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1. https://youtu.be/j-MMiPZoxZc

2. https://youtu.be/8KtPv9AoVVs

3. https://youtu.be/-NihAJHN314

Among the three videos I watched, the one that most touched my heart is the 3rd one entitled 'First Love'. It is about a father and his daughter/son who is already married and the love between them is very strong. All of the videos are very heartwarming and made me into tears. The first video, entitled 'Pamasko', relates to OFW parents. The second one, entitled 'Amor', is about a single mom working hard for her children. I don't know why I cried so much for the third video but maybe because of the thought that the one you love since his/her childhood has already been into marriage, and the one who loves you since you're still young will be apart from you and live your own life with your partner. I can't still relate to this one but I hope that when the time comes that I will be married, all of the love between my parents and me will not fade even though I found the love of my life that I will live with forever. I will treasure the love they gave to me since I've been born and how they taught me how to love myself and other people. They will be my one and only father and mother and I will follow their steps for being the best parents in the world for my future sons and daughters. I hope that this kind of Ideal Family will come true that I will be living in the future.

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After doing the task given to us by our teacher which is to answer a test to identify what is our love language, I found out that my primary love language is the 'Acts of Service'. I've answered the Teens Quiz. There are two scenarios given in each turn and my way of answering them is that I chose the one which I believe is more suitable and favorable for me. There are lots of questions given in the quiz, and the result says that my love language is the Acts of Service which I believe is very true. I have the lowest percentage in terms of 'Words of Affirmation' and 'Receiving Gifts' because I believe that actions speak more than words, and maybe also because I am shy in saying 'I love you' to other people. And in terms of giving gifts, it's just that I don't appreciate the sense of it since I don't often receive and give gifts to the people who are special to me.

Showing my actions to the people I love is the best option for me to express my feelings towards them. Even though I still didn't experience a dating kind of relationship, when it comes to my friends and family, showing my love to them is more on actions. Servicing the people you love also comes with giving your 'Quality Time' to them. Helping out with their assignments and projects at school, in household chores, and in times of their need and trouble, I am ready and willing to devote myself to them to make them feel better and their stresses to be minimized.

The most important thing that I learned from here is that, no matter what other people that you love do to you, never say that they don't love you at all. Examine and identify first their mode of expressing their love towards you, or their love language, whether it is in 'Words of Affirmation, 'Acts of Service', 'Quality Time', 'Receiving Gifts', or 'Physical Touch'. All forms of expressing love are important and must be cherished so that you and your loved ones will have a happy and strong relationship.

Take Away

Leadership is one's ability to lead and govern other people. At first, I believe and I thought that I have no such ability as a person since I am shy in socializing with other people. But then after Ma'am Tadena told us that leadership is naturally with us since we are born, I realized that when it comes to group projects and activities in our online class, I often give my insights and ideas to my group mates. This circumstance is one of the leadership processes that we discussed, the 'Transactional Process' which refers to the leader and members are working together as a group. I have to admit that I am bad at approaching other people the first time that we met, but when I am asked to share my ideas with them, I am openly willing to do so because I want to cooperate and build a relationship with them.

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My Love Story

This story that I'm going to share to you is not a story that you've usually seen between two lovers, or any romantic relationships you know. This love story that I am talking is about friendship. How do you define friendship? Do you consider it as a kind of love towards other people also? Because for me, it is!

This story took place when I was in my junior high school days. In school, I have those people who I considered as 'friends' like my classmates. In my 10th grade, I considered our section as my second family. Laughing and helping each other out from the problems we're facing on. I have lots of memorable days with them, those days when we practice for our theatre plays, practice our cheerdance, I really miss those moments with them. We give our extra time after our classes for our performances then after the practice, we go home already dark. But when we graduated, many of us parted our ways. This is then I realized if what happens to me if I go to a journey where I'm alone? Do I still have friends left for me to lean on?

As we became Senior High students already, I moved to Liceo University. This was a place for me where I feel amazed but worried at the same time. This kind of environment is totally a whole new world for me. But then there was my old classmates from my 10th grade who had been together with me. Jacob, Riza, Rica, Dave, and Carl, this people had been with me since I entered the university. We became more close, and established an intimate relationship with each other. We have made activities and bondings together. After our classes, we go to a place to have fun or to eat, attend bible studies together, and also when going home. This is then the moment when I realized that this is my first time to encounter of having real friends. I never admitted to myself that I have this 'bestfriends' since high school, maybe because I just learned on how to scrutinize on what kind of people I am encountering with, but then I learned that this kind of friends were really true to me. Dealing with the problems together if ever we have misunderstands, and having fun together established our friendship. Having this kind of relationship is really a big help for me on how to overcome situations and adjust to the new environment where I am.

But when you say to me if ever I had been in a BF-GF relationship, my answer is no! I am proud of it, it's a kind of thing that is not being rushed just to have one. It's a commitment, and I am not ready for one. I still want to enjoy my life as an adolescent and focus on my studies and I don't need this kind of distraction. I am satisfied of the relationships with my family and friends that I have now. There is the perfect time for that, so as for the meantime, I am still working on myself that I can stand by my feet on my own until I'm ready to meet that person who will be with me in reaching my dreams.

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"Trust God's perfect timing; never early, never late. It takes a little patience and a whole lot of faith... But it's worth the wait."

-CTTO

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What makes you happy? When are you happy?

Many people knows that I'm a happy person. I love making other people happy because that makes me happy too. Hanging out with friends, bonding with my family, watching anime, playing online games, playing with my pets, going to a place for adventure, those are just some of the things that makes me happy or lighten up my mood. Doing the things I love let me express myself and have some fun.

Seeing other people who are close to me laughing at my jokes or having fun with something they are doing with me just makes me smile and really happy because I know that there are people who I can share with my happiness.

But life is not just all about happiness, it has also it's ups and downs. We people should cherish those things that makes us happy and not let ourselves be devoured by our sadness and misery. Let us all remember that we don't live once, but we die once, that's why we must live our lives to the fullest.

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Left Dominant / Right Dominant ?

After doing the activity, I found out that I belong to 'the people of science' because I am more left dominant. According to the video, people who are more dominant to the left side of their brain are more logical and analytical thinkers, more good at understanding languages and speaking, thinks through all the pros and cons before doing anything significant, easily build algorithms or logical arguments, and sees first the details before the bigger picture.

I think I really do belong in this type of people because I prefer mostly numbers to be involved than words, I also think over through things and the reasons or logic that's happening behind them. When I'm making decisions, I think of what are the outcomes or consequences that comes after it. Lastly, I am not really creative in expressing myself to others but I love to understand and analyze what kind person an individual is, give or ask them advices if ever, and share thoughts about a certain topic.

Our brain is considered as the most powerful part of our body. It is a delicate organ that's why we must be very careful with our brain. Exercising it as shown on the video presented helps us to maintain our brain healthy and prevent us from having Alzheimer's Desease and any other deseases that may harm our brain. It is important so that as we grow older, our brain will maintain it's many functions, and having a healthy brain also means healthy living.

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What are the challenges that you face and how can you manage them?

As we all know that all of the events in our lives such as working, school, shopping, etc. are already happening online because of the pandemic. It is way more convenient for us most all of the time, but there are also cases that not all people can access this things. This is one of the challenges that I've been facing sometimes, having a weak bandwidth of internet connection. This affects my studies because I can't properly listen to our teacher's discussions and I can't execute well my learnings for the given activity sheets and activities. I managed this by asking for my classmates and teachers the recorded video of our classes and the ppt's of our topics so that I will be not left behind in our discussions.

Do you believe that adolescence is a period of stress and storm? Why?

Adolescence is trully a challenging stage in our lives because of all of the responsibilities that we shoulder as adolescents. This responsibilities stresses us out if we can't properly manage our time or can't shoulder anymore this heavy responsibilities. This is because we are becoming an adult, and this are the challenge for us to ready ourselves so that we can be able to properly and effectively handle things when we become already fully grown adults.

What situation do you consider as a positive stress as a negative stress? Are you aware of your tipping point when it comes to stress?

All of the people have stressors in their lives. It is on theirselves if they treat this stressors as a positive or a negative one. But for me, positive stress are those stresses that makes a person preoccupied in a positive way. This kind of stress makes those people who are stuck in their boredom to have some things to do finally. While I considered those negative stress as a type of stress where it gives harm and damage to people's lives. Stress at work, at school, social pressure, and family expectations to a person are examples of negative stress. In my case, I will know if I'm already stressed or I'm at my tipping point when I feel physically exhausted and mentally full of the things that I'm doing.

But we must all remember that we are all experiencing stress, not just you or me but all of us. It is on how we handle the stressors in our lives and let's not let ourselves be physically, mentally, and emotionally affected by this stress and let us take this as a challenge instead which has the goal of improving ourselves to be tougher in facing this challenges and become a person and an adolescent who's more capable in handling situations that we're all facing.

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Bringing back those memories during my childhood reminds me of the best times of my life. Going to school, playing with friends outdoors all day long, dancing under the rain, delicious foods being served by mom, bed-time stories, those are the only things that I am concerned about in my childhood. But in my adolescent years, all of those things are gone. Being an adolescent means being matured, and being matured means having responsibilities. This responsibilities preoccupies me from doing the things I want to do compared to my childhood times where I have all of the single second to have fun and enjoy myself in doing the things I love.

Being an adolescent is not an easy role, it follows many responsibilities. Taking care of your health, work hard in your studies, budget your financial needs, this are the things that keeps in telling me by my parents. All of those things stresses me out already as I am thinking if I can take on the pressure of these never-ending obligations as an adolescent. But we must also bare in mind that this experiences in our adolescent years are also helping us to prepare ourselves in the upcoming future. It teaches us on how to be more independent or self-reliant, smart decision-maker, more self-confident, capable of working under pressure, and develop our overall identity. Adolescence doesn't always means doing things under pressure while leaving life without having fun, it's just that we are being prepared on how to become a responsible adult and a good role model for everyone behind us so that we can be able to secure our future and live the life that we're dreaming for.

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After listening to the song 'Forgiveness' by Matthew West, I found out the lyrics of the song as a very meaningful one. It teaches us people on how love our enemies. Forgiveness is a hard thing to do especially when forgiving those people who we feel as not worthy of our forgiveness at all. Even though those people had trully given us pain or hurt us, forgiving them is the way to forget what they did to us. When we give our forgiveness, it doesn't mean that we accepted or tolerated what they did to us, it's just that we forgive so that we can forget and move-on.

In my own experience, I had met this person since my high school days, he became one my friends since then. He made fun of me to satisfy himself from boredom, but as his friend I didn't mind at all. When we became senior high school students, I realize that he only treats me good if there is something he wants from me, but there are also times that he isn't being mindful to himself. His actions tells me that we're not friends at all. But after joining some bible studies and recollection during the days of face-to-face classes, I learned that forgiveness is a powerful tool that sets us free. Just like how our God forgive us from all of our sins, how come that we can't forgive that we're just only humans? Nobody is perfect except God as they say, that's why we must understand and give chances to those people who've hurt us and let them explain their side of why did they do such thing. If we can't forgive, we just lost the chance of being forgiven also by those people that we hurt. But first, we must also learn how to forgive ourselves before forgiving other people.

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For my 17 years of existence in this world, I have known myself so much. I know of what are my likes and dislikes, my hobbies, my favorite color, favorite food, favorite movies, I know those people who I considered as my friends and family, I know what kind of circle of people do I belong, and I know my positive and negative traits as a person. I'm an introverted person when I'm surrounded by those people that I don't know or not familiar to me. But I can be funny and talkative when I'm around my friends. I am also become sensitive because I always compare myself to other people who I look up to. To avoid myself to being insecure or lower my self-esteem, I take it as a motivation to work harder instead.

I learned all of this things about myself because as I grow up, I become more self conscious and I develop more my self-awareness. People around me also give advices on how to become a better person. When I listen to their opinions, I take it seriously and make adjustments to myself if ever they are correcting me. I set my limitations to what are right or wrong thing that I'm doing and open myself to other people so that they can help me to overcome my self-issues.

Knowing all of this information about myself is a big help for me as a person. This tells me of what kind of person I want to be and how to become that ideal self as what I am right now. There is nothing wrong in helping other people, being selfless is not a bad thing, but we must first value and prioritize ourselves and know ourselves before helping other people.