St. Monica '09-'10

In our Filipino subject last SY 2007-2008, our class was divided into two and picked their respective leaders or 'directors' for the play. I`m one of the three directors that was chosen but I`m the real director. The teacher gave us time to talk about or plan what we have to do for our play. After planning, the teacher gave us 2 weeks to practice and to make the props. I assigned 3 of my groupmates to make the props. I was desponded when I saw the disfigured illustration, after that we continued to practice and at that point I realized how hard to manage 23 people who have different personalities. This challenged me, at first, I was patient. But while each day passes by, I`m getting impatient. Until my patience was gone and I became so strict about the practices. 3 days before our performance, I got mad at them and started shouting at them because I did and gave my best already but it`s like my groupmates didn`t see it. I got mad at them, they got mad at me and started gossiping me. I didn`t mind what they said at first, but when the time came that I can`t take it anymore, I talked to them and explained the whole thing, I apologized but they didn`t accept me. After performing, our Filipino teacher chose 1 group to perform in the whole batch. Our group was surprised because we got the highest score. By that time, my groupmates were enlightened and they told me that I`m the reason why their grades went up. In my case, I`m very happy after that because I/we saw the effect of everything.

What I did in solving this problem was to explain why I said such things at them and I apologized.

I learned that "There are no mistakes in life, only lessons."

45 Lei Raiza A. Zervoulakos