This is me

I'm back in Tacloban City and not quite ready for my fourth year in college. I still have to take a removal exam in one subject I had last sem wherein out of the 30 students in the class, only five got a numerical grade and the rest had an INC (short for incomplete). I was somehow expecting that for my grade but not for all 25 of us. Well, what can I say? Misery loves company. Knowing that I wasn't the only one having a hard time is kinda comforting. So now, we have to take the removal exam on June 4 (I hope you include us in your prayers). We can still enroll, though, by applying for a waiver. 

Summer hasn't ended yet, but I'm already back in Tacloban City. By the way, I'm from Tandag City, Surigao del Sur. Pretty far, huh? Well, I'd like to explain but it's quite a long story. 

Or maybe not. 

I'm here to pursue a degree in BS in Accountancy. UPVTC (University of the Philippines in the Visayas Tacloban College) is the nearest campus of the University of the Philippines which offers this course and since my mother's friends (the Abarca twins) went to this college and topped the CPA board exam (top 1 and top 12), they suggested I go to the same college. Feel the pressure?

I didn't like it here at first. There are just so many cockroaches and rats. People don't speak softly (sorry Taclobanons but it's true) and I didn't know how to speak Waray Waray then. But I learned to live with it. I've got friends now and a mosquito net aroung my bed to protect me from the cockroaches (the rats aren't as troublesome as the cockroaches). Ngan makarit na ak mag-Waray Waray (char) nayakan hira diri sabot it akon accent. Oh diba?

GrandPaPaternity

 Awesome surprise party for my 18th birthday 

made possible by Mama, Mau, YFCs and GrandPaPaternity

My bed

It's only been a day since I got here and I'm already homesick. I miss the comforts of my home and these pretty ladies. 

 Mau (sister) and Alma (mother)

Pretty, aren't they?

This is me with my beloved grandmother 

(Mama Menen)

I come from a broken family. It's been broken for almost 3 years now. But I'm trying my best to be a living example of children from broken homes. I want to show the world that

despite this brokenness, we can be whole

We can live without bitterness because we know how to forgive

We can live our teenage life without being rebellious

And we can grow closer and closer to God as He lifts us up from this brokenness

Well, I think that's it for now. I just thought you ought to know something about me.