My Socially Constructed Reality

I was so hopeless at the time I'm about to step in my third year of being a MASS COMMUNICATION student. Honestly no money for school expenses though I'm a 100% scholar of the school, I still need to pay miscellaneous fees and other lab fees. I've got a lot of problems about family matter, social life, time management, schooling, and spiritually. I applied in every part-time jobs with vacancies, but still failed. I entered the business world, I sell almost everything; bags, make-ups, perfumes, dresses, candies, beauty products, slimming products, slippers, watches, belts, accessories,etc.- and again failed. I'm really terrified, I don't know what to do or where to go. Until I visited my teacher's office. My teacher since first year up to present. She's so intelligent and when the first day I saw and met her I already admired her. And wished to be as good as her. I've learned a lot from her, not on

Slowly, I opened my eyes. The sight was blurred. Everything was white. But I could hear people talking though I couldn't seem to understand what they were talking about. I closed my eyes. A minute after, I tried to open my eyes again. Better sight this time. I saw small beds and people wearing white gowns walking around. When I moved my head, one of them approached me, "Mrs., can you move your feet?" I realized she was a nurse. I responded to her by trying to move my foot. I was successful. It moved. Then the other one. I was able to move the other foot. Then I tried to lift my hand and look at what felt heavy in one of my fingers. A monitoring device was clipped on my left hand's pointing finger. Then I heard the machine on the upper left hand corner. I looked at it. Still blurred, I knew it was a machine monitoring my heart beat and my pulse. Toot--- toot --toot... "Mrs., we will bring you to the ward now." "What time is it?" I a

Time to go back home! Happy New Year! Who's afraid of the goat? Not Charles! Steffi posing with the plants Kuya Noel's (my husband's brother) first grand child: JOSHUA Steffi posing while assuming to water the plants :-) Danie is forcing the guinea pig to eat grass Danie in the province :-) Danie posing with the cow in the bg Charles, Stef, Danie and I My family and I had photo op on the day after Christmas Smile! Charles and Danie feeding the goat Danie's favorite thing to do: feed the baby goat Danie is reading a book on a Christmas Day. Kids are dancing. Look at Danie, always graceful! Let kids be kids! They're cousins: Tom, Argiel, Lance, Danie, Charles and Stef Danie with her cousin, Argiel First photo op with Danie and Papa A visit at the poultry Kids' first stop in the morning of Dec. 24: pig pen Danie greeted our first morning in Camiling with a sweet smile!

I left the busy city of Angeles on Dec. 23 with my whole family. We left here at 11 am and arrived in Camiling, Tarlac -- my husband's hometown -- at around 2:30 p.m. Family life and work in the city are both stressful for me and for my hubby so the ten-day break was the best way to get a chance to finally rejuvenate. LIfe in the city is very convenient yet very complicated. On the other hand, life in the province is very simple yet, for me, very difficult. It's simple because unlike in the city, you don't have to pay for everything you need. For example, here in the city, we pay for literally every move that we take. Well, bills pile up every month : water, electricity, Internet, service tricycle, and house rent. In the province, they don't have to pay for water because they use "poso" to get the water they need. But the thing is, using it takes much effort and time. Also, there's no Internet fee to pay for but the world there is rather limited: y