I was the teacher’s pet way back in grade school. I enjoyed all the attention and took full advantage of the additional privileges. For example, my teacher would use my notes in giving out quiz questions so my notebook served as the perfect reviewer. She would ask me to help her grade our test papers [...]
When you see someone lying on the road, don’t just walk by. He just may be your child or your sister or your mother… When a family member is hurting, and we don’t even bother investing our time to pay attention, to listen, to care… Because we’re in a hurry. Because we’re busy. Because we [...]
It was graduation day. All the students were fussing over the seating arrangements and my aunt Nene, as their teacher, supervised them. When everyone had settled down, I found my aunt standing next to the Valedictorian. She asked him “So, you made it all the way to the end and all the way to the [...]
When I was in grade school, the first activity that we usually do in school after Christmas vacation is to write our New Year’s resolution in not less than two hundred words. It has been a routinary activity that we keep on doing every New Year. But as I grew older, I tried to ask [...]