ONDOY SUPER TYPHOON ;)

It was a rainy morning of September 27, 2010. I was preparing to go to school for my 9am class, I was finished taking a bath and eating my breakfast. I’m having some qualms in going to school because it’s raining very hard. Media Networks announced that class will be canceled; frankly speaking, I was totally relieved to know that news. I went out to take a bath (storm); I’m with my little brother. I went to my friend’s house, and invite him in the rain. I was surprised that the water level is reaching almost the gate of our house and some one shouted “hala baha na pati sa loob ng bahay namin”. I rushed to our house to check, I was shocked that, the water got inside our house. I hurried to get all the things to a safer place. I texted my mom to go home already because I’m having worries that the flood will go up and up. Hours passed, the rain didn’t stop, me, my brother and Cess took all the appliances and furniture up on the bed to prevent from being wet. It’s almost 12 in the midnight but nor my mom and dad was not there yet. My phone was dead, surroundings were full of water, I’m in cold due to the flood and unfortunately we didn’t cook food that night because the gas range was soaking in the flood. Time passed, I decided to get my brother and Cess in a safer place. We arrange all the things, move and organized everything, we waited on our Double-Deck bed until we got asleep. When we woke up, my mom rushed to us crying and asking if were ok and are we hurt. She was shocked that almost half our belonging were wet. She was thankful also because we were there even though we gone to a lot of struggles and we were safe.

That situation changes my life and perspective. I leaned to cherish every moment of my life; I learned to appreciate every little thing existing in this Earth. I appreciate more the air I breathe, the food I shared with my love ones and especially I appreciate the fact that life is really full of surprises, as Forest Gump said “life is like a box of chocolate you can never know what’s inside it”