3rd meeting

Challenge yourself

After this session, for two days in school, you are going to practice/implement/actualize your top two values. You have the options to practice one or both values in a day. On your journal, write your reflections (for day one and day two) separately using the outline below. Hope you will enjoy and learn meaningfully from this challenge.

** FAITH AND FAMILY

Outline

- the date/time of experience

**September 18 and 19, 2009
**7:00 am(Sept. 18)-09:00pm(Sept.19)

- the values you have practiced

**My personal values FAITH and FAMILY

- the story/experience

**When I read about these journal, I apply it and I do it. First faith, on the past few days, I didn't have time to pray to God, I mean, every night before I sleep I always pray to Him but unfortunately, this past few days I've became lazy to do it then I realized my mistake, I must not forget Him because His the one who gave life to me, His our ruler, His our protector, so up to now, every night I always pray to Him before I sleep, I always thank Him and I always say sorry for all of my sin. Then my family, I realized that we don't have time for each other because we are all busy in work, in studies, etc. So that Friday night (Sept. 18) after I went to school to enroll, we have the time to bond, we actually go to a resort to swim and have fun and also to celebrate my brother's birthday, and then that time, I realized that even all of us are busy, we must have time with each other and have time to relax and have fun.

(details: people, location, event, situations, ways the values have been practiced and the reactions of the involved people)

- your feelings during the experience

**For me it's good, and it's the right thing to do and I'm so happy that I can do it the same as I does it before, I mean because of these journal, I tried to understand and realized my mistakes. And I'm so thankful because it helps me a lot.

- the learning from your experience

**Never forget your personal values and besides it must be your priority. Being so lazy is not helpful and not good, very much not. Try to do your best in doing things and do not forget God and also your family who really loves you.

1st meeting

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1. In the first few days you've spent in MCL, how would you compare your high school life to what you envisioned college life to be?

Answer:

• In my first few days I've spent in MCL I would compare my high school life to what I envisioned college life to be as really different. Because during my high school days I know all my classmates and that we are not that close but we are all friends. We all know our attitudes and that we don't need to cope up with each other and that I'm still dependent with my mom, it's just, I know that someday I need to be independent, but during high school, I don't need to be that. But now that I'm in college, everything is different, everything is changed, I need to cope up with new friends and I need to understand their attitude and I need to learn how to be independent.
  

2. What is the importance of Values Education?

Answer:

• Values Education is important in our daily lives.
• In it we know how to respect others,
• how to be nice and kind,
• to have faith in God,
• to obey our parents and others who is older than us,
• to think what's right and wrong,
• to have our own mind in doing good decisions,
• to love others even if they are our enemies,
• to try to forgive and forget,
• to do everything what we think is good and right,
• and many others.

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2nd meeting

PERSONAL VALUES CHECK LIST (ASSIGNMENT)

10 VALUES

1. Faith
   
2. Family
3. Friendship
4. Community
5. Unity
   
6. Cleanliness; orderliness
7. Knowledge
   
8. Discipline
9. Honesty
10. Trust

4th meeting

Self Evaluation

Do this in your journal.

1. Looking back at the list of your positive characteristics and qualities, what do you feel and realize about it?

Answer:
*I realized that in my heart, I know what I listed there in the paper is true, but at the same time I felt doubt of what I wrote about myself because I don't know if the people around me also think the same way as I do. Though, I know that I must know myself first than to listen to what the other thinks about me. And besides, they must respect me because I respected them though I don't really know them.

2. The Golden Rule says “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”
a. Given the following situations, how would you like to be treated by your teachers and schoolmates:

- when you have given wrong answers to the questions during recitation,

* They must respect me, anyway there is no perfect in these world, everybody commits mistakes, and trust me, I will do the same thing to them if ever it happens to them.

- when you are expressing your opinion during class or group discussion;

* I want them to listen to what I'm saying because it's a group discussion and that I'm saying my own opinion and if it's their turn to express their own opinion in our group discussion, probably I would listen to them.

- when you are giving suggestions during group work or presentation;

* I want them to respect suggestions, I mean I'm giving it for the sake of our group presentation. We cannot say, maybe it can help us in making our group presentation beautiful, I don't need them all to understand it very much. I just want them to think of it as well as respect it.

- when you commit mistake;

* As I've said earlier nobody is perfect, we all know that, we'll if I commit mistake/s, I'm sorry, I'm just a human and I'm not perfect and I need them to understand it, I don't need them to understand why do I do this mistake, why do I do that mistake, I just need them to understand that like them, I am just created by our God, I don't created myself and like them I commit mistakes, that's what I want them to understand and they can hope that I will understand them if they commit mistake/s.

- when you don’t like doing what they ask you to do and

* I just want them to realize that I have my own mind, my own likes and dislikes and that like them, I also have feelings, I can be hurt, I can be neglected, but if they and I know that it's the right thing for me to do and that it's for the sake of my own happiness, why not, I mean I can give it a try but I just want them to realize that nobody wants to be hold by someone, to be dictated by someone, we have our own mind to think what is the best for us and I'm sure, they also don't want somebody to control them.

- when they want to give you their comments or suggestions?

* Well, I will respect their comments and suggestions, anyway they've given a chance to give my own opinions, so as what they did, I will listen to them and I will try to understand them but I just want their comments and suggestions not so bad, I mean try respect me even just a little bit.

b. Considering the given ideas on how to treat others with respect, what can you commit to yourself in terms dealing with the MCL community: teachers, students, employees, security, maintenance/janitors and canteen personnel?

* Oh, they can hope that I would respect them. I won't and never will disrespect them, because aside from being (some of them) older than me is that they are also a person like me. They need and deserve to be respect and obey (in some instances) by others, and that's what I would do, and besides I know they are respecting me too, so I would do the same thing to them. And the golden rule is always on my mind "Do not do unto others as you won't others do unto you".