Moi 🙂

Bonjour! Je m’appelle Mark Victor B. Herrera.  je parle un peu français . Je parle anglais et philippin.  J’ai 18 ans. Je suis né le 30 août 2000.

j’habite à Taguig City. Je viens de Taguig City aux Philippines.

J’aime faire du basketball. Je fais du basketball tous les samedis au village.

Mon équipe préférée est les Boston Celtics

Mes Amis

Voila mes Amis.

mes amis aussi étudié à l’Ateneo.

Ils étudient les sciences de l’environnement.

Mes amis viennent de différentes écoles, comme Pisay, Woodrose et Don Bosco.

Je prend du français avec Victor et Melissa.

Nous aimon manger a LST, Area 2 et Jsec.

Nous aimons aussi boire à Lan Kwai et Pop Up.

mes amis détestent les grenouilles.

pour quoi?

Disséquer pour la zoologie. HAHAHAHA

le nom de ma grenouille est Kermita

J’aime mes amis.

Ma Famille

Voila ma famille.

Mon  père est un homme d’affaires.

Il a 49 ans.

Ma mère est médecin

Elle est 51 ans.

Elle est née le 15 juillet 1968.

hier.

J’ai 2 frères.

Ils appellant Gian et Kevin.

Gian, 24 ans est aussi homme d’affaire

Il a petite amie. Elle s’appelle Mona.

Mona etudie Dentisterie a Centro Escular University.

Kevin, 17 ans aussi etudie a l’Ateneo.

Il est au Senior High.

j’aime la famille

Merci beaucoup

Hi sir,

The Lesson that really got me thinking especially about myself was the gender lesson. While studying for our 3^rd or 2^nd LT , I found out that I was part of the intersex sex. It was listed there Hypospadia was counted and I remembered that, that’s what I have. I was operated when I was in Kinder and Prep to fix the appearance of my penis. So when I was reviewing I searched what it was, it’s implicatins and other things. I found out that I have low testosterone in my body. I guess that explains my lack of facial hair and leg hair as both my brothers and father have a goatee and lots of leg hairs. I remember also, asking my mom before that if my urethra were a few inches lower would I be a female, since my Hypospadias was severe where the urethra was really low where the penile shaft and scrotum met.

When I was thinking about this I remembered the play Boy. In Boy, it was about a boy who had an infant circumcision gone wrong so she was raised as a girl. And, He/She had all the questions and everything. Before he found out what he really was. Growing up, I always thought that my condition was only physiological. But, this year I learned that hormones were involved too. And, in school and by my brothers I remembered would always tease me gay for displaying effeminate behaviour. And, I think the hormones contribute to that? However, that’s okay no harm was done.

I remember, also in class about intersectionality. Well, since only my family and some classmate, cause I used that sometimes as a “fact about me” when you introduce yourself in the first day of school, knows I never really felt oppressed because of my condition or sex. Growing up looking like a regular boy, it was okay for me. In my PPCT, boys are not marginalized and since nobody knows about my sex I never really felt oppressed because of this.

Also, I remember in Bronfenbrenner and globalization modules that a person is complicated. Each of us have our own PPCT and all of these interact with each other that influences us and each other as well. Also in the PPCT, since the world that we live in mostly globalize we have our own local and global self. Which is complex and amazing? With that, that means that more than hormones and sex defines you, since you influence your own PPCT as PPCT influences you.

In this class, I learned how the individual can influence the environment and how the environment can influence the individual. When I was shocked about the discovery of me being part of the intersex community, I did not know what to feel. I was intrigued by the discovery and I am not sure of its implications. But, reflecting about it, the discovery did not changed my upbringing and early development. It also did not changed my PPCT growing up and now. It also did not change my habitus. It kinda changed my oppression matrix, but not really. This discovery just told me that I was part of a group. That I was intersex. But, previous Socsci lessons reinforced that even though now that I found out that I was intersex I am still me. I am still Mark born August 30 2000.From Taguig studied in Ateneo from GS to now.Likes Basketball, Movies and the Boston Celtics. I am still all that just now that I’m intersex. We still don’t know what the future holds, but I think my discriminations and opportunities will still be the same.

It was fun semester sir, Thank you and God Bless 🙂

For my Binhi, we went to Guanella center. Guanella is a home for people with special needs. Most of them are abandoned and they were left there and Guanella takes care of them now. One of the residents always says Jollibee, since his older brother left him there and he told him that he would go back and he would just get Jollibee. When I first chose Guanella, I was hesitant. I was only able to choose this site, because I got the last batch during the enlistment and this was the only one available. I had no choice. Plus, I thought working with people with special needs would be tiring,stressful and dragging. As one of the five tenets of injustice says that prejudice is natural.

Well, I was wrong. Yes, it was tiring, but it was fun and fulfilling. For the first day we went there and made paper airplanes and played with them. The next week, we helped them with the chores first. Then, played in the court patintero and danced. While, we were doing these you can see really that the kids were happy, since they have someone to play with and the staff were relieved that we were there as this was like some kind of a rest for them as the kids have other people to play with.

Since, they were people with special needs like autism and down syndrome, they said that routine is a big deal for them. Breaking their routine may cause tantrums and other disturbances. I guess this is their habitus. They have a daily routine that makes them do their chores. And, when we were helping them with the chores like sweeping the driveway they were very possessive of the broom and dustpan as if saying that it was their chore not yours. Also, because of this routine we need to wait for a while before we could play as play starts at 9am for them and we were a little early.

Also, because of their disabilities they can get a little rowdy at times. There was this one kid who kept pinching everyone and Juancho got pinched 11 times. There was also Danny. He was a big kid I think he had autism . He cried, when his paper airplane got stuck. But,he was very sweet he would always greet us with hugs and would always be smiling.

The experience that the 2 Saturdays we spent in Guanella was great. It was fun interacting with them, even if I initially thought that it would have been dragging and tiring. The experience really helped me change my initial thoughts, as they were really sweet and welcoming. Playing with them was also fun and was a nice way to get some seperation from school and other things. Also, we must consider in Guanella that most kids were left there, since their parents or guardians were less fortunate. I think that is where intersectionality came in to play as they were not only disabled but less fortunate as well.

All in all, my experience in Binhi was great. It is good that Ateneo has programs like this to help marginalized sectors and also expose us to things like this. The lessons in Socsci were very evident in my Binhi experience. They helped me understand the context that the residents of Guanella were in and it also gave insight on how to help them now as a student and in the future. My Binhi experience also made me realize that we must be kind and understanding towards others.

Hi it struck me how our emotions are just chemical reactions in the brain. Also the part where sir mentioned about Jethro Rafael the owner of Van Gogh is Bipolar, since I love watching his Ted talk. To be honest i don’t really know what I learned about myself this week but it was sad discussing the feeling self and happy discussing the mindful self. I guess we can apply this to life when comforting our friends. Emotion is fleeting and we can be there for them in this sad times, also its just chemicals in the mind so we can help induce serotonin and dopamine to them making them happy or just help them accept that they are sad and empathize with them.

It struck in the lessons from PPCT to globalization is that the developing person has a lot things going through with it. For PPCT we only discussed how the process person context and time affects a single person and how all these interact to influence the person. It struck me, that all of these interact and all of us have PPCTs of our own. These then interact and influence each other. Thats really complex and amazing.

Add the fact, that we also have our local and global self that also contributes to this. Damn.

With that I learned that a lot of things factor in developing myself. A lot of things go through why I react to a certain thing or something. With that since ourselves are developing we must explore it to get to know it more since it is really complex.

In life, I think that since a lot of factors really affect a person. We must be kind and respect others always, because we don’t really what they’re going through. And being kind to them may help them through it also.

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton