Take A Chance..

Yesterday, during our Math class, we had an activity. In that particular activity, we had to form groups composed of three members each group. The group that I belonged to composed of Leejee moody Zamora, Maria Cielo Sanchez, and me. The members of our group are not that good at Math and so it we had a hard time choosing who will play for each round. The rounds are the easy round, medium round, and difficult round. So what we did was we used our grades in math for the Third Grading Period as basis for choosing who gets the easy round, medium round and difficult round. Leejee's grade was 76, mine was also 76 and Cielo's grade was 77. We chose Leejee as the one to play the easy round. I was to play for the medium round and Cielo was for the difficult round. She didn't want to play in the difficult round because she was afraid that she might not get the answer correctly. During easy round, Leejee got a mistake. In the medium round, I got it correctly. In the difficult round, Cielo got so nervous. She was like this because if she does not get the answer right, our group will only get five points for the activity because each round is worth five points. Because she was so nervous, she was not able to answer and our group did not have any points earned for that particular round. At the end of the activity, our group got only 5 points. After the game ended, Cielo cried. She told us that the reason why she cried is because she knew the answer but did not say it because she as afraid that she might get mistaken. She really blamed herself for the loss of our group and regretted for not having said anything.
From this experience, I have learned that we should always take chances in everything we do. We should always strike while the iron is hot. It's not everyday that we get chances like these. My English teacher in grade six once told me a story. When she was still a student, she was a very shy girl. Whenever her teacher asks a question to the class, she won't raise her hands to answer. Instead, she whispers the answer to her seat mate. At the end, her seat mate gets all the credit for her answer.
As a student of UP high, I am so privileged to study in this University. Of all the people who took the entrance exam in UP, only seventy of them passed and got a chance to study here. I am one of them. My brother told me that studying in UP is a life that is worth taking chances. You can not survive in UP if you do not go and take a chance to do amazing things…