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Personal Reflection: Significant Events In High School

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Hyun Wook Choi 5
2 BS Management 162493 Sir. Lorenzo Z. Lerma

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One of the significant events happened in my life is when I was being bullied by my classmates back in first year. When I was studying back in Korea, I was used to be one of the noisy and mischievous (makulit) student. I believe that I was an extrovert back then because I was social with people and I never felt shy in front of them. I was a confident student but ever since the event happened, I became an introvert. I became one of the quite people who avoid being social and feel shy being focused by people. I guess there are some psychological perspective being involved.

The event happened when I moved to the Philippines to …show more content…

Few months after, I started going to a school called ‘Philippine Chen Kuang High School’ as a first-year high school student. It was a Chinese school which I never saw a single Chinese but everyone was a Filipino. The school taught English subjects in the morning then they taught Chinese subjects in the afternoon. When I started going to the school, of course, I did not understand what people were saying and that made me to become a quite student even more. The event happens when I started to interact with the classmates. I started asking stuff that I don’t understand in the classroom but they were just laughing at me. They never tried to help me with anything and I thought it was because either my pronunciation was bad or my grammar was wrong. Few days after I studied in the school, things happened. Things like someone stealing my books, someone putting trashes in my bag, someone cutting my books into half and more. I never knew why such things were happening but I knew who did those things. They were the guys seating at the back in the classroom who like to bully others. It even got worse that it went to the point they started to punch me without a reason. Maybe they

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