This post is picture less, a challenge for students to visualize the scene and have them create the picture. I ask Ms. Collins to scan the pictures students create. I will give prizes to those who most accurately portray the scene. Deadline for turning in drawings is Jan. 12. Ms. Collins, perhaps you can post students' drawings for Parade of Nations display. Good luck, students!
Monday, Jan. 5, 2015
Ate Diday, Ate Tessie, and I left for Paete, Laguna about 8:19 am. We rode Tito Ramon's blue tricycle with a black top. With us are the statues of the Sacred Heart and the Baby Jesus. These statues are 65 years old and I'm taking them to Paete, a town famous for making statues. My mother had written a letter asking me to have the statues repaired and enthroned in the new house.
We traveled on winding and narrow streets. We passed several small stalls that people had set up in front of their homes. Some stalls sold coconut, others sold watermelon. Still others had bananas still in the stalk. Many sold combinations of these fruit along with sweet potatoes and casava.
We passed by many small towns where we saw stores that sold hammocks made of rattan, a kind of vine. Other stores sold furniture: tables, wicker chairs, benches, etc.
As we traveled, there were times when we were up on a hill and we could clearly see the boats on Laguna Lake. The lake from this view was beautiful, still as glass. I was cooled just looking at the water.
When we were in the valley, we saw rice fields newly green with young plants. There were plots that the farmer, walking behind his carabao, is just tilling the land. We also saw pineapple and corn growing on the hillsides.
Every where I looked, the primary color was green: all kinds of green. Coconut trees, banana plants, mango trees, jackfruit trees. Being in the tropics with its humidity and almost daily rain brings forth all kinds of vegetation.
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