..personal values check list..

10 most important values to me:

1. adventure

2. challenge

3. creativity

4. friendship

5. love.romance

6. positive attitude

7. quality of work

8. simplicity

9. skill

10. unity

..journal entry # 2..

My first week at MCL was enjoyable but also tiring. At first i felt very nervous because I'm not familiar with the place. But luckily, I have met a friend and as days goes by, I started to know and gain more friends who are so fun to be with. Though I need more time to adjust, I'm sure it won't be hard enough.

I know that all my professors are very approachable and I strongly feel it. During my first day, I was able to meet my drawing professor which is Professor. Henry L. Paz. He's strict when it matters about drawing but he's not that strict after all. Then I met Professor. Jane Gargasin, my professor in SS016 or social science. She's very jolly and I love the way she teach. It seems like she's very energetic and her voice is very "malambing". On the following day, I met Professor. Ria Grace Abdon, my math professor. At first I thought she was very strict but I was wrong, she was very helpful after all. She never leaves a single lesson unless we fully understands it. And after that I met my professor in values, Professor. Remilyn Mondez. I met her during the MELT. She was kind and I admire her because she talks fluently in English. I wish I could be fluent in speaking in English someday. On our third subject for the second day which was humanities, our professor in that course was Professor. Rowena Dela Cruz. She told us that we can call her Ma'am DC. I love the way she discuss our lesson because she's also the energetic type. She doesn't make the subject a boring one to everybody in the class. During humanities, she always gives examples which we can relate ourselves and make us laugh. Then on the third day, I met our IT professor which is Professor. Leonell De Mesa. At first silence covered the laboratory until he introduces himself and after that we introduced ourselves too. He's a bit of a serious type but he teaches very well. On the fourth day, I gladly met Professor. Rovilla Sudaprasert, my professor in English. Her surname sounds very unfamiliar to me. She also teaches very well and she's very kind too. She has a soft voice and she's also fluent in speaking English. And lastly, I met my professor in P,E. I just met him last Friday during our first P.E orientation. He was Professor. Mendelson Cabalig. He's cool and I like him. He's interrogating us, I mean he asks question about our love life during our orientation. hehehe.. XD Even though they have their unique characteristics and traits, I love listening to them because I learned something new from them that can help me achieve my goal.

About my block mates, they are very naughty and very funny as well. Some of them acts very weird, others are just plain quiet, and the rest are jolly type of people. I enjoy being with them. Whatever their traits are, it doesn't matter as long as we understand each other. I think our strength is our happiness. When one of us makes a funny joke, the rest can't help but laugh with everybody, making the whole class very happy. I think our weakness is some of our subjects especially drawing and math. Some of us are not good in drawing as well as in math so they are finding it hard to get a high score or a high grade. But I know each of us our trying to do our very best to pass our subjects.

I find all my courses as challenging. It always challenges me to do much better and to study more hard. Some are not too easy and not too hard, others are just right. I find humanities and math easy for now but not that very easy. And I find drawing as the very challenging ones.

In terms of academic, I think I don't need too much adjustment. For now the courses are simply easy and I can still handle it. In emotions, I'm still adjusting on handling stresses. In social environment? Not so. Because I'm on my third week now and I'm now familiar on the places around the campus and I have plenty of friends now.

..making transition from high school to college..

Now that I have stepped on my college life, there are many changes that I have observed.

When I was in high school, I can't do a certain thing like waking up late, riding a jeepney or tricycle to go to school. Now in my college life, I'm attending an afternoon class so I can sleep longer than before unlike waking up very early in the morning to get prepared for the coming flag ceremony especially during Mondays and now that I'm studying at MCL which is located very far from our house, I have to ride a tricycle twice and a jeepney to go to it. When I'm studying at Queen Anne School of Sta. Rosa, my previous school, it's just a few distance away from home so it's just a walking distance.

My schedule before was very different from my schedule now. In my high school days, we discuss 8-9 subjects everyday but now, we're discussing 2-3 subjects everyday.

Back in my high school days, Saturdays are only for make-up classes, I mean for example: today is Wednesday and the classes are suspended until Friday because of a strong typhoon, we have to pay the day the classes are suspended so we can complete the attendance. So we have to attend classes on Saturdays depending on the number of days that the classes were suspended.

Before, we call our teachers "ma'am, ms. or sir" but now we call them the same or better way as "prof." as short for professor.

But even though college life is not exactly the same standards compare to high school life, I have to make an adjustment for myself so I can follow my way to my own success.

..after you have processed your first few experiences at MCL, in what way this will help you achieve successful adjustment in college..

We all have our own experiences in our lives. Experiences are important to us. They serves as memories in our mind. It might be a good ones or a bad ones but the sure thing is, we learn from these things.

During my first day at MCL, I felt very excited and nervous as well. Excited, because it's my first day there. Nervous, because I have no idea of what to do around there I mean I'm afraid that I might do something wrong without noticing that it's wrong after all [somewhat a thought like that]. But I learned to gain confidence and ease my shyness away. I should be prepared to face the new challenges in my life. I also learned to make new friends with the new faces around me.

I remember when I was late for my first subject, the drawing class, during my first day. I felt very ashamed. But after that I learned something from that experience. And since then, I always come to school before twelve. ahahaha :)

And after my 1st week at MCL, I started to earn more friends. At first I thought that some of my classmates are a snobbish type of people but as I befriended them, I get to know them better and knew that they are not what I have thought before. As of now, I have many friends in the class. We helped each other especially when we have assignment in math. But to clear things up, we don't copy each others assignment but we copy the given question because we don't have books yet.

Through these experiences, it helped me adjust successfully and will continually help me into my college life.

..how can values education work to your advantage..

Values education implies the teaching of people the right character an individual should possess to be able to be socially-accepted or to be a well-mannered person. This also refers to helping people to acquire moral habits that will help them to live good lives individually and at the same time to be productive and to be a contributing member of the community.

I first took up values education at home when I haven't start schooling yet, wherein my parents taught me the proper character or the right behavior I should do. They keep on reminding me not to do this, not to do that and so on. I still remember a time when we started schooling, my dad keeps on reminding us to behave in school and never to be naughty because the teacher might get angry. He also reminds us to be honest especially when being asked of a serious question. From time to time, he always says, "darling,please behave", "please talk politely to elder people", "never say bad words", the things that I also learned from school, to have an attitude. My teacher's in GMRC or CBA teaches us to be generous, to be kind, to be nice, to be friendly because they always say, people can determine how your parents take care of you through your values or the way you interact with people and how you treated them.

I have learned so many things in values education when I started to step on my high school life. I find values education as a very enjoying and interesting subject eventhough for others they might find it boring. Why? Because we are being taught to share our experiences. I mean you should not be ashamed to share those crazy stuffs you have done,your experiences or stories with other people around you. For you can learn something new or discover a new thing that you have never done before with those experiences. Hence values education really educated me with values. It helps me acquire moral habits that will help me to individually live a good life and at the same time to be productive and to be a contributing member of the community.

As I noticed the lives of famous people, I always ask myself how do they become very successful and famous. And as I discover the answers, I always end up thinking that their values really affect them. Their values guided them and propelled them to the top of their own fields. Whatever our values are, as long as we keep them in our hearts and minds, great accomplishment and success will sure follow.

So for me, values education is really significant to one's success. When we identify the values that are meaningful to us, we should implement it and apply those values in our daily lives. We just have to learn to adopt values to attract the achievement or success that we are aiming for.