In my spare time I like to read, listen to music and sing Visayan songs.
I live in a simple but comfortable house built of bamboo and other native woods. Such a house is usually called "nipa house". Our house is built in the island's interior and it is completely enveloped by natural setting of which the palm trees are dominant. My family also uses wood fuel for cooking, which is done by burning wood right under cooking utensils in a fireplace like enclosure. It is a traditional way of cooking for centuries and it is still the most inexpensive method used throughout my country. When you travel at dinner time you can smell the aroma of wood smoke and food being cooked. Our main food staple is rice, fish, chicken, vegetables, and fruit.
I was born with a birth defect of deformed feet that need corrective surgery. My feet are twisted inwards and almost inverted up side down. This condition causes me to walk with a very noticeable limp. There are some people who are trying to arrange for surgery in USA. I am very grateful to compassionate people of America, my country, and the rest of the World, and I appreciate very much anyone's help in this matter because my family can not afford the needed operation. I hope that some day in the future my feet will get fixed and I will be able to enjoy normal life. My first dance will belong to that person who will help make my dream happen.
My family makes a living by producing copra for sale to industry. Copra is the meat peeled out of coconut shells after the coconut ripens. At harvest the coconuts are knocked down from tall coconut trees and split by a blow with machete. The coconut meat is then peeled out and dried out on sun or in a special dryers during rainy season. This dried coconut meat is called "copra" and it is sold to food industry for the production of coconut oil and other coconut related appetizer products. The income from copra harvest is insufficient for my family survival, therefore, my mother works away from Camotes islands. I miss my mother very much when she is away at her work.
I don't own a computer, hence it takes a little longer to contact me
because I have to go through various sources to access computer. Our house
also doesn't have telephone nor fax machine.
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