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My Autobiography

In a Southeastern Asian country of Philippines, in the Northeastern Luzon province of Isabela, there is a quiet town named Aurora. It is but a small town and simple day of Friday, July 11 and the year is 2003. A couple was awaiting their fourth and soon to be youngest child to this world. The couple was named Olivia and Juanito Blando. They already have 2 daughters named Eunice Joy and Lian Mae with their son named John Oliver. The mother, Olivia, push through the hardest of her life and it came a son. That is how I - Jhuan Ryan Blando - came to this world. Named after my father, with a single twist to Juan and my mother put an 'H' letter between to make my name recognizable and unique.

My childhood is not that much, my mother said to me. I am like other kids my age who wants to play outside all the time. Unlike other kids, however, I do not like having to wear anything that can make me uncomfortable like wearing a "Barong Tagalog" for the wedding of my aunt, Aunt Mercy. Also, ever since childhood, I do not like taking pictures of myself because of the shuttering sounds and the flash from the camera. From the get go, my mother instilled the ways of being a better person in terms of being a servant of God from a young age. She taught me how to pray, how to sing for the Lord and to read Bible always. Due to that, my mother insisted me to become a drummer in our church which I still do to this day. Of course, I have some friends that I made in my childhood years. Their names are John Michael Canta, Lorenz Angala and Mark Agilluz Ramos. I still think of them as still my friends even though one of them will have a tragedy later in my life.

For my elementary, I attended Aurora Central School which is a good public school and also a school in which all of my elder siblings graduated from. Maybe because I learned to write, speak and read in a private kindergarten, I was able to become a student in first section of the first grade. Due to that, my pride skyrocketed and it hit the ground hard. I was taught that there is a much harder competition here as it turns out that I am one of the five students in Grade 2 Section A that have the lowest average and so we 5 are demoted alongside my friend, Mark Agilluz Ramos. I was depressed but it was only for just a little time as I saw my first love, Rica Mae Diaz. It all started in Grade 3 but I first saw her back when we were in Grade 2 as she is related to my friend, Agilluz. I thought of her as a shy person just like me but I found her cute, beautiful even. I started to fall for her, dreamt about her every night I went to sleep and started to think that I will marry her someday but for me, a shy boy who still haven't got his puberty knew at the time that she can't be mine. Even so, she became my inspiration to be good in my studies to the point that I can answer questions faster than my former classmates in Section A and became Top 3 academically for 4 straight quarters but I never got to confessed because I was shy and have a fear of rejection until I got back to Section A during our Grade 4 and until I graduated in the year 2016, I never got to confessed to her which I think to this day that it was the best decision to not confessed.

I started my junior high school journey when I enrolled in Doña Aurora National High School. The schoolworks are almost the same and the lessons only got harder but with the Lord by my side, I was able to passed all my subjects in the school. Unfortunately, due to my upbringing in elementary school and my choices, I didn't have the luxury to have any relationship from another sex while my peers have, for me I think that it was a waste of time. Then tragedy struck when it was nearly the end of my Grade 8 year, my friend from childhood - John Michael Canta, died from brain tumor. He was only around 12 to 13 years old at the time. That is not all as my family have a problem that I alongside my mother wanted to go to Manila at the time with her in my Grade 9. I was devastated, of course, as I was planning to finished my JHS in the school where my own parents and my elder siblings graduated from. In my final year in JHS, I transferred to San Isidro National High School in Sitio Tanag San Isidro, Rodriguez (Montalban), Rizal. Here, another setback that I learned was that you should never raise your hand to answer any questions from the teachers ever again as long as it is not graded, when the teacher asks you personally to answer the question and when you are being reprimanded. As doing so, the teachers will never remember your name and will not make you the leader of a large project in a group. The last year falls to 2020 the time when CoViD Pandemic happened and my moving up ceremony never happened.

My senior high school days were filled with the days of the hellish online class or should I say, modular classes. I was still during my first years in senior high school I was part of the ABM strand in San Isidro Senior High School. To be honest, I never tried on doing any class work at all at the time, because it was tiring seeing modules and getting to your own pace with no teacher to see you doing your own work. Plus, my family were planning to go back here in Isabela, without any permit to go back at the time. We went back here in Isabela and at the time, DepEd was planning to go back to face to face classes so I was hoping that that year was the year that I can learn something new again not by myself again. I enrolled to Aurora Senior High School for a new school year as a Grade 11 repeater but this time I enrolled as a HUMSS student. Online class is still mandatory during the school year 2021-2022 but it almost went well without the say of my major subjects that I managed to have 60 on grades. I pleaded my adviser, Ma'am Beverly Paraiso, and my major subject teachers at the time that maybe I can take their subjects in Summer Class. They accepted and let me pass all of my requirements that I need to pass to them. In my grade 12, the face to face modality became the norm. I went back on a roll as I have a crush in my class but I was late to found out that she already was in a relationship already. She became my inspiration to the point that my friends in SHS, Lloyd Raguindin, Jonathan Castillo and Randy Uriel Vinoya didn't get the clue that I liked that girl because I lied to them liking a girl that I do not liked. I was able to get 4 consecutive With Honor Awards in my last year in SHS because of that girl as my inspiration. I did not get any With Honor medal in my SHS Graduation Ceremony in 2023 because of what my grades in Grade 11 are like with almost all subjects not getting the minimum requirement for an award but I was able to get the Outstanding Performer in Research Award which is I think is the best.

Because of the many things that happened to me during both high school, I decided to take a major in Education - particularly, in Secondary Education and majoring in Filipino Subject. I registered in 3 schools - my first choice was Philippine Normal University Main Campus in Manila, my second choice was the North Luzon Campus in Alicia Isabela, while my third choice was in Isabela State University - Cauayan Campus. However, my parents didn't want me to go and enroll in Manila as they deemed it to be dangerous. So, I continued in the 2 last choices. I later found out that I passed the entrance exam in PNU-NL but I did not passed the initial interview so I continued to enroll to ISU-Cauayan Campus but soon found out that BSEd slots are full already so I took Bachelor in English Language Studies which is the closest thing that can make me a teacher in the future. In my first semester, I found out that the course BAELS is not for me. I shift course during my first year going to second semester to BSIT and I chose Web and Mobile Applications Development as my track to help my church to have a software we can use every Sunday during service. It was hard to make the decision but for me, it was the best and literally the only decision I can make. Yes, I became an irregular student from my first year but I see it in the bright side. I am glad that I became an irregular student, even though many people say that being an irregular student is hard, as I do not find it to be hard because I can meet other people from lower years and also from higher years. As I continue with my journey through college as I am in my third year in college already with 2nd year subjects, I know that I am not alone and God will be with me for all times, until the end.

That is all that I can share to you. I know that many things will still happen to me but I will share it to you, my dear reader. Until next time, goodbye.