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The Unexpected Gift
January 27, 2008
The Unexpected Gift
by Eireen Camille See Linang
It was in the year 2004, when I was in 5th grade, our adviser, Mrs. Andres, always asked us to write and rewrite letters. She wanted us to be good conversationalists someday in and out of our country.
One day, she assigned us an activity to make a friendly letter to tell the author how great his work is. The next day, our teacher picked the best work and I was shocked when she announced that I was the one who had the best work. I felt nervous and a little bit flattered because that was the first time to know that I had a potential in writing my own ideas and also expressing my own feelings about the story I have read.
Weeks later, just about in the beginning of September, a teacher asked us to write a short story about nutrition because it was nutrition month at that time and they would pick some stories and poems that could be published in our school newspaper. So all of us tried to join in the said story making. At the end of the school year, all the school newspapers were all distributed. I was kind of shocked because my work was picked and was published in our school newspaper.
I thought that it would be my last work to be published. But I was wrong.
July of last year (2007), I read a newspaper from our magazine box and I have read that there is a gift that waits for whoever will contribute his own composition. Because I was curious of the said gift, I quickly contributed my three poems through the internet. After a month I didn’t expect that two of my works would be published in the school paper and the newspaper that I was published on was the school paper that was given to all the teachers in the division.
I realized that it’s not the gifts that count. It’s the joy I’ve felt while sharing my thoughts and feelings through my writings.
