Women in my line: Education shaped the course of our lives
On the left is my Aunt Imelda who inspired this story while the woman on the right is my mother. Both turned 75 and 65 this year. Photo taken in Taoist Temple in Cebu City last year. I was so sure that my father's zest for education led me to my profession. Become a lawyer so that your signature turns expensive, he would say . But it turned out that I was only partly correct. I learned later on that my story also started from my maternal side through my aunt. My lola married my lolo, who was ten years her senior, at the age of fifteen. They begot her in 1941. Being the eldest to a stern uneducated farmer and a chinese-garter-playing teenager was a challenge. As parents, they were unorganized, dominant, and unreasonable. It was because they were uneducated . My Lolo finished just his Spanish alphabet equivalent to grade one while my Lola, her grade three. "Education in my family is a family history. It is worth retelling to a generation which neglects