In less than 36 hours, Jennilyn is coming. I am anxious of her coming home to me. She who has not known me personally, and I who haven't met her personally, too. Funny we only get to know each other through my mother, but I decided to accept her in my home and to send her to school, God willing, to study in college.
Crazy idea, isn't it? While others would love that they do not send anyone to school, I accepted my mother's challenge of taking care of Jennilyn and most especially to help her get a college diploma.
Who is Jennilyn anyway? And why is she coming over in less than 36 hours from now? Read on.
Jennilyn, as far as I know, is in her early 20's now. Yesterday, she got her high school diploma. If not because of my mother's soft heart for her, she could have gone to her graduation ceremony alone. Why? Because Jennilyn seems to be living alone. She lost both of her parents -her mother when she was around pre-school and her father some four years ago. She studied ina "barriotic" place all by herself, though she lives with her paternal grandparents who don't seem to care about getting or giving good education to Jennilyn.
My mother recounted to me that Jennilyn was sobbing when she was receiving her high school diploma. For whatever reason, only she knows. As far as I know, while studying in a barrio highschool, she worked in grocery store every weekend. In that work, she's paid roughly 80 pesos per day and that money she used for her studies. When I learned of this story, my heart beat for her. It was like love at first sight for me. Why? Because her story I can so well relate. I was once like her except for the fact that I had both of my parents alive and were morally supporting me in my studies.
When my mother told her about this opportunity to come to Manila to study, she was so hopeful more than excited. She looks forward to the chance for her to get a college degree and give herself a better future, a better life.
With God's grace, deep in my heart I know there is an opportunity for her. I am anxious but I know. I just know. I am very positive and I declare that Jennilyn will be able to study come June and get her college diploma after four years!
Crazy idea, isn't it? While others would love that they do not send anyone to school, I accepted my mother's challenge of taking care of Jennilyn and most especially to help her get a college diploma.
Who is Jennilyn anyway? And why is she coming over in less than 36 hours from now? Read on.
Jennilyn, as far as I know, is in her early 20's now. Yesterday, she got her high school diploma. If not because of my mother's soft heart for her, she could have gone to her graduation ceremony alone. Why? Because Jennilyn seems to be living alone. She lost both of her parents -her mother when she was around pre-school and her father some four years ago. She studied ina "barriotic" place all by herself, though she lives with her paternal grandparents who don't seem to care about getting or giving good education to Jennilyn.
My mother recounted to me that Jennilyn was sobbing when she was receiving her high school diploma. For whatever reason, only she knows. As far as I know, while studying in a barrio highschool, she worked in grocery store every weekend. In that work, she's paid roughly 80 pesos per day and that money she used for her studies. When I learned of this story, my heart beat for her. It was like love at first sight for me. Why? Because her story I can so well relate. I was once like her except for the fact that I had both of my parents alive and were morally supporting me in my studies.
When my mother told her about this opportunity to come to Manila to study, she was so hopeful more than excited. She looks forward to the chance for her to get a college degree and give herself a better future, a better life.
With God's grace, deep in my heart I know there is an opportunity for her. I am anxious but I know. I just know. I am very positive and I declare that Jennilyn will be able to study come June and get her college diploma after four years!
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