# 7 My Grandfather, My Hero

                      The day I was born was a great joy and happiness to my parents and grandparents because I am the first offspring of their generation yet there was full of anxiety and weariness in their faces, when they saw my left crab-footed leg. My grandfather, Aurelio V. Cahoy Sr., consulted this hazardous problem to an orthopedic specialist, Dr. Nestor Sison, who happened to be one of the consulting medical staff in the national athletic delegation of Region X. My grandfather was also the regional training director of the said delegation. 
                       When my grandfather arrived from the Palarong Pambansa, last March 1994, he immediately accompanied our family with my grandmother to Maria Reyna Hospital where the clinic of Dr. Sison  is located. I was four weeks old at that time, when I met the friendly face of my physician. although I was so innocent with delicate body, I felt the painfulness of my broken bone when it was stretched forcibly by the doctor. I was terribly crying for helped when he cemented my broken crab foot and wrapped it with a plaster cast.
                       He ordered an iron shoes for me to be used until my casted foot  will returned to its normal position  when my grandparents accompanied me for the check-up, I was crying hard every time I saw the face of Dr. Sison. I felt the phobia of painfulness I suffered much. 
                       Every time I see the shoes made of iron, that was preserved by my mother, I could still remember the uncomfortable heavy weight, the uneasiness of wearing it.
                       To this time, I can't forget the heroic deeds of my grandpa, Aurelio V. Cahoy Sr., who was so concern of my future. With his great courage and exceptional noble quality of being my grandpa, I am what I am now. If not of his untiring support maybe today, I'll be a desperate person who could not walk normally. Thank you very much Tatay. If not of your assertive effort, I'll be walking with difficulty. You are a hero for me and you will be always in my heart.         

# 6 Parents Really Knows Best

                    As Honey Dawn Salvanera shared her unforgettable experienced she had, I was so shocked of what she shared at me. It was a terrible experienced happened after their High School graduation. She was being poisoned of an unknown person. According to her, before the poisoning happened, her mother did not allow her to go outing with her friends but she insisted to go. So she go with her friends and her mother just cried because it is the first time that she did not obeyed. When Honey got home, her parents was so shocked because there something happened to her, she was being poisoned.
                   Because of what happened to Honey, I realized that  parents really knows best. There are instances in my life that I also didn't obeyed my parents because for me I was right but in the end, my parents are right and not me. They just want us to be safe and away from harm that might hurt us. We must obey our parents because our parents really knows best.
                 

# 5 Success Swings With the Breath of Heaven

                  Each one of us has our own unforgettable experiences that help us to become a better person and gives us more knowledge and strength to face squarely the inequities and tribulations in life. Beautiful experiences we had tested will also make us a person of a wholesome personality.

                  Talking about experiences, I do have some unforgettable lessons I learned from it. In fact I've got the best one and that was when we climbed a mountain and did a tree planting. That was during my high school days, when our school conducted a Reach-Out Program at Mt. Balatukan on the top of the mountain of Gingoog City. It was such a memorable experienced reaching the peak of Mt. Balatukan. Together with my classmates and with the group of college students, we don't mind the hardship and tiresome hiking, loading in our back the pack of foods, water, medicines cameras, and most especially the seedlings of trees that we were going to plant. We enjoyed very much seeing the panoramic view and rich natural beauty of the trail that we passes-by. The coolness of the forest , the musical sound of the of the clear and bluish water of the rivers and brooks, the singing of the birds up in the tall tress that covered the skies, the hanging wild orchids and greenish ferns captured our sight and ease the pains and tiredness we felt. reaching these place Mt. Balatukan was such a splendor and the tress we had planted with our soiled hands was the witnessed of our unforgettable experienced. May the good people protect them from harm by not cutting what we had planted  for protection of  human lives and destruction of lives. 

                    I therefore say that experiences say that experiences with sacrifices and firm determination will make a successful being.