Kiella Brizel

"A Person's a Person, No Matter How Small"      As the well-known Jose Rizal statement says, "Ang Kabataan ang Pag-asa ng Bayan" (The Youth is the Hope of the Town). May anyone remember that this quote will not be lively as it is if children is not healthy, nourished, and most importantly, sheltered. Ensuring the right for all made people, almost everybody live with freedom and peace. Children, a single word, yet one that deserves attention. Children are still-developing human beings, some of whom are extremely young. They have a unique moral standing simply because they are humans.        But what if the young people themselves have given up on life because they become victims of violence and abuse from both the social and institutional spheres? Is getting up still possible? This celebration for Children's Month 2023 with the theme, "Healthy, Nourished, Sheltered; Ensuring the Right to Life for All" is one of the most efficient ways to support an...

How Am I?     Spending three months  in school made me realized a lot of things as well as made me change some of my perspectives in life making me look back and reflect on the reasons for those changes. Even in this brief time, I have gained an enormous amount of learnings and discoveries. I learned that, in comparison to when I was in grade nine, I had changed significantly as a grade 10 student. During grade nine, when I got a low score from any of the activities or exams given, I overthink so much that it made distracted for a whole day in school thinking about it like my grades will depend on that certain score. Now that I am in grade ten, as much as I can, I tried to avoid the overthinking's I used to do before, instead of doing it, I always try to put in my mind that "It's already done, the only thing I can do is to be more better tomorrow", that basic thought pattern of mine helped me a lot in making my first two months in school bearable. Moreover, being apar...