Girl from Calbayog

I am a dreamer and will always be.

When I started to realize that there is a world out there I started to wander. I haven’t been to any place outside Calbayog City until I was eighteen.

“I am not scared to be lost, I am excited for the journey of finding my way home.”

So I patiently waited until I was eighteen hoping that I can save for travel, I am satisfied to see the world from the screen, I consider myself lucky when the first mall was opened with an escalator (actually it’s just a 2-floored building), I remember going there almost every weekend not for the stuff they sell but because of that escalator, wow.

It is such a common story, when a person will leave our town at an early age to find the things that our City can’t offer to everyone, enough opportunities. I wanted to leave so bad, but I didn’t. I have all the reasons to leave, but I want to make my own story and again save of course.

I wanted a degree, a university is waving at me.
I needed money for studies, diskarte is the key.
Some people might think that Calbayog is less, well nothing is less for people who want to succeed. We have to grab even the smallest of chance, every opportunity.

When I turned eighteen, this is it.
Just so I can experience what it’s like outside Calbayog even just for some time while I am still studying, I started volunteering where I needed nothing but myself. It was one of the best decisions I ever made. From escalator to elevator 😎

Alot happened. The best, better, good and the not so good.
I feel so blessed to have able to experience the things that I can only imagine before. How great is our God.
I still have a long way to go. The world still keeps on inspiring me, I have new dreams to chase and I will do whatever it takes just to live on that dream.