9 Stations of Violations in CavSci

Anywhere, everywhere, we can find people who commit mistakes and sins. Many of us, teenagers, do sins everyday. Because we stay at school for the whole day, we often do sins at school. Though we are not in hell, we could still find symbols in school for the nine rings of hell. I chose nine places in our school where the violations which symbolize the sins are often done.

1st. Gate. This is the first place in the school where we can do violations and tell lies. Yes, not only violations, but also lies. In the violations, there could be two possible things a student may do. The first one is he/she did not wear his/her identification card. We sometimes forget to wear it at home, so when we go to school, we do not have any I.D. The second one is being late. Students reason out that they're late because of plenty of school works or they just woke up late. In the lies, when the monitor in charge at the gate asks us the true reason why we did the violations, we sometimes tell lies. We tell lies to prevent getting into trouble.

2nd. Comfort Room. Students in our school are not allowed to bring cellphones. They cannot use their phones at the classrooms, so they go to the comfort rooms to use their phones. It could be not as bad as I think, but it is still a violation. Bringing cellular phones in school is a violation. 


3rd. Library. In the library, the most common violation is when we make noises. Yes, it is a violation, but there is still another violation in the library. It's when some students take books out of the library without any permission. Students are not allowed to take any book outside, but some still disobey the rules. Another is when we scatter the researches. We do not take care of the alumni's precious researches. Instead, we put them everywhere, making everything a total mess.

4th. Pathway. Students always forget about this violation. We often do this, but we never realized that it's a violation. The violation is when we talk with our classmates and friends about teachers. We make gossips about terror, lazy and other teachers. I chose the pathway because it's a place where students do nothing but walk and realizes things about teachers.

5th. Gym. During flag ceremonies and flag retreats, we are required to wear the correct attire and to behave and obey everything the platoon leader says. But sometimes, others do not obey the rules. Some hairs are untied, some socks aren't white, some hairs are too long, some identification cards are not with them and some uniforms are not properly worn. Students oftentimes make fun of the leaders and commanders. We think that these things are only simple, but they are still violations.

6th. Canteen. No one will ever think that there could be a violation here. But honestly speaking, there could be. It's a violation seldom uttered by the teachers because it's impossible for them to think that students will steal. I know a few who do those things, so the canteen could be considered as a station. Most of us do not do it, but it does not mean that we can't.

7th. Teacher's table. When teachers ask some things from us, we are expected to tell the truth. If someone did something wrong, students are obliged to tell the truth. But because we're afraid to, we lie. We lie because we do not want our classmates and friends to get angry to us. If you are wrong, you sometimes defend yourself to lessen the trouble. We do these things for ourselves, not for the best.

8th. Classroom. It's a place where students can commit many, many violations. First, vandalism. We do not give importance to the things that are not ours. Second, disobeying the teacher talking in front. Students study to learn, so we should learn how to obey elders, especially our teachers. Another is eavesdropping. Though it's not a violation, it could be a sin to listen to others' conversation. Lastly, backstabbing or simply fighting with our classmates. We are grouped by section to have them as our family, not enemies. Instead of fighting at their back, we should tell them how we feel towards them.

9th. Seats. The simplest place where we can commit the worst violations. This violation is cheating. We all know what it is. Some of us already did it. It's when we copy or look to our seatmate's answers because we do not know what the answer is. This reason is the dumbest reason for committing a violation because it's no one's fault but yours, so we do not have the right to get answers from those who studied hard. This dumbest reason, however, leads to the worst mistake in school.

Texting's Impact on Language

Texting has been an important way of communication for everyone of us, particularly the Filipinos. It is widely used in communicating with our pals and relatives. This is clearly the easiest and cheapest means of communication. But as we let this method interfere with our world, we also let it mangle the English language. Children, teenagers and even adults let this change happen. We, technology users, contribute in our own little ways.

Since texting was popularized, a sudden change occurred. A sudden change which let texting make its own kind of grammar, affecting the knowledge of humans about the English language. There are words shortened, words with numbers and words with changed spellings. I am sure enough that most of us accidentally type shortened words in formal writings because we are used in using those words in texting. I, myself, agrees that texting affected my knowledge about the english language.

Before, I used to be a 'jejemon'. It feels so bad to remember that, but I was unfortunately one of them back then. A jejemon is a person who types words differently with excess letters and numbers. It greatly affected my knowledge especially during making essays and sentences in school before. Hopefully, I was able to quit in being a jejemon, to quit using a changed grammar in texting.

I realized that texting might help in destroying my knowledge and learnings about the English language, but it also depends on the person if he/she will let the grammar of texting overcome his/her knowledge in english language. Luckily, I was able to make a change. I use more proper words in texting than before. Texting obviously paved way for English language to be ruined, but it's always our choice whether we will go on with the change or remain the same for good.

Worthy Kick Back

Students, for sure, get excited when it comes to semestral break or sembreak. It is a one week or more vacation from school which means that students are able to have fun. Though it is not as long as summer break, students still love it because sembreak is a time to relax, enjoy and recover the backlogs in sleeping. They can sleep very late and wake up late in the morning. They can watch television while not thinking about school works and be online until morning without worrying about waking up early to go to school. Sembreak is surely a wonderful time for students to kick back.

As a student, I definitely love sembreak because I am free from school works, project, eye bags and stress. We should enjoy sembreak, but we should also make it worthy enough to spend. For me, my sembreak was worthy because I was able to have fun and do my school works at time. I spent my sembreak in Makati with my family, so we were able to spend time with each other. Of all the people I had fun with, my dad was the best. The two of us played badminton, watched movies, ate our favorite foods and talked. He surely made my sembreak worthy enough. My brother also made my sembreak complete. We had so many bonding moments, especially in the halloween party and at home. I'm gonna miss him so much now that sembreak's over. My parents assured us that they'll make our sembreak boredom-free. They did not fail us and did a great job for us. Even though they have work everyday, we still go out of our house and stroll at malls. I can see their effort to please us which made each day of my sembreak even more worthy. To repay them and to assure that I won't be cramming so much before classes, I did my school works as early as I can so that I can spend all of my time with them.

This year's sembreak was one of the most worthy sembreaks. Not only because it's loner than last year's, but because I enjoyed most of my time with my family and because I did my homeworks on time . Everything's almost perfect, but I wasn't able to hang out with my classmates. Still, I could say that this one week vacation is a worthy kick back with my beloved family.