Saturday, July 25, 2009

Homecoming

Just one more sleep and I'll be back in the islands again. Counting my sleep is a habit I took after my kindergarten students when they're excited about something! ;) For sometime I've been praying, dreaming, wishing (cursing!) for good weather. Since 2-3 weeks ago I've been looking at weather forecast sites. Accuweather has a 15-day forecast and I've been following other sites too for any deviance. So far they seem consistent with their favorable forecast. Please God, grant us some Philippine sun even just for next week! And you can rain all you want after that! ...just kidding!

The weather wouldn't really matter to me if I was the only one coming home. But I'll be bringing my new Korean family as well. Yes, my husband (yup, we're legally married now but saying that takes some getting used to...with my friends I still refer to him as my
fafa or si lolo nyo!) his parents and sister.

It will be the first time for his father and sis so I want the vacation to be extra special. I want
aponim to brag about San Miguel beer and the seafood to his friends and agassi about Boracay and the shopping malls when she comes back to the university. As for omonim it will be her second time but she's only been to Manila before. So it will be her chance to go island hopping in the Visayas. As for yobo, he's just excited to meet my dysfunctional family for the first time hehe...

And yes...I'm so ecstatic to see my college friends in Iloilo again. One of my friends Yen will finally have her church wedding after 7 years and 2 kids. I remember attending her civil wedding in Manila City Hall just during her lunch break from work. Her husband is a seaman so they were rushing to wed just before his vacation ends.
L-R: RED, CHE, ANA, BOB, CHEL, ME, ANN, HELEN, YEN, DULC, SHARA
Here's a pic of us during our graduation in 2000. Yes, we're the Centennial Grads so we really worked our asses off just to get the bragging rights for that! In UP simply graduating in 4 years is already an accomplishment! Thanks to Richel for the Facebook tagging and pic upload.

6 comments:

Cher@SurvivingKorea said...

wow! enjoy your trip!

algol said...

hello!

so your hometown is Iloilo?
I stayed there from 1994 to 1998.
Very nice place! People are malambing and the food is to die for!

:::April::: said...

hi cher! thanks! we're leaving tonight. please help me pray for good weather! tnx!

algol - hi! my hometown is really bacolod but my mother is from iloilo. I stayed there when I was in college. did u work there before?

True, the food is really 'namit' hehe... and the people are always warm. hope you can come back!

wendy said...

hey, April. UP ka? i graduated 2007. about graduating after 4 years... hahaha so true. PolSci ni, day. i did it in 4 years. i was the only one in my batch. LOL. before me, Hans Sayno did it. that was a 7 years gap between me and him. wahaha.

will you be back on august 15? i hope you will be here. do tell me.

enjoy your vacation!

Anonymous said...

Wow congratulations wifey! Keep it strong. :)

wendy said...

ay, oo nga. i should have written 1997, instead of 2007. wishing i am younger siguro hahaha.