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 Way back when I am in my 6 th grade, I always loved going to school as
I get to meet my friends and learned from our teachers. Everyone has an
unforgettable moment and I have one in my elementary school. My
unforgettable moment was when I was late in class.

That day started as usual I woke up to get ready and went to school. At
school I met my friends and gathered to go at the canteen. After that everyone
went back to our classroom. I went back to class late as usual and before I get in,
my classmates started teasing me for being late and our teacher just stared at me
and at that moment I quickly went in to sit and I get annoyed on my classmates
as they are making fun of me. I get mad but I did not pick a fight with them I
just sit and listened to our teacher. That incident did not happen once but I got
bullied multiple times for being late, and I got a reason for that. The first time
that I was late was that when I got home because I don’t want to poop at school
and when you’re young, you will be embarrassed to say that reason so I just kept
quiet.

Eventually little by little I had managed to recover from that situation.

It has been so long since the last time Ive seen you and I want to reach out to you so much. I am happy to
write a letter to let you know that we are having a vacation after graduation. Now that I am free from school, I will
be able to spend time with you.

We will go for outdoor activities and we are all going be happy for the upcoming vacation. It will benefit
all of us especially me because I miss you so much for how long I have not seen you and all my cousins that I have
not seen, I could not wait that our days in school would be ended.

I hope to see you soon be safe and always take your medicine Lola.

Your grandchild,

Noviejoy
 My name is Noviejoy G. Sakiw, I am currently studying in Ili National High school, located at Ili, Conner,
Apayao and I am currently a Grade-12 student. I was born on November 5 , 2005 at Dr. Juan Hospital. My parents
are Luz Sakiw and Tony Sakiw. I am the youngest child and I have 2 siblings who are Tina-Rose Sakiw and
Geniveve Sakiw.

During my elementary days, I usually spend my free time hanging out with my friends. I knew most of my
friends in primary school and I feel happy when I am with them. In 2017, I graduated from elementary and became a
high school freshman in Ili National High School. It was great that I have found some friends that same year. It was
quite funny because my friends from elementary are still my friends. In 2020, I graduated from high school and I
enrolled senior high school in that same year.

I am an introvert person I have low social interaction with people that surrounded me either I have 1 or 2
friends only. I am an adventurous person I like riding motorcycle long or short destination even its tiring to drive, I
love going to beaches. I am a serious type of friend and sometimes become jolly depends on my mood. I am a
talkative and at the same time a good listener. I love taking picture of different experiences. I have fear of heights,
pattern of holes and the characters of the movie that is fictional like cartoons, animated and especially the characters
in the Alice the wonderland that cause anxiety to me because of that movie.

My main goal for now is to graduate and work abroad. I want to become successful in my life as well as in
my career. I have been very motivated to create the best possible future for myself and I will dedicate my life to
study hard for my future and to my family and especially to
 Thinking about my childhood makes me feel that I miss half of my life. Half of my childhood life was
spent at school and some of my childhood memories sucks. I was embarrassed when I remember my past because I
am a cry baby.

I started studying when I was five. My teachers are the ones who served as my nanny, since my parents
drop me off to school, my teacher told my parents that I always throw tantrums, cry and fall asleep in school. I
remembered that when I'm study in grade 2, I was` crying because I don’t want to go to school.

As I remember that was true that I'm a cry baby, now that I'm a teenager I feel like a person that always cry
was for weak people and some say they are just over react. Childhood memories are the first memory that a person
can remember but that’s not case in me I always forgot my childhood memories but there are few vivid memories
that I can still remember.
 Acknowledgement
My sincerely effort have made me to accomplish the task of completing this project. I have taken effort in
this project. However, it would not been possible without the help of many individuals.

I would like to express my special thanks of my gratitude to my teacher mam Tetchie B. Baluyan as well as
my friends who gave me the opportunity to this wonderful project. When I started this project the one that motivated
me and need of appreciation it was my teacher and my friends

Secondly, I would also like to thank my parents for providing all of my needs in school, my special thanks
to my sister for letting me borrowed her laptop and she helped me in how to properly create and design to my
project.

Lastly, I would like to thank all of my classmates who motivates me to fulfill this project on time and
always reminding me of what part I didn’t finish. This project reminded me to become more productive and stop
how I always procrastinate. Words are not sufficient to express my feelings towards to those who motivate and help
me to finished this project.
 Biography
Chloe Celeste Hosterman is also known as Dove Cameron, she was born on January 15, 1996, in
Bainbridge Island, Washington USA. Her birth name isn't actually Dove. She was born Chloe Celeste Hosterman
but decided to legally change it and she explained the heartbreaking backstory on social media, saying that Dove
was actually a nickname her dad Philip Hosterman, used to call her. Her parents Phillip Hosterman and Bonnie
Wallace. She has an older sister Claire Hosterman.

She recalled that she had the craziest childhood. She shared that she suffered with horrible bullying in
middle school because she was a weird kid. She said that she was bullied because of how she dressed up like one
thing for a month and she dress up as Johnny Depp, she was later on discover that her problem was herself, she dealt
with it by going really hard into being herself and as a result she was now being a singular self and unabashedly and
people celebrated her that in her adulthood.

She was in past relationship with Ryan McCartan they were together for four years. While they were
together, the two played on screen couple Maddie and Diggie on Liv and Maddie they later on called it quits in
October 2016 and after their break up, as Dove later wrote via Instagram that her ex-boyfriend was terrible. Despite
Dove messy first relationship, she soon moved on and found love again with her costar Thomas Doherty. But sadly,
their romance didn’t last too much longer, as Dove announced their split.

Although Dove’s public relationships have been known to be primarily with men, the singer is, in fact,
queer. She spoke to Gay Times about the time that she came out and said, she hinted about her sexuality for years
while being afraid to spell it out for everybody. She started her career as an actress. She was cast in 2012 in a Disney
Channel comedy series called “Bits and Pieces.” The show was later renamed Liv and Maddie, and she played the
dual lead role of Liv and Maddie. Cameron received multiple award nominations for her performance in these roles
and finally won the Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance, she was well known for that role. Dove
Cameron, 27, is an actress and singer best known for her hit song “Boyfriend”, which she released in 2022. And
despite the fact that she famously sings about how she can be a “better boyfriend. She said that she was super  queer.
This is something she want to represent through her music because it’s who she is. Dove’s relationship status now
appears to be single, as she is focused on her music career.

She was my idol at my young age when I watched one of her series of movie. She was a bad ass villain at
that time. She is evil I just loved her of how cool she is. She is portraying what I wanted when I was a child and
because of that my attitude change I became a cold blooded because I don’t want anyone to abuse my kindness as
like being mean is what I used to cover my own personality.
 5 entries from my diary
February 16,2023 Thursday

I woke up around 6am in the morning, I was a bit late so I get up to get ready to school. I quickly
ride my motorcycle then it would not start. After that I didn’t go to so school. I just got a little mad because of
what happen. 10am in the morning, I got a little hope so I try again then its already okay but I am afraid to
go to school because it may not start. I go at the repair shop 10:20 am to 11:05 am that they finish, so at that
time I got back home I go to school around 2pm because we don’t have class in first period. Sir Herman gave
us an activity to give ideas of our future courses around 2:55pm. At night I started to make my diary and my
diary is not as complete because I am busy in other things so I forget to put it on my notes.

February 18 2023 Saturday

A gloomy morning and a boring day for me, I am lazy so I don’t do my homework. All I do today is
watching Chinese drama from 9am to 1pm, after I finished watching I got up to get ready for my agenda to
go to our church for an instrument practice. 4pm in the afternoon I arrive already, there's a rule that no
cellphone is allowed while observing the musicians that’s what I remember because I forget what are my
activities for the whole day because I overuse my phone.

February 19 2023 Sunday

Today I forget to put every activity that I do in my notes, so all I remembered was walking up
around 6 am in the morning. Its Sunday so I got up and move fast as I can even its freezing cold and I arrive
at our church around 7:50 am our pastor sermon was 1 john 4:9. In the afternoon till night I just use my
phone watching videos on Facebook. Getting unready to go to bed and go to sleep around 10pm.

February 21 2023 Tuesday

Today is cloudy and because of the cold I couldn’t get up early.6am I get my cellphone as I woke up
then I consume minutes of using cellphone then now I am late again because of my laziness. 12 pm lunch
break I go to my friend house.

At night there's no usual activity, I cannot remember what happen because I don’t use my phone
often. When I don’t use my phone that’s the time, I will totally don’t remember of what my day was.

March 21 2023 Tuesday

Around 8am my cellphone was dead battery all through the day. My morning at school was boring
because I cannot use my phone so I did was to tease my seatmate make gossips and borrow cellphone from
my friend. Around 5pm after our class ended, we eat barbecue and after I got home, I charged my phone
immediately, I washed our clothes around 6pm in the evening and I finished almost 8pm at night and get
some rest and shower after 10 minutes resting.
 Motovlog is about travelling riding a motorcycle and reaching destinations like beaches, caves, rivers and
also tasting the different exotic foods and local foods worth to visit with, it looks so cool it became one of my
dreams I desperately want to fulfill. And finally at the age of sixteen one of the steps to fulfill it finally came as my
sister finally agreed to teach me the basics of driving a motorcycle. Learning to drive was difficult for me as I had
never tried driving. Along with it the frustrations I experienced learning to drive was unable to balance to balance
the motorcycle, controlling the throttle, using the breaks properly and most difficult one was learning how to u turn
the motorcycle. I almost gave up on learning how to drive because of difficulties I have experienced but I think of
my dreams and afraid of losing it because of cowardliness. Thankfully my sister was patience enough to teach me
and encourage me to continue learning as it was just my first time to ride a motorcycle and say’s it was not easy and
normal not to be able driving in a day. And finally, after a few days I finally learned how to drive motorcycle and
it’s a great feeling to achieve one of the steps to fulfill my dream.

There was this one time I had a mistake and plan to never tell my sister about. It was about how silly I am
to fall out of balanced because I forgot to put down the side stand of the motorcycle causing it to fall along with me,
gladly I was not injured but sadly the accident caused the parts of the motorcycle scratches and I’m so terrified to
tell my sister about it knowing my sister loves her motorcycle so much she’s willing to buy parts of motorcycle to
make it look good.

The day I fell off made me realize that I should really be careful and accept my mistakes because mistakes
lead you to learn and prompt you to became successful and no one is perfect as to failures or mistakes as it happens
to everyone but committing mistakes over and over again with the same issue is not a mistake anymore it’s already a
choice of being negligent.
 Food article

Pinikpikan is one of the most popular foods that apayao has, every people eat it with rice because of
deliciousness. A warm hearty stew chicken famous in Cordillera. Pinikpikan is a dish originating from Cordillera in
Northern Luzon. Pinikpikan came from the word pik pik which means to beat. The traditional way of making this is
killing a live chicken by beating it to death (pik pik) and thrown into an open fire to burn the feathers, and cleaning
it afterwards. Cooking Pinikpikan is similar to cooking a tinola.

I encourage you to explore the rich culinary cuisine if you travel in the Cordillera region.

INGREDIENTS

1 whole free-range chicken or native chicken

200 g speck, etag or any fatty cured smoked pork

1 big bunch bok choy or shanghai

2 chayote, sliced

2 stalks celery, sliced

1 inch piece ginger, thinly sliced

2 red onions, chopped

4 cloves garlic, smashed

1/2 cup tapuy or any rice wine water, as needed oil

Instructions

1. Prepare a hooded charcoal grill, light up your charcoal on one side and not the whole grilling area.

2. Cut your chicken in half, season it with salt. Place chicken, skin side up on the hooded grill on the side
without the heat, cover the grill then let it absorb the smoke for 15 minutes. Open the hood, bring back your
charcoal to amber once it is very hot grill chicken on both sides until it is charred. Remove chicken from
the grill then set it aside.

3. Once chicken has cooled down, chop chicken into pieces.

4. Add chicken pieces, rice wine and etag, then pour enough water to cover the chicken. Bring to a boil then
simmer in medium low heat for 30 minutes or until chicken meat is nearly tender.

5. Add the chayote then simmer for 8 more minutes.

6. Add the bok choy or shanghai then simmer for 2 more minutes.

7. Season with salt then serve

Purag falls is one of the famous tourist destinations on the City of Conner, it is known for it’s wonderful
falls that will make you amaze when you see it. Purag falls is located at Sitio Liwan. There are 30minute-1hour
going to Purag falls by walking but when riding a vehicle are 5-15 minute. You can see a different view of the
environment going to Purag falls such as beautiful mountains and there is underwater cave.

Visiting a waterfall especially on a summer heat will ease the hot, one of ways to spend a day is to go for
outing. Since childhood, traveling has always been happened to me once a year. In the summer of 2021, my cousins
planned to take us to swim in Purag falls, we got to Purag falls at its peak season there were so many people at that
place, the time that we went there it was April. The place was not far from our house. We went out around 8 am the
time that we got there was 7:20, because it was morning there were not as many people there. When we went there it
was very relaxing, it was morning the cold breeze you can feel. I was lucky because my cousin plan that we go for
swimming.

If you want to travel here in Conner, I really recommend this place as it was very relaxing, peaceful and
spectacular place it was great for adventurous people. This place was the most memorable experience in my life that
I went for a quick getaway.
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In this portfolio I reflect upon 10days work of my portfolio, I cannot help to feel the accomplishment of
how long I do it. My journey of making this portfolio was not been easy for making outputs and encoded it but being
a student that it was a sign of growth that was a result of my experience.

The part about working on the portfolio where I had to write my childhood memories, memoir, personal
essay was a little bit stressful because I need to share about my life. I never really thought that I would finish 10
essays so it was nice to look back and reflect. I was satisfied about of my portfolio and I feel the growth as a student
that taking class every single day.

I was able to identify an area of my writing that I was a little proud of myself and I found that I have my
strength.  I also identified an area that I still need to improve my writing skills.  I learned a lot about myself I also
realized that all of my classes I had taken really directed me to my future goal. This overall experience was very
stressful but it was worth it.