Ang Bagyong Ondoy sa Aking Buhay(translated)
Undoy, the storm and my life
It was Saturday morning and I was dressing up to go to the church for the soup kitchen . I was part of their Bible study class . It was starting to rain quite hard and my siblings and I did not proceed anymore. By ten am, my family and I were starting to get scared because the water was rising swiftly .
One by one, my Mama gathered us and we hurried to this school, in Liberato Damian. The first night we were here, we had a hard time adjusting – so many different kinds of people, noisy and troublesome. I could not sleep so what I really want to happen is for everything to normalize. I wish the flood waters would subside so that we can go home, go to school and go back to our life.
This is my Ondoy experience
My name is Jaime de Venecia of 6-3. There are three siblings in the family and we are all studying here at Liberato Damian where we are temporarily housed due to Ondoy.
I really wish the flood waters would subside so that our house will not be totally destroyed. You see, this is made of flimsy material – just stuff that my Papa asked for from his boss at the construction. It was wood and stuff just patched up together , this is how we got to have a house. If the house gets destroyed all the way, then we will no longer have a home.
When the flood waters go down I really want to go back to school already but I can’t also go back because I don’t have school things and clothes which we were unable to save in the rush to save ourselves from the onrushing flood waters.
My big dream is to graduate from school so that I can helpmy parents and siblings . I can see my father having a very hard time, his body is not as strong. My ambition is to have a really great job, even as a janitor so that his work will not need to be so hard. He and my mother are so hardworking and they really take very good care of us, especially our schooling so we will not end up like them, uneducated, without a nice home.
But still I am grateful that we are together as a family even if we are poor and lacking all the necessities in life.
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