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Dear Spring,

Hello! How is it going? MyEC friends are talking about you, Luci seems irritated when she tackled you’re just around the corner, Batu did mention you too, and Miss Rose became poetic just by thinking of you. What’s the fuss with you? Actually, I’m puzzled but I found their letters intriguing and interesting. Know what, I haven’t met you if not mistaken. Though I’m wondering how you look like, how can you touch my life and what are your hues, is it yellow, green, red, or blue? I’m curious if I can feel addicted to you, and if I will ask for more. Will I hate when you leave me and miss your presence gradually? That I don’t know. But I want to know the answers. How? Again, I don’t know.

All along I thought you are only another form of water, if that so, we’ve got a lot of you back home. Btw, just to inform you, I met Sunny and Rainy, I love both of them. My European friends has so many things to envy when Sunny or Summer comes, not to brag our 7,107 islands, we’ve got El Nido Palawan and mind you, snorkeling is the best past time there as we got the best coral reefs (for me), but officially it’s one of the best in the world heritage and wonders. We have Baguio, our Summer capital – have you heard Banawe Rice Terraces, it’s there! Not to mention you can pick the strawberry fresh and eat there at the same time, oooppps, just go an hour north you’ll see how spooky is hanging coffins of Sagada. Do you know Halu-halo? Ice-Candy? Ice-scramble? Mais-con-yelo? Banana-con-yelo? Gosh!!! Someone’s missing half of their lives without this..kidding! Unfortunately, when Summer came it denotes WORK, SUMMER is WORK for me, vacation means WORK. But still, I can’t prevent myself loving the blue sky, the clouds, and the smell of grasses, the chirping birds, the noisy bugs, our Mango, Starapple, Soursop, Santol, and Alatiris that are residing with us.

Rainy is freaking wild back there, we are experiencing almost 30 typhoons for 4-5 months only, and it means classes are suspended!! Yahoo!!! It’s more fun in the Philippines because most of the areas are in knee length murky flood, stay at home became more special as my Father cooks for us and I’m sitting near him and keep on asking so many things…when I will go back to my motherland, I want Rainy to be there because I know Father doesn’t have to work, I need to add that my four siblings will be around for me to poke at, that’s fun!

Still, I want to meet you, yes, I’m content with what I have but if there’s a chance I want to meet you, your beauty, your ambiance, your smell, and your colors.

But now, I should suffice myself reading their writings about you and imagine. That’s all I can do.

Sincerely,

Risty