Finally I'm Graduating (Reminiscing the past 8 years)

         Education means the world to me. Ever since I was a little kid, I would take advantage of every ounce of learning that I could get. I always wanted to learn new things because it made me felt like I understood a little more about the world that we lived in. 

         I went to college when I was 16, but unfortunately I needed to leave during my first year because my father met an accident and could no longer work. I don't regret leaving at all to help my family. Although, that time achieving my dream of finishing college became very blurry. It was also that time that we encountered a lot of hardships and difficulties in life.
        It’s been 8 years since my father had nearly die in an accident. After his survival, I chose to stop my  studies. Because of the accident, there were things which he could no longer do, and that includes working. My mother looked for a job which enables him to look for my father at the same time. I decided to helped her and applied as a saleslady. I was working for nearly three years then when my father decided to start doing light jobs again.  I’m still pinning my hope on education; I know that it’s the only way I could get to free us from poverty. What made me still dream for the future is by focusing not on the adversities that I endured, but rather on the lessons and skills that I learned from them. So despite of the uncertainties, I decided to went back to school which enables me to appreciate my education even more.

       I quit my job and applied for a scholarship in Ateneo de Naga University. The school granted me a student assistantship program wherein I am required to work everyday for a 21 units tuition fee. Sometimes, it became difficult for me especially during enrollment. There are always conflicts between my working schedules and my classes. There were times when I had to buy books or projects and in order to afford them I just skipped meals and walked to and from the school.

       I was just so fortunate that I saw the PCAFPD organization while I'm surfing the net so what I did was I applied for an additional scholarship. I passed and they shouldered my other school expenses like miscellaneous fees and they had given me regular allowances. After a few semesters I was able to upgrade my scholarship wherein I do not have to work anymore because Ateneo had got me a benefactor.With the additional scholarships that were  granted to me, our financial burdens were alleviated.
           And now that the culmination of years of my work and struggle is near, I'l be graduating with a Magna cum Laude Honor. I am very thankful because it will successfully ends through the guidance of my loving and caring parents and most especially with the help of the PCAFPD Organization and Mr. and Mrs. Alberto Palacio who supported my scholarship. It is a lifetime gratitude that I’ll forever treasure especially to those people who wholeheartedly donated their money along with the trust that I can be someone, in the near future through the education that I got.

Beyond Horizon

        I know many people out there will never understand me. Why I did the things that I have done. But If you only know me beyond what the eyes can see, beyond the ears can hear,  I know you can Understand me. If you got to know me beyond the horizon, I'm sure your hearts will comprehend the reasons of my every actions. It may not all seem right but from my perspective I just needed to do those things. Each person's truth is shape by their own experiences that is why I believe that no one can truly understand a person  but the person itself only.