Every student
of Cavite National Science High School is required to speak in English. I think
the reason for having this rule is to teach us, the students to communicate and
to develop our self-confidence every time we are encountering different people.
But, how about our native tongue, the Filipino language? Many people are
questioning, why do we need to speak in English if it is not our original
language? There are many opinions about this matter. Try to look on its positive
side and you will know its importance.
Everyday in our
school, we must speak in English or else we will have deductions in our grades.
Since I was in first year in Cavite National Science High School we are
required to do so. But in my first and second year life this rule was not
followed seriously but now that I am in third year high school, our teacher in
English had a rule that for every Filipino word that we will say is equivalent
to 1 minus. At first, it was hard for me to follow. Every day I have more than
20 tallies. But when the time passes by, I was able to speak in English
fluently. But there will be an instance that I am committing wrong grammars.
I prefer to use
our native tongue, the Filipino language because it was our language since we
are born. But I am not telling that I don’t like to use English language.
Nowadays, many people do not believe in ghosts, spirits and
etc. What will you do if you are in the shoes of the people who are
encountering such creatures? What do you think, why those spirits are roaming
in our world? Do they need help or they cannot accept that they are already
gone in their loved ones? Many questions that need answers.
“Joyce, I let your friends to join your vacation so that
you will not be bored in Baguio. But you should take good care of them.” “Yes
mom!” *The doorbell rung.* “It seems that your friends are already here.”
Susanna told Joyce. “Mom wait I will open the door!” Joyce exclaimed. She went
to the main door to open and her Mother, Susanna followed her. “Hello Joyce!
Good Morning Tita!” Gem greeted them happily. Gem entered the house. “Joyce!
Where are they?” Gem asked Joyce. “They told me that they are in the gate of
the subdivision.” Joyce replied. After few minutes, the seven friends of Joyce
and Gem arrived. “What are you waiting for? Let’s go!” They rode in the van of
Joyce. Being the eldest, Joey drove the van. It was 3:00 am that day when they
left Manila. Everyone slept except Joey because he is the driver. He felt
asleep but he is stopping that feeling of sleepiness. Aaron noticed it. “Hey
dude, do you want me to drive. You are sleepy. We can stop there and change our
positions.” Aaron said. “Are you sure?” Joey replied. “Yes!” Aaron said. They
stopped and all of them woke up. “Hey where are we?” Gem asked. “We are not yet
in our destination.” Joey said “Then why we did we stop?” Adrian asked. “I and
Joey will just change in position.” Aaron replied. “Where are we?” Mel asked.
Joey looked around. “We are here in Baguio city. Do you want to eat? We can go to
a restaurant first.” Joey said. “I agree with that!” Sam said. They went to a
restaurant. “May I get your order Ma’am, Sir?” waiter said. “Just give us one
whole blueberry cheesecake.” Joey said. After 15 minutes of waiting the waiter
sliced the parfait into nine. After eating they
pay the bill and continue their trip. After two hours they arrived in an uncouth place. They saw a huge, old and creepy house.
“We are already here.” Joyce vociferated.” They
saw an old woman. They went down to the car and talked to the old woman.
According to her she is Manang Ising, the caretaker of the house. She joined us
in entering the house. “This place is so creepy!” Cindy said. Joyce became shy
when she heard that and Gem saw the reaction of Joyce that’s why she stopped
Cindy. The old woman baked cookies for their snacks. After eating they put
their things on their rooms. The five boys shared in a room also the four
girls. When the night came, after eating dinner. “Guys, do you want to
play?”Joey asked and the he showed an
Ouija board. “Where did you get that?” Joyce asked nervously. “I got this from
the cabinet in our room.”Joey said. “I
want to play that.” Josh said. All of them agreed except for Joyce. “Joyce,
let’s try it.” Cindy said. “You don’t understand the consequences after playing
that. You can disturb those spirits.” Joyce said and she ran to the room of the
girls. She prayed for her friends not to be in danger. After sometime, she
didn’t notice that she fell asleep. She had a nightmare. In her nightmare:
“She saw an old woman at the backyard of their house. She
also noticed an epitaph. Joyce was in the back
if the old woman. She went nearer to the old woman. When she touched the
shoulder of the old woman, she was shocked because of the face of the old
woman. She closed her eyes and felt that the old woman is standing in front of
her. The mouth of the old woman opened and she smelled it like a dead rat. She
cannot shout nor run. The old woman said. “Leave my house or else no one can
get out of this alive.” At that time she was able to shout.
She
opened her eyes and found herself in her bed. She is like a person who took a
bath on her own sweat. She went out of her room and look for her friends but
she cannot find them. She started calling their names. But the lights went off.
She continued to walk and call for her friends’ names. She stepped on a wood
and she fell down in a very dark place. That time she remembered she had her
iPhone in her pocket. She gets it and uses the flashlight. She was shocked on
what she saw. In that room, she saw an old-fashioned design of a room. The
arrangement of the room is like in Spanish times. She saw an old chandelier and
the one who caught her attention is a vacuous
box. The name “Anastacia” is familiar to her. When she touched it, she
visualizes an old scene.
“A
man and a woman had a tryst for them to see each other on midnight so that they
can go far away from their families. But they did not see the father of the
woman who is listening to them. In the house of the woman, after eating dinner,
the father brought the woman on the house of the man who they want their
daughter to be marry with. The father and some of his workers went to the place
where the man and the woman will see each other. After a while the man came. He
was shocked because he saw the father of the woman. They killed the man and
threw in the river. The day after that night, an assemblage of people were
looking at the man without life. The woman heard about that news and went
there. She was shoked of what she saw. Her boyfriend was dead. She cannot
accept it. She ran to their backyard and killed herself with a knife.”
Joyce
woke up. She is still in that place. She had a conclusion. That woman in her
dreams was her Lola Anastacia, the sister of the mother of my mother. She
rememberedher grandmother. The one that
her mother is talking about when Joyce was still child. She stood from sitting
on the floor and she saw a wraith of an old
woman crying. She went there and look who is that woman but when she arrived
there the apparition disappeared. She did not waste her time. She saw a stair
going up. She used that and looked for her friends. She went to the rooms of
her friends and she saw her friends sleeping. She was about to go back to her
room but an excessive force hit her head and she fell on the floor. When she
woke up, she found herself crying in their van with her friends. Her friends
are trying to appease her. She was confused.
“Where will we go?” she asked. “Duuuuuuuuuh!!! We will go in your ancestral
house in Baguio.” Cindy answered.
