Quick Peek at my World

This is an original article I wrote and submitted to The Philippine Daily Inquirer Young Blood Section. It was published last September 11, 2003 on the Anniversary of the 9/11 attack in the US. I decided to reprint this in my blogs so that I can get more audience and more people will realize the plight of our public school students. School for Survivors (From Philippine Daily Inquirer) Byline: Clerissa M. Carritero THINGS will never be the same again. Gone are the days when I can buy spaghetti for P5, pull off tricks without paying for them, run inside the class while the teacher is writing on the board and put on an innocent look whenever I do some naughty things. Now that I am 23, I can only look back at the happiest times of my life, meaning almost all the things I experienced during my high-school years.  Ever since I graduated, I have missed the things that I usually dreaded during those years. Gone are the homework and the assignments and the teachers from hell. But a...

It’s always nice to spend a little time with family Last Sunday, February 10, my family and I went to Tagaytay for a much needed R and R. It was planned for 3 days, quite short to be honest. I was apprehensive about going because payday was a long way off and I have only 3k in my wallet. But because my feet are itching and I really want to go somewhere nice, I agreed to go. A day before I bought 4kls of chicken, 4kls of Hotdog and 36 hamburger sets. My Auntie Lee also prepared 3kls of Pork Adobo, Half a tray of salted egg, 1 kl of tomatoes, 1 kl Ripe Mangoes, ½ kilo Dragon Seeds and a lot of tsitsirya for our trip. A lot huh? But then again, my family likes eating… 5:00AM The food is prepared; my bags are packed; my 3 boys, my husband and I are ready and we are just waiting for the rest of my family to arrive. We agreed to meet at my house at 5:30 AM. At 5:15AM, my mom, my sister Melissa and her daughter Shelly, my sister Cristina and her son KC, and my brother Von arri...