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In U.P. it feels good to be taught by the best teachers. But, how do you think would it look like if the students were the teachers. Sounds funny? Well it’s true, here in U.P., the students are given the once-in-a-blue-moon chance to go up the platform and teach their co-students. This happens through the K.Y.S.D (Know Your School Day) Activity. This is a 2-day activity wherein the teachers rest and the students teach. The students are personally chosen after their interview with the teachers of the subject they wish to handle. I myself applied for that sought-after job of being a Science A teacher, to no avail. During the interview with Madame Erlinda Gallo, I was really trembling but despite the nerve-wrenching nervousness, I still got the way out the mess (Was I right?), but, so much of that, I am here to tell you the feeling of being taught by a co-student. It is fun. It feels like you were just talking the normal talk between students. At the same time it is a little bit noisy, especially when there are too many student teachers like what happened in Filipino. So many applied for the spot and how lucky of them, there application forms were all approved by Madame Montaño. So many were talking at the same time (Ok, ok I admit I am one of them) with the student teachers (I think there were 7 or 8 of them). I was so excited at the same time afraid when I learned at first about this KYSD thing and all because I know that people in our classroom have really different temperaments and if one bursts out, the others will surely follow (You know what I mean), and of course I was very right when I said there would surely be arguments and conflicts, and that certain argument even reached our adviser. In our classroom, arguments always start with a joke. One person would release jokes on another person until he hurts that person without even knowing he did it.

The KYSD activity opened my eyes. I realized that even if it had been months since our first meeting, we still cannot completely adjust in our new environment, new classmates and all. Being taught by a classmate is not bad at all. It is in another way, something that tells us that everyone is given a gift by God. A gift that we should cherish until we die. Not everyone has the gift of intelligence, but he/she may have the gift of music or the gift of art. But I can assure you, everyone has a gift. Maybe, a gift of obedience like that of Ella of Frell, or maybe the gift of frankness like those of the mean girls (is that a gift or what??) or maybe the gift of beauty like those of mine… (char!!!)

Everyone must use their gifts in a way that we can help others and convert our weaknesses to strengths of ourselves.