The only time that I have to become anonymous is when one of my high school friends is getting abused by her dad. At first, I thought she got in a fight between her friends since I saw a huge black eye on her left eye and some scratches on both hands. But I began to notice that each week there’s always a new bruise appearing on both her arms. I was skeptical first to ask her about what’s happening to her but she did not answer any of my questions in fear that the school may find out about her situation. Another week later she finally decided to talk to me, at first she doesn’t want me to know who’s hitting her and she told me not to tell anyone, which is I agree to do so. But I know that staying quiet would not solve anything about her situation. So what I did is that I told one, my teacher, about her situation and I specifically told them not to mention my name since she may think that I betrayed her. Additionally, at that point, I called the hotline.org and anonymously told the situation of my friend. After that point, she stops coming to school and even today I don’t know what happened to her situation by I know for the facts that I was able to do something about her situation.
Author: Ralph Lauren C Ocampo
Journal Assignment 1 by Ralph Lauren Ocampo
Finding real friends in this technological era is harder than finding a needle in a haystack. Well, first of all not all, the friends that we meet from college and other places are just temporary. Some people may find real friends on a college campus and some may not. In my definition of friends is that friends supposed to help each other out, they are supposed to fight once in a while since no person is perfect and lastly, they would stick together no matter how hard each situation can be. In that definition of Friend, I found a friend during my high school days. Iris, was the captain of the Girls Volleyball Team, while I was the captain of the Boys Volleyball Team. Our school has only one gym. yes, only one gym could accommodate one team only which may sound strange to others who go to a bigger school than mine. Since we are both captains of each club, Iris and I often arguing who would be using the gym since only one team could practice at once. Most of the time my team and I always have the priorities to use the gym since we have more wins in our name than the girls’ volleyball team.
people may not realize how heavy the role of the captain on the sports where you are in charge to make sure everyone is practicing to further develop their skills. In a nutshell, we hated each other, we hated each other so much we often cursing each other out and often disturbing each other practice which resulted in both teams be banned practicing for one week. Somehow during lunch, I found myself sitting alone in the lunchroom. But somehow Iris managed to find me and sat next to me, then we started talking, start giving each other advice and next thing you know we become friends. All the fights Iris and I have basically the one that helped us to become friends, where we would support each other and stand side to side with each other. The significance of this friendship is that she and I are to overcome the impossible together, remember we only have one court and somehow we managed to fit in two teams in one court without disturbing each other practice. Basically, if I only try to understand her earlier all the fights we have the would-be avoidable.
So far we may have not faced any real challenge yet, but our friendship would last. In fact, we still practice together every time we have each time for each other.
