October 18th, 2009 Like most Filipinos I was born into the Catholic faith. We were taught to believe that if we committed a mortal sin, our soul would rot in hell. The picture we had of hell was of a place I would not like my soul to go to. My friends would say, “It’s all fire! Very [...]
October 12th, 2009 It was gardening time. My girlfriends and I, were busy doing the garden plot, joking and laughing, when suddenly the boys were making jokes about the garden plot we had made. It was zigzag instead of a square plot. We could not straighten it up no matter how much we tried. It looked really funny [...]
October 11th, 2009 We were only two sisters then, so we had all the love and attention from my parents. My mother was a dressmaker and made us beautiful clothes. She looked after us very well and made sure that we went to the school clean and smart. I was often called in front of the class to [...]
October 11th, 2009 It doesn’t seem so long ago, I was still at primary school, I can still hear the voices and sweet laughter of the children, and the sound of their footsteps rushing down the stairs out to the playground. I remember the smiling freckled faces of my young friends, and the tight surly faces of my [...]
