When can I finally graduate?

“The most difficult school is the school of hard knocks. One never graduates.” (McKenzie, E.C., 14,000 QUIPS & QUOTES)


In less than three months, I will be graduating from high school already. I will finally be enduring my fours years in high school with the help of God.

Being a student of UP High School is really not that easy. Not that I brag about it, but it is that tough I tell you, especially that we are under the Science Curriculum. You would surely be facing a lot of difficult experiences which would definitely test how strong you are. You have to adjust with your teachers, your classmates, your schoolmates, the school rules, the school itself and many more. The trials and hardships that I have undergone for the past years in my high school life are still fresh in my memory.

I still remember how I felt so frustrated when I was in first year high school because of our group’s investigatory project. Not that it was a failure but that I know we could have done better if we worked harder. I cannot forget how I felt so embarrassed when my Math teacher during my sophomore days asked me to solve a problem on the board and unfortunately I did not know the answer at all. It was so embarrassing that I wanted to cry in front of my teacher and my classmates. Good thing I was able to hold my tears. Also during second year high school, I could not forget the time when the cheer dancers, including me, went home at about 11:00 pm the night before the contest just to polish our steps and ended as the last placer in the contest proper. It was so tiring and disappointing at the same time. When I was in third year high school, my patience was really tested when the topics I submitted for my research proposal were always rejected. I was really about to give up that time. Right now, I am bombed with so many things to do in school – assignments, projects, home works, examinations plus a lot of things-to-do from my extracurricular activities. There are also so many activities lined up for us – Know Your School Day, JS Promenade, Science and Technology Week which would include our Research Defense, Family Day and many more.

Those were just a few of my experiences, hard experiences I guess. Those were actually the reasons why I am so excited to graduate. But then as I think about it, the hardships and difficult challenges will not end there at all. Yes, I will be graduating from high school but absolutely not from the school of hard knocks. That is, difficult or challenging experiences that are considered to be instructive. I believe the quotation above is truthful. No one graduates from it. But you know what, those hardships are the ones that enable me to keep on striving even harder to reach my dreams in life, to cross the other side of the rainbow. I believe there is always a reward for all the challenges you go through, there will always be a pot of gold waiting at the end of the rainbow. Besides, I am still young, I am still sixteen and I still have a long way to go. I just have to be strong and to trust in God to help me go through all these things.

Get to know me more

Hi! Let me start my first entry by sharing to you a little bit of myself.

My full name is Gayle Lorraine Asor Tallo. Gayle and Lorraine were actually characters from different novels my mom was reading when she was pregnant with me. Anyway, I am 16 years old and will turn 17 come September 24. I’m the eldest in the family and I have two younger siblings – a boy and a girl. My brother’s name is Aiden Bruce and is now 14 years old. My sister, Charisse will turn 13 this February 26. My father, Lowell, is a pastor and a teacher at the same time. My mother, Ruth, is a registrar and a teacher as well. Both of my parents are teaching in a Bible School.

I am presently a senior from the University of the Philippines High School in Cebu. I am actually planning to take up Mass Communications still at UP if ever I pass the UPCAT. Right now, I am occupied with a lot of schoolwork. But it is okay because God is my strength and I know that I can do all things with His help. Aside from academic activities, I am also involved with a few extracurricular activities in school that also requires my time. Currently, I am involved with the Netizens.Org and the Student Council. Despite of my busy schedule, I still make it a point to be involved with the ministries of our church. The ministries that I am involved are the Praise and Worship Ministry and the Youth Ministry which we call MYX (Molded Youth in Christ).

Introvert – this is the best word to describe myself. I am really a bashful person and I do not talk that much. I think I am not the ideal person you would want to be with especially in our first meeting. It is because I am really not used to do the talking first. But I believe I have to change this characteristic of mine if I would want to take up Mass Communications. But hey, once we start to know each other, I assure you everything will be fine. It is because I value and treasure my friends. Once you would mess up with my family and friends, you would mess up with me as well.

Most of the time, I do things on my own. I really do prefer working alone than working with a group. I believe that I am more productive with my work if I work alone. I do not know why, but I think I really am a loner. But I do socialize with other people. I am not that type who just sits on one side of the room and just zip my mouth the whole time. But I could be very silent the whole time though.

I am the kind of person who is very fond of daydreaming. I actually have a long list of my dreams. Though some of my dreams would sound impossible, I do not really care because it’s free to dream. And I am living to my dreams.

That is basically about me. It is not actually the complete details of my life but I hope you knew me better though.