Think Beyond what is asked! C.L.E. Reflection Paper

I admit that these passed years of celebrating Christmas, in my mind when I hear the word Christmas the word that comes instantly in my mind is the word GIFT because every Christmas, I am really expecting many gifts and I don’t really think about the true meaning of celebrating Christmas but instead, I am thinking of my own happiness but my experience during this Christmas Vacation is that, I realized that giving of gifts and preparing for foods during the Christmas are not the important focus of this significant occasion but rather the recognizing of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem Starting from the afternoon of December 18, 2010 and after our Christmas party, as a part of the LCB-A, we helped or participated during the fellowship day that afternoon where in all our partner barangays and schools were present to enjoy our games with lots of prizes like 1 kilo of rice and sugar, a box of milk, a bar of soap, a pack of coffee and etc. they are also there to enjoy the food we and the teachers prepared and to receive our gifts for them or rather for every family that attended and participated there. Our hosts, Ms. Adrias and Sir. Secular, really contributed a lot in making the people there who attended smile and laugh out loud because of their jokes and dances and etc. So after all, the games, the eating ,the dances and etc., we, the LCB-A and the teachers gave out our little gifts where it includes a 3 kilos of rice, I think, cans of sardines, noodles, coffees, candies and etc. and of course our shoeboxes where the goodies like dresses, toys and foods are stored inside the boxes. From that they on, I am not expecting that I could really enjoy serving the people there and I realized that It’s better to give than really to receive. And from that day on and the passed days, while watching the programs and advertisements in the television that, Christmas, is a season of giving and forgiving because from the channel that I watched on they really organized a program for their actors and actresses to enjoy the true meaning of Christmas by helping their partner communities but there are challenges that they are going to pass through before they can get the awards for their partner communities includes 1000 pairs of shoes, 100 bikes for the children, 500 sacks of rice and etc…. And because of these challenges the true meaning of Christmas was actually getting step by step in the hearts of the actors and actresses and also to the viewers of that T.V. program including me. The advertisements also helped me to discover what is really the true meaning of Christmas especially the togetherness of the members of the families, these advertisements led me to think that Christmas also is a season of unity and love between families and also to others. But, from the pass Christmas and New Year, me and my family is really celebrating these significant occasions with my other relatives not just with my family but with our relatives too.