EE1 - Speech

email your answer to ildgazelle_hankjaere@yahoo.com

questions: (ESSAY)

1. What is Christmas?
2. Describe its essence to you as:
a. a daughter / son to your parents
b. a best friend
c. a sister / brother to your siblings
d. a student
e. a christian believer

deadline is on December 27, 2009

Merry Christmas and a happy new year...

yesterday, today and tomorrow

I painted a rainbow but I doubt if I saved a promise
I sang but I doubt if I gave the right melody
I danced but I doubt if I made the right steps
I searched but I doubt if I found the answer
I taught a soul but i doubt if I made a difference

I write but I doubt if I am read
I express myself but I doubt if I am understood
I smile but I doubt if I am captured
I speak but I doubt if I am heard
I sow but i doubt if there will be harvest

I will keep my dream but I doubt if it will come true
I will wait but I doubt if there is something to hope for
I will fight but I doubt if it is worth the battle
I will move on but I doubt if it will be a great journey
I will survive but I doubt if it's possible without YOU!

MAELS

whew? time indeed flies so fast..i thought it was just yesterday when i responded to the call of vertical alignment in capitol university. what i am referring to is the graduate program we are supposed to finish to be vertically articulated for the College of arts and sciences, humanities and English department. after having gone through the ordeal of thesis writing, proposal and oral defense, the hassles of encoding, editing and revising, it felt like i was nauseous already with the idea that i was going back to school again for another master's degree. i enrolled in the MAELS program along with other colleagues , who, like me were also not vertically aligned. at first i found maels too tedious and taxing...later i started to enjoy the class and the professors we had...so challenging and nerve cracking...again, i experienced soreness on my back, recurring migraine, eyes strain and stress to the highest level...i realized this was no joke after all..i put my heart into my studies...well, that's what i usually do...i always give my best and sometimes, it's too frustrating to note that my best is not good enough...

now, i am about to finish the program together with my 13 other colleagues...we stayed together in one roof during the entire summer class, had fun and laughter together, shared the same apprehensions and tensions...

now, few months more and we are graduating but before the final day comes, we are about to face a judgment we truly fear...i hope that the verdict is in favor of us...more effort needed, more time to spend, more energy to burn...more more more of everything...

plain agony but i am curious will this be a worthy endeavor? one with a wholesome end? best wishes!