Day 5. Just as I come here with mixed feelings, I leave this place with mixed feelings too.
I feel genuinely happy for the opportunity to do these things here in the province:
1. Visit Lola's grave for the first time
2. See Lolo's grave set up beside Lola's, and get touched by it
3. Enjoy my grandparents' home
4. Eat literally everything bawal -- lobsters, bagoong, pusit, fishes... seafoods that cause me allergies
5. Bond with my cousin, titos, and titas
6. Set my foot to places I've never been to
7. Feel the gush of ocean air and rub sand in between my toes
8. Look for stones (panghilod) and shells by the seashore
9. Have an unplanned, fun visita iglesia (after Easter. hahah!)
10. Reflect, enjoy, mourn, pray.
And I feel sad too, because it's time for me to go back to the real world, where there are work, stress, problems, disappointments, failures...
But of course, I know I can't be in "vacation mode" forever. And as I go back, I get to enjoy again the internet, the television, the tubig Nawasa (oh yessssssss, how I long for tubig Nawasa), the office (I frequently think about what they are doing in the office while I am away), and the company of my family and friends.
I will miss you, Agkawayan. I will miss this home. I will miss the dishes. I will miss the sea. I will miss the people. And I will miss this roof.
Bon voyage.
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