Checking in: 4 years later

Sending out a holler and a heller from the South, this time, from South Carolina, USA. More to come, and hopefully, it won't take another 1,461 days. :)

Cory and the color of Hope

I remember how excitedly my parents roused me and my brother from sleep in the wee hours of the morning, made us wear our cleanest yellow shirts, our jackets and our slippers. They did not bother with our pajamas: we had to be on the streets NOW!

It was only when we were seated inside my uncle's passenger jeepney that I learned what was going on: Ferdinand Marcos had fled the country, and Cory Aquino was the new president of the Philippines. At this news my brother and I immediately waved our yellow-and-green pennants at every passerby. "Cory! Cory!" we chanted. Pedestrians waved back, cars tooted their horns in tune, the color yellow was everywhere. Hope had come to the Philippines.


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The Characters of Adelaide International House

It occurred to me I haven’t introduced our housemates to everyone! Adelaide International House, the hostel where we live, is a temporary home to mostly Asians. A majority are Chinese, there are some Indians, a Japanese woman, a couple of Africans, and a lone Australian.

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Updates from Adelaide

Hello Everyone!

This is volume two of the Adelaide Adventures. Another month has come and gone, and things are settling down for me. I'm getting into the rhythm of the winter days, when the sun sets before five thirty in the afternoon and doesn't show up til 7.30 am the next morning.

Come to think of it, the sun gets more "sleep" than we do! That is, Benc and I.

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