The document describes the author Pauline Jane P. Rigodon reflecting on her childhood, moving to a new place during her teenage years, and going through different relationships as she figures out who she truly is. She discusses fond memories of playing outdoors as a child, the trauma of witnessing family violence, adjusting to a new school in Cavite, feeling used by early friends there, and breaking up with three boyfriends for various reasons.

1. The Real
Me
By: Pauline Jane P. Rigodon
BSAB – 1A

2. Welcome to the story of my LIFE

3. INTRODUCTION:
The Real Me? I’d been thinking who I really am.
In this kind of world, In the kind of people you’re always
with, it’s not easy to stay for who you really are. And who
knows me best? I don’t know. No one can tell who am I,
what I believe in, what makes me cry at night, what I
dream to be and what kind of person I really want to be.
So maybe, I should be the person to tell you my life story.

4. Way Back My Childhood
My Childhood days are really fun. When I was a kid, I
really love to play, who doesn’t? I’m not the type of kid who
will sit in the side and play a Barbie doll. I don’t find it fun just
to sit and comb her hair and all that. I’m an outdoor kid and I
love to play the kind of game that boys usually play. Running
all the day, playing hide and seek. I even play marbles and a
little anime cards they call “teks”. There was a time before that
I will swim in the nearby river with my friends, some thing my
Mom and I used to disagree.
But even in my early age, I already know that life can
be hard, and sometimes cruel. Once, I’ve seen how my brother
fight with my sister. For some reasons I’m too young to
understand.

5. But like what a normal mother should do, she come
between them and tried to stop them from fighting. But she got
hit and it scares me. I grew up remembering that traumatic
encounter. I’d been afraid that there’s always someone out
there who will just hurt me and no one who will protect me. So I
always have this fear I cannot overcome.
The Changing Environment
When I reached 15 years old, our family decided to
move to Cavite and my parents sold our house here in Bicol. I
was young and maybe I have no right to refuse. And I have this
hope that this will be our new start. It wasn’t easy to adjust and
meet new people since I grew up in one particular place.

7. As I learn
Since we moved to Cavite, I was transferred into a new
school. I studied in General Emilio Aguinaldo National High
School in Imus, Cavite when I was in my junior year and until I
finished secondary.
At first, it wasn’t easy for me to interact to other people
in school. They are Caviteños and I was a Bicolana and I find it
too hard to understand them. But still, I had few friends. As days
went by, I felt like I was used. They asked me to do some of their
paper works and it became their habit to just copy my
Assignment. At first, I’m not complaining. But surely, I realized I
wasn’t really a friend for them. And I’m glad eventually that
soon enough, I found my true friend.

8. My Teenage Relationships
(not to mention their names)
Boyfriend #1:
We were about to reach 2 years of our relationship when I
decided to broke up with him because he find someone new.
Boyfriend #2:
He was also my long-time boyfriend but we broke up
because he don’t want me to leave Bicol (My family’s moving to
Cavite)
Boyfriend #3:
We broke up because he choose to continue his C.A.T and
unfortunately go back to his ex.

10. Trivias
(Few things about me)