After my graduation from high school, my father had to continue paying for my graduation suit by installment. It cost only two pesos ($10.00), but the pay of a laborer then was fifty centavos (₱.50) a day. Hence, my suit was worth 20 days’ labor. It took Father around one month to pay the installments […]
1994 Memoir – 24. Balikbayan in 1993
When I went as Balik Bayan in 1993 to Bangued during the Holy Week, there was a Class Reunion of the Colegio del Sagudo Corazon, New College of the Sacred Heart, High School which I attended. I was the only alumnus alive in my class who was there and, being the oldest alumnus, I was […]
1994 Memoir – 22. Fourth Year H.S.
When I returned to Bangued from Bayombong, Uncle gave me the bicycle. I was so happy and proud to own one and I used it to commute between Bangued and Palau, where I worked as Public Works laborer, using pick and shovel with a wheelbarrow to widen the road opposite the properties of Fina’s grandparents. […]
1994 Memoir – 21. Third Year H.S.
Tata Anton visited us during summer vacation and suggested to Father that I continue my studies in Bayombong Nueva Vizcaya, his new station as Commanding Officer, Philippine Constabulary. He even advanced my fare for Father to repay with sewed slippers I brought with me for his family. I rode a cargo truck from Bangued belonging […]
1994 Memoir – 20. Second Year H.S.
Mother died in May, 1932, before I enrolled as a second year high school student in June. Her death was also a death-blow to Father’s trade, because Mother did the buying and selling and transporting of the animal hides and leather, aside from sewing the uppers of the slippers Father sewed. I had to cook […]
1994 Memoir – 19. My High School Days
First Year High School I enrolled in the Abra High School as first year student with my cousin, Dolores Bravo. Manang Loling enrolled as a fourth year student. We went to school together, had our lunch together in a nearby house owned by the Barja family, a relative of ours. The road we traveled from […]
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