Mother's Day Character Description

This week, we had to make a character description for the significant female in our life, I chose to wrote about my mum. I found it hard using the 'show not tell' in our paragraphs. I found it easy sorting the sentences into the right paragraphs, and I found it fun using Tagalog words for some sentences instead of English.

WALT: 

• Write a Character description
• Use ‘show not tell’ in our writing

My mother has dark brown eyes that shines like a star, medium-length hair with light brown highlights, a round face, soft angled eyebrows, long eyelashes, button nose, and thin, pink lips. But most of all, she has a great heart that warms everyone’s soul, and she has a smile that brightens up our day.

“A mother is your first friend, your best friend, and your forever friend.” She’s my friend starting from the beginning, she was always there for me, especially when my dad was about to give me a ‘palo’ (smack in Tagalog) whenever I did something stupid. She always listens to my problems (and jokes) even though it’s ‘walang kwenta’ (even though ‘it doesn’t make sense’ for her) and to be honest, she doesn’t give the best advices; “Just ignore them” or even sometimes, she’d say “You’ll be fine” - but at least she tries to comfort us.

Sometimes the way my mum acts affects how we act. If she’s grumpy (like when she is when she gets back from work), to be honest we turn grumpy too. But as long as she’s happy, we’re delighted. If she tells us to do something in a grumpy voice, we act grumpily, and she would ask us in a bad-tempered tone “Why are you grumpy? I’m supposed to be the grumpy one here because of how you two behave!” Well yes, sometimes it is our fault why she’s grumpy (When we don’t do what we’re told to) so it’s not her to blame.

My mum is very organized, her perfumes are in a shelf, as well as her stuff that she puts on her face (facial creams, facial creams, and more facial creams), because of that, she doesn’t like it when we’re messy. If she sees stuff lying on the floor, expect her to yell at you, and mind you, if you don’t do what she says within a minute she’ll throw your stuff in the laundry (used or not used) or in the bin, and she’d lecture you about leaving your things unattended.

I don’t feel bad at all (Just joking, I do) when she does all the ‘gawaing bahay’ (chores) while my dad, me and my brother are being “helpful” people (not.) “Anak! Can you please help me do this?” says my mum and we reply with “Wait lang Ma!” (Just Wait, mum!) until she gets annoyed with it and she’d warn us that she’s gonna take our gadgets away from us if we don’t get in the ‘kusina’ (kitchen) in a minute.”

Happy Mother’s Day to the woman who carried me physically for 9 months, and for 12 years financially. Without you, I wouldn't have wrote this

- Love, your daughter,
  Angie