
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