By: Charlie Mae Esimos- BSBA 1E
I took my phone out of my pocket, I check the time and it is
already 08:00 AM. I gathered all my things such as notebooks, calculator,
highlighter, ball pens and pad paper. I needed to go to Auntie Mira's household
before 08:30AM strikes. I knock three times before the door opens and it shows
Auntie Mira, she told me to get inside and prepare my things so that i can
start to study and join my online classes.
It is all new to me in using Google classroom, Google meet
and Zoom for attending our every day online discussion. We meet virtually by
the use of Google meet but I observed that some of my classmates are having
difficulties on joining our online discussion, and some cannot even join. My
teacher discusses the topic and ask questions afterwards, it is quite
interesting in my part because when I was a Senior High School Student we only
use modular approach. My teacher added that she uploaded a long quiz and two
activities on Google classroom before she ended the class. I check the Google
classroom and indeed there's a new upload quiz in Google form and the link will
be closed after 1 hour so I started to answer it correctly and carefully. It
took me 55 minutes to finish the long quiz and I went to check the two
activities that also uploaded there. I started to answer the activity that the
deadline is near to come, I type my answer in Google docs and for some
references I visit Google to get some ideas to support my answers, after I
finished the activity 1. I open Google classroom and turn in my work.
At last, I finished I mean not totally because I will just
do the other activity tomorrow as I needed to return the cell phone to my
Auntie Mira, she only let me use her phone whenever I have an online classes. I
stood up and started to clean her house for the compensation of letting me use
her phone and for buying my school supplies. When I open the back door I bumped
into someone who's wearing an almost ragged clothes and holding a pail of water
in both of her hands. As I look up it was Sarah my twin. Just like me she is
also a first year college student taking up Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
I smile to her knowing how she work hard
as a full-time cleaner in Auntie Mira's house just to earn money to buy our
foods and pay the electric bills. She patted my shoulder and said "Study
hard and make us proud, I chose to stop my study in order for you to continue.
So study harder twin."
