It was dawn in March 10, 1999 when a mother gave birth to her first child. It was a baby girl. Everyone was very excited to see the baby. But when the baby is already outside of her mother she wasn't crying for a while. The family and relatives that were there were very nervous at that very moment because maybe the child was dead. Lucy, after a minute the baby girl was crying. The tense that they felt before was gone after they heard the baby was crying. Because of what happened the parents really took good care of their first baby.
That baby girl is me. My name Ma (Maria) was came from the mid-wife of mother and Carmella was derived from my grandmother's name Carmelita. When I was still inside the tummy of my mother she used to listen to the musics because she believes that it can make the child intelligent. They also used to talk to me.
I was my parents' first child. Actually, I was supposed to be their second child but they lost the first one. We lived in my grandfather's house with our other relatives. I'm the baby in our family since most of my cousins are older than me. They said that I'm a spoiled brat then. They always gave me everything that I wanted. I reached the age of two but still I don't have any tooth yet. My parents tried everything for me to have at least a tooth. They put margarines on my gums, change my milk and everything but it didn't worked out. When I'm already two years old, that's the time my teeth came up.
My little brother Marc Clarence was born when I was two years old. There are some changes that happened. I'm not the only focused or priority in our family but also my little brother. I'm only two years older than him so grew up together with him and with my cousins.
My childhood life is not that memorable. Maybe because I'm antisocial when I was a kid. I didn't like to go outside I just wants to stay in our house.I also didn't wants to play with other kids instead I only wants to play with my cousins inside our house. When I was a kid, I loved going to school and read some fictional books. I remember when my grandfather bought me a bicycle as his gift. I was so happy because I can ride on a bicycle. When me and my little brother were still a kid, our father used to buy us a doughnuts everyday he went home after his work. Because of that, doughnuts became our favourite food. I didn't play that much when I was a kid but changes happened when I came to school.
Since I started studying, the first things that comes to my mind is that I didn't want to get a failing grade. My most unforgettable experienced is when I was a prep. My adviser told us to coloured our textbook. That day, I really wanted to went home early, so what did was finished my work as fast as I could. I coloured one page yellow, the other page was green and the other one was yellow. When my adviser looked at my work she got mad and scolded me. She told me that I need to repeat it all. I was so scared that time. After what happened, I was absent for three days and I didn't want to went to school anymore. My mother talked to my adviser and told her the problem. Then my adviser approached me and told me that her only intention was for me to do the right thing. After that we're fine.
When I was in grade one I was in section two. I met my new classmates because most of my classmates in prep are in section one. I made to be on the top one in our class so when I became grade two I was in section one. I became top four when I was in grdae two. Top three when I was grade three, top two when I was grade four, and top four when I was grade five and six. Since grade one I always one of those honor students.
For me, grade six was the happiest when I was in elementary. The lesson and school works are harder. When I was in grade six we conduct a show in MSEP. We portray what is happening in showtime while the other group portrays Eat Bulaga. As we sang our graduation song in our graduation we are all crying because we will really miss each other. What will happen next when I'm already a high school student?
They said that high school life is the happiest moment in your life. When you reach in high school, there are lot of things that you can experience. I chose Sta. Elena High School because I believe that they have a good quality of teaching. I enrolled in Engineering Science Education Program or ESEP. When I went to high school I had a mix emotions, nervous but somehow happy. Nervous because I don't know the feeling of being a high school student. Happy because another journey in my life will happen.
When I was in first year, I realized one thing. Being a high school student is really different from elementary days. Our adviser in first year was Mrs. Carmelita Muldong. She is strict but she is a good teacher. At first I thought that I can't do it. When I was in first year, I cried when I don't understand the lesson or I can't do my assignments. I'm pressured of being an ESEP student. It's hard to adjust because things happened quickly. But time passed by, and I manage to handle things. New friends, new classmates, new adviser its like I'm again a beginner. But I'm not that close with my classmates when I was in first year.
When I reached my second year, I've already adjust. We already comfortable working with each other. We encountered some problem but we tried to fix it. I remember it was intrams when we bought a pizza and we have our picnic. it was awesome. There is also a time that she got mad at us because we did something wrong. She just teach us but she is not approaching us. But we did everything to forgive us and it worked out. We show to her that we are sincere so she accepted our apology.
Our class won a lot of contests that year. The most unforgettable one is the dramatic reading. Our class became united and did our best to win in that contest. We practiced a lot because we want to prove something. When the day came, we are all nervous but when Mrs. Odones announced that we are the champion all our hardworks woth it. That's one of our achievements. We are very united. We always have our open forum because for us it is the best way to express our feelings with each other. We are very united that we all agree on what we are going to do. For me, second year is the happiest moment but also the mournful moment. It's the time that other will be expelled in ESEP class transferred in the regular class. Despite of that, we still communicating each other and things happened the same way.
Now I'm already third year. ESEP A and ESEP B are now combined in one section as ESEP III. I survived in ESEP class. Our new adviser is Mrs. Rosalina Alonzo a chemistry teacher. Another journey and problems to face. This time, I think I can already hadle things. One more year to come and I will be graduating. I can do it!