The Fellowship

Since I was part of the LCBA, we were tasked to attend the Christmas fellowship with partner schools and partner barangays of our school. We were in-charge of the games and the giving-out of prizes. It was really fun to share what we have and make other people happy. The over-all activity was fun since there were games and talent portion. I saw smiles on their faces when they received gifts from us. And so I was touched because they appreciated our efforts.

Break.!

After taking the exams yesterday, we had our Christmas party. Yey! We were all excited to know who our SP's were. Thrilling, right? My mother in our CAE play, was the one who had an SP on me. And I don't even know something about it. And so I was really shocked at the same time surprised. Our Christmas party was just short because our teachers will stiil attend the Fellowship. But even though it was short, I really enjoyed it. It was fun to be with my classmates and even more fun to receive gifts.

Relieved...

Yes! We are all done! Done of what? Well, done in taking our tests. It was a relief for me because imagine, I was having a hard time preparing for these things which even made me tired. And so thank God, It's all over!

Torture!

The week after a boring week, we had a week herein we will be having tests. What? Isn't this a torture? It truly is! we have no choice but rather take it. So, I was busy studying to prepare myself. Besides our mastery tests and exams, we also need to pass our projects. And so I kept on complaining and even said, "This is really torturing me!"

A Boring Week

Right after the play, we returned to our normal routine in school.It was totally a boring week because all the time we were sitting in our chairs and listen to the teacher's discussion. Oh, life. I even missed the days when we used to practice for our play presentations. But then what can I do? This is really what life is all about. That week, we were preparing for next week's mastery tests and eventually our exams. That was really boring. But then this is for our own good. Who would benefit from these things but only us.

Learnings

With this month's activity, I have learned a lot of things. The play itself didn't only taught us to be good actresses but also taught us values. We practiced the value of simplicity when we used what we had to help in our play. The value of trust was even practiced when we relied our presentation to our own selves and encouraged ourselves to do our best because we all know that we can do it. There's still a lot more of values that we had manifested during this momentous activity.I hope next year, we would still practice these things and hopefully we would learn more values.

The Invention f Velcro

One lovely summer day in 1948, a Swiss amateur-mountaineer and inventor decided to take his dog for a nature hike. The man and his faithful companion both returned home covered with burrs, the plant seed-sacs that cling to animal fur in order to travel to fertile new planting grounds. The man neglected his matted dog, and with a burning curiosity ran to his microscope and inspected one of the many burrs stuck to his pants. He saw all the small hooks that enabled the seed-bearing burr to cling so viciously to the tiny loops in the fabric of his pants. George de Mestral raised his head from the microscope and smiled thinking, "I will design a unique, two-sided fastener, one side with stiff hooks like the burrs and the other side with soft loops like the fabric of my pants. I will call my invention 'velcro' a combination of the word velour and crochet. It will rival the zipper in its ability to fasten."

Mestral's idea met with resistance and even laughter, but the inventor 'stuck' by his invention. Together with a weaver from a textile plant in France, Mestal perfected his hook and loop fastener. By trial and error, he realized that nylon when sewn under infrared light, formed tough hooks for the burr side of the fastener. This finished the design, patented in 1955. The inventor formed Velcro Industries to manufacture his invention. Mestral was selling over sixty million yards of Velcro per year. Today it is a multi-million dollar industry.

Not bad for an invention based on Mother Nature.

Source: About.com