Teaching for a Living

This School Year 2014-2015 is a blast both for my personal life and professional career. My professional career has been nostalgic in the sense that I was able to gauge a lot of professional growth, advancement, and development as a teacher. Likewise, my personal life has been melancholic for it was blurred with a lot of challenges, especially in my family, that stricken and shaken my principle and stability in life. Though a lot of opportunities in my professional career had brought tremendous successes, I felt half-empty. I know there are areas that I neglected doing or taking care of. When I reflect on it, it’s the same story last year. It is quite alarming for me: I know I have and I should do something about it. For it seems that I was not able to strengthen my weaknesses. These weaknesses had brought backlashes in my career. Such incidences also affect my colleagues and I felt culprit on doing such mistakes for I know at some point, some of these mistakes are truly unforgivabl...

The Penitence or Penitensiya in Filipino is a tradition observed and participated by Filipino catholic-devotees, commonly executed by men, in portraying and exemplifying the hardships and sufferings of Jesus in His last days. This is typically done during the Lenten season, where men carried cross slashed their back, and even made themselves crucified. To some, such practice is impractical and non-sense, but to the people doing and keeping the practice for the forgiveness of their sins and for the grant of their wishes, such an act is worth doing for. Jesus served as the greatest teacher for Christians around the world. Like what Jesus did, teachers envision to follow His footsteps in spreading learning, truth, peace, justice, and God’s words to mankind. Like Him, teachers also experienced hardships and sufferings in this world. But since teaching is a noble profession, these hardships and sufferings are viewed by teachers as sacrifices that they must and should do for every le...