"What I expected was..."

Dear Diary,

I am very excited for our Science and Technology week activity this February , 2007. This would be very great! As I have read our school bulletin board, the freshmen has lots of contests to join. Like the slogan, essay writing, and the poster making contest. And of these three, I choose the essay writing contest. Because of this, I made a piece just this afternoon. Our theme was, “Improving Filipino Lives through Science and Technology”’. Too bad I was not chosen by our Science teacher. It was my classmate, Chanel. Well, she deserves to be the contestant for this category. She’s very intelligent and affluent in English. Well I could still share to her my ideas for her essay. Or maybe I don’t need to. I really or all the students of UP High School, especially I-Villamor and our class adviser

much appreciated her goodness in writing in English form when a column of her, was published in The Freeman Newspaper on the June issue. It went out on Sunday. Then, the next morning, a lot of people approached her commenting about the column. They say it was very nice. When I got a copy of mine, I kept it at house. Even my mother and father who have read it praised her work. I really expected a lot for myself here in this school. Even for this contest I was expecting that our teacher will let us write our own piece. Then, she would let us read them one by one in front of our class. After reading them she would then choose some of us who has the best essay and of course I was one of them. Then my classmates would vote to whom does deserve to be the representative of the freshmen. They would then choose me. Wow! How nice could that be! But my expectations were wrong! Sometimes people need not to expect on things. They need to wait for the opportunity to come to their own ways. Too many expectations could lead you to trouble. And that is what I am doing today. I just want to be recognized because of my talent. I want to prove people that I could do lots of things in my life. And I deserve to stay in this school. Is it just too bad if you would just wish for something you want to achieve in your life? Well I have already received that don’t fit in the position. Maybe there are some more activities that await me in the future, that would surely fit me and my talent. After all, my classmates did not have the information that I know how to do one. Since I was in the elementary years, (somewhere in grade 5 and 6) when we were told to make some essays, my teacher then would praise my work. That is why I was expecting a lot for this activity. Well I can’t blame anyone. But, if only they get to know me very well. Well diary, maybe this would just be all! If you want to know my piece, I’ll just publish it on my blog. Okay!

Leslie ; )