I WAS JUST LAYING HERE REMINISCING..HOW MY CHILDHOOD BACK IN SAIPAN WITH MY GRANDMA..AND SAW THE DELACRUZ PASTRY(APIGIGI) IN SUSUPE..AS A LITTLE GIRL ME AND MY GRANDMA,WOULD WALK TO SUSUPE TO MY AUNTIE MARIA HOUSE,TO EITHER HELP WITH THE PREP OF THE APIGIGI AND VISIT MY AUNTIE MARIAS MOM WHICH IT WAS MY GRANDMAS BROTHER..WELL MY GREAT ANN WAS SICK AND PARALYZED AND COULDNT TALK OR MOVE..BUT EVERYTIME IM THERE I WOULD SPEND HOURS TALKING TO HER,AND IF NOT TALKING TO HER IM ASK TO MASSAGE MY ELDERLY AUNTS AND UNCLE FROM HARD WORK FROM COOKING THE APIGIGI,AND IT SEEMS ME AND GRANDMA WERE ALWAYS THERE AND SHE WOULD DI HER HEALING STUFF OR JUST VISITING,WELL YEARS GO BY,THE ELDERLY OR MY AUNTIE MARIA WOULD ASK MY GRANDMA FOR PERMISSION IF THEY CAN A MESSAGE FROM ME CUZ I GUESS IT. WAS EFFECTIVE FOR AND LIKE IT,I WOULD DO THEIR FEET,SHOULDER,HANDS,HEAD AND SOME I WOULD STEP ON THEIR BACK...BUT THEY ALWAYS COMPLIMENT HOW GOOD I WAS..ANYHOW ONE DAY ME AND MY GRANDMA WAS OVER THERE ONE DAY BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL GONNA LISTEN TO A SONG THAT WAS JUST RELEASE IN THE ISLANDS .AND IT WAS A STORY OF THE CASTRO FAMILY SURVIVING THE VOLCANO THAT EXPLODED IN THE ISLAND OF PAGAN RIGHT NEXT TO SAIPAN WELL,SOME DIED AND SOME OF MY CASTRO FAMILY MADE IT AND SWAM TO SAIPAN,SOME WERE CRITICALLY BURN,LIKE MY COUNSIN JEFFREY..IT WAS MY GRANDMAS BROTHER KIDS FROM THE SAN ANTHONIO VILLAGE IN SAIPAN..ANYWAY WE WERE AT MY AUNTIE MARIAS HOUSE IN SUSUPE AND THEY WERE ALL EXICTED ABOUT THE SONG ABOUT OUR CASTRO FAMILY SURVIVING IT..THE SONG WAS SO LOUD,THAT I TRY SCREAMING BUT NO HEARD ME AND IT SEEMS THE SONG WAS SO LONG BECAUSE MY GREAT AUNT JUST SAID GOOD BYE TO AND SO I HELD HER HANDS AND SHE HELD MY TIDELY BEFORE PASSING ON AND I WAS TERRIFIED AND CRYING FINALLY THE SONG WAS OVER THEY ALL HEARD CRYING IN THE BACK ROOM,THEY ALL RAN IN AND SAW ME NEXT TO MY GREAT AUNT HOLDING HER HANDS..THEN GRANDMA CAME OVER AND COMFORT ME...IT SEEMS LIKE I WAS ALWAYS AROUND ELDERS IN SAIPAN BECAUSE MY GRANDMA TOOK ME EVERY WHERE AND SHE WOULD FOR ME TO COME HOME FOR SCHOOL,SHE NEVER LEFT ME ALONE,I SLEPT WITH HER EVEN BEFORE I LEFT SAIPAN..IF IM NOT WITH GRANDMA I WAS WITH SISTER REMEDIO,SHE WAS LIKE MOTHER THERESA IN OUR ISLAND..WELL I WOULD GO OVER TO THEIR HOUSE WITH OTHER NUNS IN CHALAN KANOA AND HELP THEM WITH GARDENING OR WHATEVER WORK THEY NEED,AND I REMEMBER SHE WOULD MAKE ME SOME HOMEMADE LEMON AIDE,VERY YUMMY..THESE WHEN FOR YEARS AND SHE WOULD TELL ME ABOUT GOD,HER STORY BEING A NUN AND TO ALWAYS RESPECT OUR ELDERS..SHE WAS LIKE A TEACHER FOR ME..AND ONE DAY I RAN TO HER CRYING THAT IM LEAVING SAIPAN TO COME TO THE STATE AND I TOLD I DIDNT WANT TO GO AND PLUS LEAVE MY GRANDMA BEHIND..SHE SAW AND MY RELATIONSHIP WITH MY GRANDMA AND SHE COMFORT ME AND SHE TRY TO LOOK FOR ME IN CHALAN KANOA BUT I WAS AT MY AUNTIE RAMI HOUSE IN SAN JOSE VILLAGE BUY SHE FOUND OUT THE DAY I WAS LEAVING..HER AND COUPLE OF NUNS THAT TOOK ME UNDER THE WINGS..KINDA BEG AND TRY TO TALK TO MY MOM AND UNCLE TO LEAVE ME HERE WITH THEM BUT IT DIDNT WORK SO SISTER REMIDIO PUT A NECKLACE OF ST. FRANCES AND GAVE ME SOME OTHER NECKLACE..AND TOLD ME TO CONTINUE PRAYING AND GAVE HER A HUG AND DIDNT WANT TO LET GO OF HER..THIS IS WHAT THE ELDERS BACK HOME IN SAIPAN HAD AN IMPACT IN MY CHILDHOOD UP BRING AND KNOW ALL OF THEM ARE WATCHING OVER ME STILL TODAY....I MISS MY GRANDMA,AND ALL MY AUNTS AND UNCLE AND GRANDPA..
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 06:25:30 +0000
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