Visayas

I will begin my journey in a little town in the Visayas, in the Panay Island.  Yes, where the famous Boracay is located.  It is a little quiant town, a place where everyone knew anyone.  A place where you can see a big bell on the church of St.Therese of Avila.  A place where I spend 8 yrs. of my childhood years, in the small elementary school near our small dwelling, in the church where I learned to pray and learn that there is God and in the plaza where I soent most of my memorable growing up days.

I love this town.  This is the only town that exists in my life.  This is a peaceful town, where my childhood friends are, La, Tan and Ru.  This is the town where I live with my 3 sisters, my mom, grandparents and spinster aunt.  These are the people that will shape my childhood years.

I used to watch many TV shows in our small black and white television.  This is my grandma's TV and as a child, I thought it was ours.  I never knew back then what we are.  In my eyes as a child, I am blessed.  We have beautiful sunday dresses, we eat good food and we have a TV.  We even have presents from our Aunts, Uncles and Grandpa on my mother side.  We visit them on weekends or whenever we want to.  They love us and showered us with love and everything that we want.  Everything is perfect on this little town.  We would go to church every sunday, we will be ecstatic when my papa will come home from a trip, we would play on Tan's and La's place.  We would go to school in our neat dresses, and 5 cents money, buy some small junk foods or banana cue and we would come home excited for the next day.


On weekends or trip to my mom's hometown in Pilar, we would be very excited.  My grandpa's house is very big in Pilar, they live near the ocean and they have 2 big dogs.  We would go to the beach barefoot, with the dogs and with our aunts and uncles.  This is paradise for me, my first glimpse to it.