Behind BNHS' Online Pride
By Jasmine Joyce Sevilla
Since we attended the seminar about web making, even up to this very minute that we are still together building our school’s website, we are drowned in so much honor that at last, Bataan National High School is visible to each and everyone all over the World Wide Web.
It wasn’t that easy. The road we’ve taken to build our school’s own website was full of difficulties. There comes the time when we got more than impatient and eager just to upload our site. And as soon as we are amidst of putting it online, errors occurred, message boxes pop out from nowhere saying a protocol is missing, wrong username and stuff like that. Yes, we had experienced those, a million times to date.
Since we are students and we are with a teacher, it is natural that we do a lot of things. All of us get busier and busier each day. And allotting a certain hour to continue website making is a punishment to each of us. It is so hard to find a perfect schedule for us to continuously build the site. But, since we are a team, it is our responsibility to sacrifice; even that very hour we allotted is our resting hour, we have to do the act of surrendering the least we can give just to finish our website.
I am not saying that building a website is like officially declaring our social life dead. It wasn’t that boring at all. All of us here are like a family. It is, at many points, a fun and enjoyable activity in a sense that we are getting much closer each day, we meet new people, gain friends and encounter hilarious experiences. It’s as if after our respective classes, we attend another class, only lesser in time and focuses on only one subject – website building.
We laugh. We get irritated. We become impatient. We become eager. All these, we do all together. And like what’s said on a song, that “Two Is Better Than One.” I’ve proved this all throughout the period that we are together building the online dream of our school; that we can’t be called a web team if there is only one doing the website; that we can’t even build a site if there is only one making, because I am more than sure that that person will die if he does it all by himself. With all the requirements and articles and documentations needed, a person cannot do that.
On top of this all, we have learned a very significant lesson: that all this time that we do the site making, it wasn’t only the website that we have built, but also the friendship, the web team and the memories we have created.
Now, the school’s website is currently in public viewing. And this mere fact blew all our toilsome days away. We are more than proud to say that BNHS is now online!
To all my fellow colleagues who contributed in making Bataan National High School’s website, I salute us all!
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