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.