La Mia Vita, la Mia Storia
(My life, my story)
August 24, 1992 a rainy afternoon, Victoria Salcedo and Hermelito Salcedo got their last child. After they have their oldest daughter Jenneffer Salcedo followed by Jonathan Salcedo. This baby girl is bubbly, cute, and healthy. She grew up as a good kid. She experience childhood with fun memories even part of that are some pain cause by being clumsy and naughty. She has no problem with her family even sometimes her mom got mad to her because of her being brat. In terms of her socialization she is friendly. She always give a big smile to everyone she knows specially to those closed to her heart. When she was in her elementary days at C.P Sta. Teresa Elementary School, she remember how happy being an elementary student. The way her teacher teaches them songs she have a favorite song entitled “the more we get together”. They sang that song while holding hands with her classmate. But there is one thing that she always looks back to her elementary days. Well being a pupil is a start of getting to know lots of people and in that stage, she remembers how she have her first crush. She just remember the first name of that little boy who always gives her a bit of excitement to go to school. He is Mark John. She is not the only girl who crushes that boy actually half of her classmate has the same feeling with her. But she thinks that it was too early to be in love she is just 8 years old that time. She has a lot of memories with her elementary days. She experience to have a best friend and also enemies. She also did not forget when she and her childhood best friend Joanna they both all know about each other specially their secrets. Joanna sends her a letter telling that she’s mad because of some reasons. In short Joanna got jealous because she became closed to her best friend crush. She did not mind it, she did not even say sorry or talk to Joanna. So they become enemies they where grade 5 when it happens. But in their Graduation day they reconcile again, and she was happy because she is also the top 1 of her section, she was supposed to be happy but she did not feel it. She has a hard time that time. Because she feels that her parents is not happy with what she got. This is the part of her life that she feels that her parents did not proud to her because she cannot be as good as her sister and brother. Her siblings are good in academic they are always part of the list of honors since they were elementary until college, her sister got scholarship at DOST. While her, she just got top 1 to her classroom. She remembers when she tells to her parents that she got an award. At first they didn’t believe but she just kept it to herself what she feels. After that incident she decided not to be serious for her study because she thinks it’s just the same her parents will not happy for what she achieve. Until she became high school student at Bicutan Parochial School. Everything was new to her. She has her first “barkada” they have a name to the group “RBSN”. She was happy to have that kind of circle of friends. They are not became bad influence to her, they help her to accept everything that is not good and fight for what is right. That is also the time when she finally tells to her parents about her feelings, that she was always being compared to her siblings. She love to dance a lot that sometimes she just give her full attention that sometimes her parents get mad to her. But after the conversation to her mother about what she been through and feelings. Her mother supports her for what she’s doing with her academic and curricular activities. Her mother starts to watch some performance. And she was really happy; she realizes that she was wrong thinking that she doesn’t love by her parents. She was really happy and inspired until she graduated in high school.
She thought everything was in good. When a big problem came to her family. She is the only one studying that time when she reaches her college life. Her father lost the job for about 25 years. They started to have a financial problem specially that she was studying in a big university at Jose Rizal University at Mandaluyong. She took up bachelor of secondary education. Each day was a hard day for her because she always hears what her parents always say before she got to school. They always say that their life was hard because they don’t have big savings. The transportation fee is high, the tuition fee is also big that it can come to the point that they cannot provide her enough money that can cause not to attend her class. She always thinks their situation. Until she decided to find a job while she was studying. Until a good friend came and ask to give some help to her. She accept it, she thinks it can be a good job. She decided not to tell first to her parents. After the class she meets her friend. They meet at the SM Mega Mall at Ortigas. They attend a seminar that tells about business. The name of the company was UNO (Unlimited Networking Opportunity). She was a first timer to explore life; she never thinks twice, the offer was big enough to support her family and her study. So she grabs it, but there is a big problem Uno is a networking company and it is legal. But she needs a big amount of money to join the group. 7,300 how she can have that kind of amount. Her friend offers some kind of strategy to get money. It was too bad to her ear; her friend is one of her closed friend when they were high school. She was really shock when she sees herself doing what her friend advice to her. She sells her cell phone, but it’s not enough for her to have the 7,3 . She thinks that there is no choice so she decided to sell her mother’s phone that used for e-loads. And finally she got the amount and she is officially member of the company. Her mother doesn’t know what she did, her family thinks that someone rob the phone. She tells her family that she join a networking group. She also give some amount to her mother that she got from the company, in short her salary. Until her sister go to the globe to inform that the phone were their mother using for e-loads was lost. Unfortunately the remaining balance of the eload, she transfers it to her number and the globe detected it. And they give the number to her sister. So their family knows that she is the one who get the phone. Her mother and sister talk to her and ask why she done that kind of thing. That they did not force her to have a job. She feel so guilty for what she’s done, she cry hard and accept that she has a big mistake doing that kind of thing. It was too late, she already done it, what she can do is accept everything and fix herself. She was feel sorry about it, but her father decided not to send her to school, and do what she want. She was feeling bad she doesn’t want not to finish her study. So she thinks what she can do, he get his father phone and make a letter. Telling sorry and asking for another chance. It was a simple letter, and she was happy when her father said that she will not stop studying but she need to transfer to another school. And she accepts it. She fined another school that can fit to their budget and can give her a good offer of education. Until her another friend invites her to see her school The Fisher Valley College. She didn’t think twice so she tell to her mother that she find a school. And she enrolled at that school with same course. It’s been 1 year and 8 months since she left her old life and started a new one. New journey is what she has taking now, new family, new friends, new mentors and a new chance for her to achieve her goals. That young girl who phases many sidedness of life is now grown up and ready to change what mistake she’s been through. And that young lady is me, Krystal Jade T. Salcedo. A strong and full hearted daughter who sometimes did a mistake but change for her family and ready to make new memories that can mold me to be a better person this is my life, this is my story, and this is me.