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          I feel grateful and happy that I passed all the challenges for the first quarter. I'm also very thankful that my family and friends are there for me. Without their help, I think I won't make it to the end. Hopefully they won't get tired of me.           Problems and challenges doesn't end in the first quarter, it's just the starting point. Just like for the first quarter, I also encountered a lot of challenges this quarter. Sometimes, I'm doubting myself and a lot of self-questioning about my capabilities happens. But I found out that a little self-doubt can actually be a good thing. It’s good to know my limits and weaknesses because it gives me the ability to improve upon them. I learned to think positively and avoid negative thoughts.           Moving on, I will be more confident on everything I'll do. Instead of allowing challenges to get the best of me, I will practice self-compassion. This will als...

          February is known as the month of love and romance. Valentine's day is celebrated as a day of expressing love between families and friends, romantic couples and of course to yourself. Many restaurants have dinner promotion on Valentine's day and the food often presented with symbols of love such as flowers and hearts. Some people give greeting cards, jewelry, chocolate or flowers, particularly roses, to their partners or admirers on Valentine’s Day.            Every year, I celebrates Valentine's Day with my family. If we failed to express our love for them, Valentine's day is the best opportunity to express it. We celebrated it with eating and bonding together. We didn't have a grand celebration yet it's full of love and very meaningful. I also spent some alone time with myself. Even if there's a pandemic, we celebrated valentine's happy and contented. Having a special partner isn't the only aspect of love. It's also abou...

          Unlike previous years when the Kannawidan Festival is being celebrated for at least a month, this year, it only ran for a week starting Friday, January 29 until February 5. The residents of Ilocos Sur province had a simpler celebration of this year's annual Kannawidan Ylocos Festival. To prevent the spread of COVID-19, the provincial government, through its provincial tourism office, has declared strict guidelines to be followed during the festival.           Held in the Heritage City of Vigan, the festival opened at the Kannawidan Grounds in Barangay Tamag with the ribbon cutting of the Trade and Food Fair, where the one-town-one-product of the province's towns and cities was displayed. It was followed by the Holy Mass concelebrated at Saint Paul Cathedral in this city led by government workers from national and local offices, public officials and members of non-government-organizations. The Trade and Food Fair provides additi...

              Vigan City Fiesta is celebrated during the feast day of the conversion of St. Paul the Apostle, St. Paul is Vigan City’s patron saint, every January 25. The celebration usually lasts for several days. Colorful and grand, this fiesta express the joyful and vibrant lifestyle that the Bigueños exemplify every day. Locals and tourists gather to experience and see the street dancing, carnivals, food fairs, and arts and crafts. But because of the pandemic brought by covid-19 we can't do the things that we used to do.             In the previous years, Bigueños from different places usually return to their hometown to join their friends and families in the celebration of Vigan City Fiesta. We should enjoying the cultural shows, parades and street dancing prepared by the local government with the help of the local industries and communities but, because of covid-19 we can't. There’s no parade nor street dancing happe...

          We are humans with good and bad bundled together. Washing away unwanted habits from us and cultivating new and positive habits and disciplines as a part of life is necessary. Setting New Year Resolution is a good move to renew ourselves year after year. New Year has always seemed to me a beginning of a new cycle, or a new path of self-development, but I never write detailed resolutions, having only abstractive understanding of my plans for future. But this year will end with a following resolution.                     First of all, I would like to become more assertive. I need more confident and courage with all the things I would do. I also want to consider all my faults and failures for improvement. Sometimes, I'm very dependent upon the opinion of others so, I want to manage some situation without relying upon others imposition. Second, as students we should refine our thoughts, cultivate good habits...

                           The things that we used to take for granted like eating out, visiting family, hanging out with friends, and even just running errands are now things that we either have to make do without or have to be extra cautious because of the pandemic. As long as there’s no vaccine in sight, we may have to accept that things have to change if we are to stay alive.             One of the changes is the new way of learning. I had a lot of experiences for the first quarter. I discovered that, without the help of teachers, I barely understand the concepts of the modules. I would always prepare extra time to study them. Sometimes, I asked my friends for help. Because of this, I realized that I've became more independent. Lack of internet access is also one of the challenges, including sleeping late at night, not eating meals at the right time, and having a headache due to lack ...

              Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are dying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. It has become clear that humans have caused most of the past century's warming by releasing heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. What will we do? What can we do to slow this human-caused warming? How will we cope with the changes we've already set into motion? While we struggle to figure it all out, the fate of the Earth as we know it—coasts, forests, farms, and snow-capped mountains hangs in the balance.                     Climate change has already impacted ecosystems and humans. The warming of the earth’s surface is undermining our national food and energy security, and therefore requires broad and intensive information and educational campaign to impress on the general public the awesome and terrifying consequences of this phenomenon and to secure the collective ...