Hello! Welcome to my first ever blog! I Hope you’ll enjoy reading this!
Let me introduce myself to you. My name is Shakira Patrimonio Lanuzo. A half bisaya and half bicolano or “bisakol”, my mother once said. My mother is a bisaya and the love of her life;my father is a bicolano. I speak in Filipino, Rinconada, a little bit of English(when needed) and Bisaya. I was born on the 6th day of August, year 2004 and was born in San Esteban ,Nabua, Camarines Sur Philippines. I’m a 15 year old girl and turning 16 this coming August 06 year 2020. I’m the second born daughter of Elmarie Patrimonio Lanuzo and Charlie Follosco Lanuzo. I have three siblings; Daisyre, Mark Angelou, and the most stubborn among us, Darwin, our fourth and last.
My neighbors often called me “Lalay”(well that’s my nickname) which is I don’t know how and why is it like that. For me that’s a good sobriquet :). I’m a grade 10 student at NNHS (Nabua National High School). When it comes to school, others call me “shaki-shaki”,the other one said “shala”, here comes the next, “shak”, “shaki”, “kira”, “samina mina” and etc. and it’s interesting!
I have lots of hobby than what you are expecting. My number one hobby is singing. Since I was a little girl, I was singing time to time. When there are celebrations or occasions in my neighborhood or my family, I always get the microphone of the videoke and then sing loudly with an ignorant face. I remembered their laugh’s, smiley faces. Now that I’m a big girl, I loved music more! When I hear my favorite songs, I sang it from my heart and I feel contented.Other hobbies that I love are; swimming, watching movies( horror, comedy, love story, tragic), watching basketball, playing with my cousins and I love dancing BUT it doesn’t loves me. I accept that! My favorite foods/beverages/desserts are; spaghetti, fried chicken, fries, ice cream, grahams, coke float and more!
When it comes to studying, I am very hard-working for it. I’m a consistent honor student since elementary and studying hard to reach my mission, which is to become a nurse. I have other course that I want to pursue, like Engineering ( Mechanical Engineer ) But since I have only one body, I will focus on my first course which is Nursing. This coming another school year, I will take the STEM strand. I want to be a nurse because simply, I want and love Biology and helping others when it talks about the human body or maybe animals. When I finished my first course and I passed the board exam and then I will try to study Engineering. I will pursue it! Also, I wanted to be a theater actress and a singer. When it is Saturday and Sunday, I will watch “The voice teens” and dreaming that I can stand on that stage and singing in front of them confidently. I just dreaming and dreaming. I have many dreams in life. I will keep dreaming every single day.
When I was grade 3, my classmate always calling me”pandak” because of my height. I think, they are saying that, because they are taller than me. That’s bullying for me. Just running wherever I may be.
Now that I am a high school student, I meet a new classmates, schoolmates, and specially a new friends.I also meet another bullies.They didn’t stop bullying or teasing me. I realized that understanding them is the best. I let them bully me because time goes by and they will stop.
One moment, I went in my room to cover my ears to not hear Mama and Papa’s fight. I was crying at that time. There’s so many questions in my mind but nobody answers. I feel like my family is slowly breaking. I don’t want that to happen, I don’t want to have a broken family. Their quarrel followed. My mom and dad feelings are far from each other not like they are from the start. But they did not separate. They did it for us; for their childrens. Now that I’m grown up, I’m not so close to Papa. I don’t know why. When it talks about my father I’m very weak but, his presence made me strong. When he’s in here I feel stronger!
“Tears clean the windows of your soul” — Nick Vujicic
This line really touches my inside me. Yes, when you let yourself cry, you feel like you’re heart was cleaned, no doubts, and you feel perfect. I just cry in the corner of my bedroom and then let it be. Praying that they will stop teasing me and imagining that God’s beside me, hugging my whole me and wipping my tears that slowly dropping into my cheeks. The show must go on!
I picked the song “girl in the mirror” by Britney Spears co’z it really reflect in my personality. I sometimes cry at night when I remember Papa and Mama happy together. There’s a question in me, ” what if they back together?” no hatred in their hearts. Im afraid of everything. I look in the mirror and imagining that Papa is hugging me maybe a glimpse. His hug is the most I love! That hug saying that be brave and believe in God!.
Thanks for reading my blog until the end:) I’m Shakira Patrimonio Lanuzo Me, Myself and I.
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