I didn’t experience any kind of expensive place to travel with, we’re not wealthy family but my family can provide a celebration every year like we are one in Christmas vacation, swimming beach and pools and traveling provinces with my big whole families. I’m so happy with it even we did not experience the island hooping and travelling in different countries in the world . My best travel that I couldn’t forget was in Bohol, Chocolate Hills when I was 12 years old. I didn’t mistake that time I and my sister we’re staying in my Aunt’s house in Bohol I can’t remembered the city of that place with his old man husband named Gerry Mcleroy I forget the spelling of his last name he is from U.S.A but now they were divorced. My aunt has a neighbor and also an American guy and that was her friend.

They planned to travel in that place. After we ready our stuff we get our self in the yellow jeep and starting traveling far from the board house. I don’t any have an idea were we went. We arrived the place by 12 noon and it is straving time for Filipinos. It was so surprising and I didn’t expect that we were going to travel in Chocolate Hills. We’re stoping the entrance of the place. There was so clean and the weather is also hot because it was sunny days. I’m so excite to get inside and my mind didn’t have any idea to see the tarsier. I can still remember we walking up to the stairs just to see the beautiful image of brown and green of the hills. And my four Aunts are so unmanageable that time to saw thw beautiful view of Chocolate Hills and it was so perfect to see that sunset touches the hills and was my perfect day of my Summer Vacation

We forget to eat some lunch because my aunties are busy taking pictures with the hills, I’m about to annoyed that time because of then. They have so many pictures with the Chocolate hills while I and my sister looking at them. I can’t remembered how many pictures that I have with the hills. I saw the wishing well of the place. The well with the bells that are hang, you can wish there everytime you want and the place haave also many visitors. Until tiredness visiting us, then we getting down to stairs. After we get in the Jeep we take some lunch by 2pm in chicken restaurant or “pongko pongko” far from the Chocolate Hills place. Even in that time I’m too young, I still remember the beautiful view of the Hills, the place is so relaxing and the green trees and plants are stress-free, but now the place of the hills are new. Now they have the terrace so that everyone can across to see the view and eveyone can stand comfortably and no hussle unlike we visited last it was so rocky road that time because the year past the Bohol was hitted the strong earthquake by 2013 and the infrastructure are now new. Unlike we got ther and is simple. Bohol was my favorite place to visit again after I have a stable job. I will never forget the relaxing place of Bohol and no can erase it. My travel of Bohol was one of my unforgettable travel in my years. I want to back there. I travel so many place but Bohol, Chocolate Hills was the best more than I traveled in Seas and Provinces.

a poem by Abigail A. Cruz 12-CDB

dear God, thank you for the blessings that

you given to me everyday

Without you, I can’t breathe

not here to live

It is better to walk in the dark with you than

to walk in the light alone

Because of your power , I am strong

And can’t live without you.

Forgive me to those mistakes that I’ve done

the sins that you always keeping me remind

not to entered it

By your words, i remain inspired

by your blessings, you give me strenght

and by your love, you loveme like

I’m the one who living in this world.

the end..

The Autobiography of Abigail Cruz 12-CDB

Abigail Acop Cruz is my name. My mother name me from the Bible. According to the Bible. Abigail was a kind woman .Abigail was the wife of King David in the Hebrew Bible ,
intelligent, beautiful, loyal woman. 

I am the girl who was born in Cebu City on August 5 year 2000 as a first daughter of for children. My father’s name is Juanito Gula Cruz he is a production worker. My mother’s name is Janel Acop Cruz also she is a great production worker, they both worked in Mepz 3, My mother came from Oprra part of Cebu City and my father grown up came from Manila, Bulacan. They met in the place in Pusok , Matumbo and here I am the first child. We were living here in Calawisan Lapu Lapu City. We are not wealthy, were jus living in Comfortable haven with complete members of family. Event if we’re not wealthy, we are rich smile, health and faith in God. The moment that you did not know what to do. Expect the unexpected, your out of yourself, in short you’re not thinking in good way. “Irresponsible kang bataa ka!” This is the line when my mother getting mad about when I’m not with my mind and when she gets mad of my little siblings. I’ve always been snorted by them especially this kind of scenario. Sometimes I am a jerk and it is also made me hurt when I am guilty. It’s naturally that our mother doing the is because of our major jerk. And this is one of my weakness when i get scolded because of hard headedness. “Mura kag dili babaye da!” when my mom scolded in front of me I’m just laughing at her back because that’s me. It makes me also mad but several times has passed. It is funny to hear now for me. I’m a kind of woman who loves boy stuff some girls are hates sweat. I like that when I do a hard training. Some girls are like to wear girly stuff and that is not me. My mom knows that. My gesture is already like a man. I don’t know why I’m doing this since I was a kid. I like doing this and I can say that I am a cool kid. I love playing basketball instead playing of Chinese Garter. I’m so conservative when it comes to my body. Some other girls wants to wear short dress but me I love wearing pajamas and men’s styles shorts and t-shirts. my mom wanted to bought me some showy dresses and I don’t like it. We’re arguing because of that. I hate it to wear girls stuff and that’s the truth. I was getting insecure for those men who had handsome faces but now I’m contented of what I have been now. I don’t know why, because perhaps I wanted to be a man? But honestly I’m proud of my gender. I’m a homosexual person. I don’t have a girlfriend since I’m getting eighteen years old. But I have many crushes and first love. I’m a boyish woman and not interested of having a relationship. I’m just curious about the relationship between men and women,and not planning to have a husband into the near future. My hobby is dancing any kind of genre but most is I especially dancing KPOP or can be called a Korean popular musics because I was influenced by my friend named Andrea when I was Grade 7. I’m in love with their talents and beauties. I love raeding comics, novel and magazines but it depends on how my mood follow me. I read first a story in EBOOK. I also wrote fictional stories. I decided to write a story and put it on wattpad when I get my own laptop. I’m writing not because who wants to he popular in crowd I jis want to express my imagination and I have a wild imagination and still I’m practicing my English grammar so that foreigners can read also my stories for future. I also wants to watch different movies. Most of all I really love dancing and listening to the musics. My father influences me his dance move because he is a hiphop dancer and I’m his biggest fan. One of my dream is I want to travel the whole worl with my family and adventuring the different tourist spots around the world.

I want to share my remembering story of my life. I started to study my pre school in Cebu until I became grade school and I was transfered in Lapu-Lapu City due to separation with my grandmother’s house.I finished my elementary level in Ibo Elementary School and I was enrolled in that school in my 3rd grade until I reach my sixth grade. On my Junior years. I was also transfer from Pusok National High School to Babag High School in my 9th grade. I’m under the class of Ms. Leticia Agnes an English Major teacher in Babag NHS and now our Creative Nonfiction teacher. I was transfered because our last place where we live was been demolished by the workers of the owner fans were living near to Industrial factory company of MEPZA and the place was to construct another new buildings for new businesses. We leave our lovely house and search for another rented house. We have no rights to stay long in that place because the owner of the land had the permits. Now I’m a Senior High School student studying the General Academic Strand or what we called GAS STRAND. I completing my 12th Grade in Babag NHS. My worst experience in my life my unforgettable experience in my whole life. I woke up by 4pm in a good time. No stress on that time because it was a good vacation days. I’m the one left in the house because my mother and father had a work by weekdays then my little siblings left me alone the house and out of the town. I don’t any have any ideas what the environment’s going. I work my assign task inside. After organizing my bed place I’m coming to the kitchen to cook some rice for our dinner because the worker of our house will be arrive by 7pm. We do living here in our house by opening the door as always near in he kitchen which is our main door. I slowly open our door to have a light inside our dark kitchen cause we don’t have an electricity. When you expect the unexpected. Nothing happened outside, then 10 seconds passed, I saw my neighbor and this man is a drug-addict. In my observations of this man, his a kind person he help his family then I met him and having a dark side of himself. He was running through to our door like a super hero named Flash. He was ruuning to me, I automatically detach the chain and I do closed our door but I failed to lock it because he slammed our weak wooden door. He want to went inside to our kitchen. ” Pasudla sa ko Gail ! ” He said that he want to went inside with a trembling voice. When he was running towards to me i don’t expected that he went to my way. When he is inside he automatically reach our stairs and hide his self to our second floor as our private room. I get mad because it was a trespassing but because of my nervous I went blank mind. I assumed that I can lock him outside my house but failed. I saw his bare hands blocking inside the frame edge of the door and he pushes the door like his own house. I’m too weak that time because of my nervousness. Until I give up, I let him inside to our two storey house. On that time I was out or my mind. I just let him inside because of I’m trembling, my mind says ” what if he hold up me?, He gonna rape me?” if I did not let him inside. I don’t know what’s the consequences. He hide himself in our private room. I really don’t know what was happening outside. After he entered, I saw the police officer following the way of our little village, the officer dressed a civilian passing near to our house and that was my mind saying “TOKHANG?! NAAY TOKHANG?!” The drug user was raid on that time and Jamestre his realname was a drug dealer until now. I didn’t hear any warning shots in our place this is why he ran too fast and went inside our ooened house, and i regret it, why I opened our house.The police still finding then until several minutes the cops was already spread and gone to our village. Without knowing he jumped into our window that the only lock is the strap of a backpack. He escape out our window and ruined our rusty roof. He ruined my day plus he ruined our rusty roof and I’m hooked up. I’m gonna cry that time but I control myself not to. He run towards the roof like a running arena until he jumped away and he was gone out of my sight. He added my problems, I’m trembling again not because of him that he went away. It is because he made a big whole for our roof. It added my mother’s problem. The roof is ruined and I think mother will be mad at me because of cowardness. And yes when my mom arrived she is so upset. When rainy days come, our house will be in the ocean. Floods wilk come over inside our kitchen and this is one of a major problem in our house. After that incedent my mother wants him to be punished of what he have done. She also get angry of that drug addict man. My lesson learned on that time was I will never be again a “TANGA” or a idiot person. This kind of Scenario is unacceptable he will be punished if he wii do that again but the good side was he never got touches me he was not minding me that time perhaps. I should be always aware anytime because this place is a hotspot of many bad guys and this place Calawisan was so many relatives and everybody is connected together. This time, I still enhancing my skills, especially my reading and creating skills. I hope everything that I wanted to do will achieve. I still don’t know what I want to be honestly I don’t want to be a teacher. My choise is I want to be a Professional photographer, I want to be a cop, a air force or a aircraft maintenance but that courses is too expensive, mother hates to hold a guns because of their religion. She is a Jehovah’s witnesses. They always told me that being a teacher is a good profession and also it is a lifetime work , you can leave whenever you want. In our family I surrounded by a Professional Teacher. My grandmother in my father’s side was graduated BS Elementary Education from Gregorio Araneta University Foundation in Victoneta Park Malabon Metro Manila. I know the place because grandmama had a year book were they are all graduated in the same year. My father’s sister is also a professor in Cebu Normal University. That is why they wanted me to become a teacher as a representative of my mother’s side. In my mother’s side also graduated a license teacher in Cebu Technological University. I want to become like them if I had no choice. I want to be a successful in my life. I don’t like teaching. I have no choice, they’re my family they can give me all I want in one condition, they want me to become a Teacher.

I am the one who has a very big dream. I’m always keep on dreaming. One of my biggest dream is to be a actress someday but I don’t expect that I will be like them. Sometime laziness always trying to destroy my spirit in studying but to be honest I’m doing it rare when it comes to studying. “Studying is not my style” that is my motto when it laziness strikes. When I was a kid my mother always try m to read the books and I always keep on crying because I don’t want to read and I’m shy to read in front of her. I can’t answer her questions because of dullness on that time. I know that people don’t study is a bad habbit but I’m trying my best to keep in practising to study everytime. One of my weaknesses is I’m not a kind of oeroswho has a confidence, I am shy when I talk or report in front of my classmates especially speaking in English language. When my name is called I get out of my self and I feel dumband pressure. I will enrich my confidence because this time my mom wanted me to become a Teacher. my family is my inspiration because it’s gives me strenght, a lot of advices to face my fears, to fight struggles in life and gives my spirit to look and go straight. they always made me realize my dreams. I can do this I’m a positive thinker. I can get this through doing studying and have a passion of what I do. I love my family there are my soirit they never left me when I was born in this world, they cared about me until I grew up like this and I’m with family and my whole life. Thanks to God yhat he give me this kind of family and uneded blessings.

Abigail Acop Cruz is my name. My mother name me from the Bible. According to the Bible. Abigail was a kind woman. I am the girl who was born in Cebu City on August 5 year 2000 as a first daughter of for children. My father’s name is Juanito Gula Cruz he is a production worker

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton