Claudine R.

Gabison ARCHBP2

INTEGRATIVE REFLECTION PAPER

The first activity which is about “Character Strength” activity made a good purpose on me
because after doing the activity I am able to give some time on my weaknesses that I knew. I have
improved my weaknesses and turn it as my strength. Knowing my strength and weaknesses really
helped me to know which things I’m weak at, after it I did reflect and see for myself if I did my part
making it happen to change my weaknesses and so I did. One thing that really got me to focus on was
my sixth to the lowest strength and it’s about prudence, which means that I an not being careful in
every choice that I made. There really are times that I can be independent and dependent. Studying
far away from my parents wasn’t easy, and I took this advantage to enhance my decision making.

The story of my life activity made me hold onto where I am right now. I remember the last time
I read my essay about this activity, it’s when we’re having so much plates to do. And after reading it I
realized that I had faced many struggles before and there’s no such thing that hinders me to keep
going to what I’ve been through. Now is the time to be more stronger and be more eager in reaching
my goals in life.

Third activity is about what my ideal self was. This activity helped me visualize what will I be in
the future. This served as my pattern to walk through, and visualising like it helped me boost up myself
in being strong that I will be able to cope all struggles that I’m going to face. It also served as my key
on pursuing what I was taking right now. And I will take those path with lessons that have enlightened
me.

Satisfaction of physical self characteristic test was given to us. And it was about how I’m satisfied
about my physical self. After answering the test, overall it turned out that I’m very satisfied with my
physical self. I’m proud that I’m satisfied with my physical self, and it really means that I am confident
with what I have physically and it just showed up that I don’t have enough reason to be insecure with
what others have with their bodies. I’m happy because not everyone has a complete part of the bodies
that functions well and help us in our daily activities.

What makes me beautiful is our fifth activity and I was able to put things that made me beautiful.
It’s through the help of my friends I asked them about the positive things about me that I have inside
and outside. And I got the answers that I want to hear. I just found out that even though I have some
negative things there are still things that best describes me. It feels good knowing that there are
people who appreciates your goodness and not your badness.

Rosenberg self-esteem scale is an activity in which we happen to know if we do have a low self-
esteem or high self-esteem. In this activity I’ve found out that I really have low self-esteem. There are
times that I always feel that I’m a person of no worth. But these days I overcame it and finally I can
say that my self-esteem has increased and that because I just gave myself respect. And I do believe
that if you do have a respect on yourself it’s when you start building your self-esteem.

Our seventh activity is all about “The life inside the womb” by Atlas. In this activity I found out
how a baby grow inside every mother’s womb. Not just about that, this also helped us be aware when
we’ll be facing this situation sooner when we have our jobs and husband. There are some lessons also
that we have learned like it wasn’t easy being pregnant and if we’re happen to have interest on being
pregnant we should always remember that this isn’t the right time to be in this kind of struggle.

Love scale test has helped me to know if I’m way smart being in love and I can say that I’m not.
And I already knew it, because I wasn’t exposed yet in being in love and that I will be needing more
times to explore the world of love and know when is the right time to fall in love. And in that time I
should say I will treasure that love because God prepared it for me and I won’t let anything ruin it.

In the ninth activity which is about love language test, I noticed that words of affirmations turned
out first on my five love language and it has scored 8 points. Actions don’t always speak louder than
words. I begun to be more inspired and keep on going when there are people around me who
encourages me through their words. But it doesn’t mean that actions didn’t matter, there are just
times that I need to be motivated by praising my works. I think it’s not that I just wanted my works to
bloom than the others. It’s just that it words of affirmations are more helpful for me in keeping my
works better and better every time.

Multiple intelligence inventory is like the test that we’ve taken in the past three years which is
the ENCAI. In this activity all our interests are being categorised. This activity has shown where we’re
really good at and where we aren’t. And it turned out that my top 1 types of learning is the verbal. I
wasn’t really good in communicating with people before but now I have confidence to speak and be
sociable than I was before. When I was in senior high I competed on many activities that doesn’t
concern on being verbally good but that was the time that many people have recognized me and
maybe that was the reason why I become verbally good because I was known in our school and I
gained many friends back then.

Our last activity is about coloring pages this activity I realized why my mother always gave me
coloring books back when I was little. No wander why because my mom wanted me to explore and
visualize what life really means through coloring books. That was the time that I did know that there
isn’t any wrong in making mistake it’s just I lose fears of making mistakes. But the next time we
encounter things like this we should be more smarter in making decisions whether your choice would
affect someone or not.

Among our activities my favorite one is the last activity which is coloring pages it’s because I was
born having potential on the world of arts. That’s the reason why I took my course of being an architect
I loved arts.
 And my least favorite is about the love scale test, I don’t know why but I just hate it when I was
given questions that concerns love. A love that is about couples, as I have said before I wasn’t exposed
yet on being in love. I don’t know the exact feeling of being in love and be love by someone. I always
say to myself that this isn’t the right time being in a relationship. We ahould wait for God’s will because
God has reserved someone that will love you the way God has loved us.