My Teacher, Your Teacher, Our Heroes!!!

TEACHERS CELEBRATE THEIR DAY WITH THE STUDENTS

The School's Auditorium the official venue for this year's teacher's day

0ctober 5, 2012, A.C.I. Sorsogon- The fifth day of the month is not just a regular day to our fellow students and teachers, it is a day were we celebrate and thank our ma’am and sirs for their hard work.

This year the faculty were surprised by the sudden abduction from their faculty room.

Photo Snapshots

 

Kidnapped!!!- Students blindfold their superiors before departing to their rendezvous point

 For ransom- Students with their hostage counterparts arrive at the rendezvous point; the school’s chapel

Turning point- Teachers are escorted to their next destination point



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                          Photos are from the Associated Press                                                     

Sportfest Bonanza

Aemilians gear up for Intrams'12

DLC High School Dept. preparing for Day Two's upcoming Parade


 A.C.I. ,Sorsogon City- In every September, Aemilians from all sections of the province celebrate their annual foundation week with a ton of events such as a mass, a mass demo, parade, a pageant and of course a sports-fest( which they call in-trams).


 DAY 1

The celebration of the mass is the traditional start of every intramurals

Elementary Students preparing for the mass demo

Before everything, everyone gathered at the school gymnasium for a peaceful mass, then the torch was lighted to signal the start of the 5-day celebration and finally the mass demonstration of the students.

In the afternoon contestants of the Mr. and Mrs. ACI: Intrams 2012 showed off their skills in front of hundereds of audience







DAY 2
  

A sea of blue as dozens of seniors are included of hundreds that joined the parade in DAY 2

DLC Elementary division making its way to downtown Sorsogon

The day started with a parade across the downtown districts of the city, after the exhausting event, the DLC from the elementary and high school division performed an exhibition followed by the unveiling of the bronze statue of the school's patron saint. After the said event the first game officially starts with the kite flying contest, a game based for these years theme. 


Day 3-5

  The ball games

Sepak Takraw in the school's quadrangle

A Soccer match between Juniors and Seniors

Everybody's waiting for is finally here. Its time to test the abilty of each team, which do you think will win?

AWARDING NIGHT: VICTORY BALL

Athlethes from Team Seniors with St. John's adviser (lower left w/pink shirt) and the principal (middle w/pink shirt).

After the five day onslaught, one team rose from the grounds of these years’ games. Winners were the combined efforts of the sections St. John and St. Clare which makes up of Team SENIORS!!!




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                                        Photos are from the Associated Press
 
 
 

Buwan ng Wika Festivities

A.C.I. CELEBRATES THE “BUWAN NG WIKA”

 The School Quadrangle's stage along with the School's Quadrangle are the official venues for this years Buwan ng Wika culminating activity events.

 

Sorsogon City, Philippines- Every August the Department of Education , Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino(in eng. Commission of the Language Filipino), Aemilianum and all the schools across the archipelago celebrate the buwan ng wika or Language Month. It is celebrated on the 8^th month of the year in honour of our national language which is Filipino (basically based in Tagalog). This year’s motto: “Tatag ng Wikang Pilipino, Lakas ng Pagka-Pilipino” or in English, “The solidarity of the Filipino language is the strength of being a Filipino”.

Culminating Activities

Class IV-2 a.k.a. The St. Clare class' performance during the chorus recital

Sabayang Pagbigkas- In English, chorus recital, all sections of the school participate the event showing different styles on how to perform this year’s recital: Wikang Filipino sa Pambansang Kalayaan at Pagkakaisa (Filipino, the language of Freedom and Unity) by Pat V. Villafuerte.

                             A photo of one of the games in the Laro ng Lahi event

Laro ng Lahi- Or game of the ancestors is another event where students play some locally Filipino made games.

                    Contestants of the Mutya ng Wikang Pambansa event

Mutya ng Wikang Pambansa- In other words Maiden of the National Language is a search contest made especially for the girls (from the word Maiden which means young women of course, so no man can  possibly enter, otherwise....). It is a contest to find a young blossoming girl who has beauty, talent and finally has a know-how in the Language of Filipino.

St. Jerome's Grandure Apperance

Mass held in A.C.I. for St. Jerome's Departure

People gathered inside the Aemilianum Gymnasium for a mass in honor for the departure of St. Jerome's relic


Sorsogon City, Philippines- On the 30th of July, the Aemilianum College Inc. along with the Diocese of Sorsogon held a mass at the school's gymnasium. From Preschool to College and faculty staff, all attended to see the relic before it will go on a long voyage to Cebu in the Central Visayas Region.


 How did it get here....


From Italy it took a big amount of Euros to transfer a small piece of relic from Venice to Philippines. It is suppose to be his chains but the Government of Italy rejected the favor because it is considered to be national treasure of Italy.

The relic: a piece from the past

 St. Jerome Emiliani's relic (inside the glass pendant in the chest of the wooden model of the said saint)

A relic is a part of the body of a saint or a venerated person; it can be classified up to 3 classes. First class comes from their bodies (e.g. bones, hair), Second class comes from the things that they use everyday (e.g. dress, staff, shoes) and the last the Third class comes from things they touched like for example walls.

In this case, the one that visited Sorsogon is a First class. It is said to be either his collar bone or his pelvis. It is so small it can’t be capture in camera without zooming it.

Emiliani to Aemilians

Aemilianum College, a school in the west district of the city is the official home of the relic while it was in the Province.

                              Official Seal Of Aemilianum College

St. Jerome is the school’s patron saint and in tribute for the relic’s visit and his last day in Sorsogon a mass live on tv was attended by all Students. This is a once-in-a life time experience to all since they will all meet the piece which makes their patron saint a whole.
   

Nutrition Month in the eyes of the youth

Nutrition Month in the eyes of the youth

         Poster making, a annual event during nutrition month in every school across the nation.




Every 7th month of the year the government's health department  and most of the schools across the nation celebrate the Nutrition month but how does young and the youth understand this special annual event?

This years theme…..

        

            ''Pagkain ng gulay ugaliin, araw-araw itong ihain''

In English "Eating vegetables should be practice and to be served everyday" is this years nutrition month theme it basically means that eating vegetables should be eaten everyday so it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.


So how does the youth understand this... well basically they think that the goverment wants them to eat the said food group everyday to where it is considered as a same equal level to rice which many of us cannot live without.

Many others disagree with the theme today because the other food groups hold other important nutrients to which the veggie doesn't have. My colleague even said to me that it should be “ISKARGU” an acronym that means ISda, KArne, GUlay (in english fish, meat, vegetables respectably) in order to have proper nutrition.

                                       chopsuey, a famous veggie dish which meat can be ommitted if wanted
 

HOW CAN THIS AFFECT A YOUTH’S BODY?

   If you’re a vegetarian you may be immune to this but if you are a meat-lover you’re not, in the possibility of having “veggie fatigue”. As much as you can have more, you can’t have much because our bodies do need other things like protein, iodine, fats and oils(yes, but not too much) and others that can be found in poultry and other sea foods.

  Plus as an mid-age adult you may know this that some veggies has some limitations like for example, beans, too much of that and the result of that will be piles of health problems like arthritis, kidney stones, gallstones, hypertension (for peeps who don’t get, it’s simply high blood) and forgot to mention you can also emit a much more worse gas from your backside (and nobody wants that).

HOW SHOULD THE YOUTH MAINTAIN HIS/HER PROPER NUTRITION?

Too much something can kill you and that’s a fact, you must follow what is required at your age though it’s okay to follow the chart (e.g. the food pyramid) but you should remember to follow what your body needs and another thing your looks came from what you eat.

St.Jerome Emiliani

St. Jerome Emiliani: A Different Kind of Saint

 
Born in Venice in 1486, the youngest of four brothers, Jerome Emiliani went through an adventurous youth. In 1531 he decided to abandon any military, political, and economical career. Though a layman, he dedicated himself to a unique mission: to share his life with the poor and to build a community with homeless children. His Christian experience took shape inside the Catholic Reformation through the movement of the Divine Love, under the guidance of such illustrious people as Cajetan Thiene (Founder of the Theatines), and John Peter Carafa (Pope Paul IV).
As a member of the Confraternity of the Divine Love, Jerome became a valuable organizer of the works of Charity in Venice (the Hospital of the Incurables and the Shop of St. Rocco). The fame gained in this field took him through the cities of Northern Italy such as Verona, Vicenza, Brescia, Bergamo, Milan, Como, and Pavia. The Bishops of these towns invited Jerome to organize works of mercy in their dioceses.
Around Jerome a group of cooperators started to take shape and some of them decide to take up his lifestyle. Consequently the "Company of the Servants of the Poor" was born. Today, it is called the Congregation of the Somascan Fathers and Brothers. Jerome died in Somasca, February 8, 1537, after having contracted the plague from the sick he was assisting during the epidemic. It was his last supreme gesture of love, according to the command of the Lord to lay down one's life for the others.