ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 11 October) – Between me and Upi I think change in me proceeded at a much faster rate. Throughout my four years of high school in Cotabato City, the province itself was cal…
ILIGAN CITY – Between me and Upi I think change in me proceeded at a much faster rate. Throughout my four years of high school in Cotabato City, the province itself was called the Empire Province of Cotabato. In those days, Marist Brothers, all Americans, managed all Notre Dame Schools for boys in the province. My school was Notre Dame Boys Department, or “Boys” for short.
Social life with the other sex was next to nil. Even if we tried to write love letters to the girls in the Girls Dept, the Sisters would ambush the letters and embarrass the girls in front of their classes – as if it was their fault. The only time the two would mix was on Notre Dame Day. It was the girls who came to our school, not we going to theirs. The seniors were more privileged.
The road from the city to Upi was good, 39 kilometers of road, layered with limestone, the supply of which is plentiful even now. The ride was one hour, the bus hardly getting stuck in mud even during the rainy season. Sale of products was minimal to two or three middlemen in town, one Chinese Filipino, another Ilonggo. Selling products in the city was too much trouble so people would prefer the lower prices of the middlemen.
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