My Place Turned Into Community Beach
Posted by Belle on 08 Dec 2007 at 09:55 pm | Tagged as: Catanduanes
The winners of the recent baranggay election in our village held a blow-out party in my little beach. It looks like half of the village attended the event. It doesn’t take much to please these people. Simple food such as rice and fish and veggies suit them well. It is because that’s all they can afford. They live on a day to day basis.
But, look at how happy these kids are.
My husband is amazed at how much rice they can eat. I told him that is how people survive in the province by filling up on what they have most and less on other things. Somehow, they pull through. I am a living example. But now, I can only eat a small portion of what is considered a regular serving for them.
It looks like they run out of ulam.
Happy and well-fed.
The boy wearing a blue shirt is my nephew, who lives with his parents in this place to care for the property. He must have been tired of ocean water, reason why he is the only one who is dry.
Even the grow-ups join the craze.
The little girl on the right has quite a resemblance of myself when I was her age.
Despite of the black sand, this place is our favorite because the water is nice and calm and doesn’t have huge rocks to hurt our feet. It doesn’t have the waves crashing against the shore. Also, this place seems to be gaining land as opposed to the other place in the northern part of Catanduanes which is being swallowed by the seawater at the rate of 3 millimeters a year. Quite an alarming phenomenon! In fact, they already lost a street, 12 houses, and now building their seawall as the first two seawalls had been gorged by the ocean already. I hope there is something that can be done to save this town from being wiped out in the map. You can read all about it here.
They sure likes they have lots of fun!
I was amazed when I saw the clip from i-witness featuring our Island. My brother’s music band was even there at the time. If you saw the 2nd part where a guy was interviewed kung mallabo daa so mga gamit, that was my cousin, hahaha. That half-kano kid is indeed a BICOLANO.
Meron palang blog si Howie Severino. I am not familiar with the priest and never been to Bagamanoc, pero imagine si Howie nag-bike lang from Virac to there?
Belle, ibahon mo man ako dyan sa inyo pag nagparibod kita. I want to explore Catanduanes. Ung gayun baga sato maski arog sana ka-an.
miss ko na beach at simpleng buhay
They look so happy! I have no wonder about the Philippines being ranked as some of the happiest people on earth.
simple life…reminds me of my days in the beach too hehe yung mga pictures namin noon ganyan na ganyan din hehe
kakatuwa
Ang galing! Isn’t it wonderful to have this kind of life? Gusto ko maranasan ng kids ko ang ganito, even for a summer. You know, forget about computers, city life and just have good and simple clean fun
Oo nga Belle, the girl could have been your daughter if you didn’t marry an American.
Nice, feel good photos. I guess you make a lot of your kababayan happy when you visit home.
dodong, they surely know how to have fun.
K, somehow after watching the links you gave me, i stumbled on his site. i brush elbow with half kano kid when i go home. boy, he is fluent with puraran bikol, talo pa ako. gusto mo, let’s go home at the time.
tutubi, i crave for simple life, too, and can’t wait for my next trip to the Phil.
pinayhekmi, you are right, filipinos are among the happiest people on earth.
verns, wasn’t it fun? you should retrieve some of your photos on the beach and make a story about it in your blog.
julie, i think it is good for the kid to enjoy the simpler things in life, away from the hassle and bustle of city life.
anna, my husband thinks the same thing..hehe. well, you can’t say no to your kababayans, di ba?
So much fun!!! I am green with envy!!!
I always brag about our beaches back home where the water is warm, not like here in the US… cold!!!