Hello everyone! Hope everything is gonna be fine. Here I am today to show my life in the province.
Because I grew up here as the daughter of a farmer, I adapted to the life we have here, simple and quiet.
Look at the picture, Before and After you can see the difference, it really looks like a forest around my parents' house. This picture was taken in 1998, my mom said I was only 1 year old and they built this house slowly.. Before she worked as a Warehouse Manager, she filed for maternity leave because she had given birth to my sister. With this money she got, she built a house and with the additional wages they saved to build this house.
Because that was when materials were cheap, he even said that a sack of cement was only 40 pesos. It wasn't straight away, but it gradually ended and we settled here. My mother was still a young woman, she was a farmer because my grandparents were also farmers, the type who wanted to make a better life, she left here at the age of 15. She also helped her siblings for a few years so that they could study. At the age of 28, my mother got married and this is where she met my father. They just worked together.
Soo back to reality. Many years have passed and many things have changed. Like we now have electricity, before we didn't really have any, we just used lamps. They also put a little basketball court here for us to have some fun, my children now have volleyball practice. All our children play here every weekend because it's spacious, that's why they love it here.
And now I think 3 years ago we also have wifi, not just ours, we pay for wifi to use it at our neighbor's house. Because until now there is absolutely no Data signal here, we can't text and call if we only use a sim card. And until now I only wish there was a water line for us, because we only fetch water.
I'm just taking pictures around me, it's really beautiful that the nature around me still exists even though there are houses. There are cars and motorbikes but only a few. What you will always see here is a lot of corn, banana, coconut, vegetables and others. The people here are used to these kinds of foods, I said that even I rarely eat meat, There are chickens here that are raised but more importantly here we sell them so that we can buy groceries. Native chicken is sold for 300 per kilo.
Living in this place, is just a strategy, a lot of hard work is done so people here don't have any problems, products from plants are sold and bartered for something. Promise If you work hard to plant, you will reap a lot. And that's all for today everyone. Have a great day!