About Paul's Life, Sex and Dreams - is a series of his personal experiences. So far, I already have finished writing part eight and I am about to start writing part nine, ten and more. This is open for your critiques (positive or negative feedback are all welcome). On this story - I wanted to prove something that on writing an auto biography or a biography - the author should become familiar about the Life, Sex and Dreams of that person.
37 years ago, Paul has visualized becoming an accountant and a writer. He knew his parents could not afford to send him to school to finish those courses he had wished for. However, he did not give up dreaming. In 1976, he was about sixteen year old and had just finished his elementary; he decided to leave his parents.
Contrary to the will of his parents, Paul still had left them and lived the way he could have to. He said that living away from his family was not easy and productive. He had slept under pine trees robustly standing around their town plaza. He had used some old scrap cardboard and old newspapers as his gasket and bedding. Sometimes, he had slept on the height of the tower of their town church. Other times inside the waiting shades and fish market along with other deserted children. He had become immune from the mosquitoes bites, salty smells and the freezing darkness.
There were nights he was weeping, remembering his family but the homesickness for them did not change his decision. He made friendship with those children who were also at his age. He mingled with them like one family with the same fate. Thus, it became easier for him to be with them. The fish market was their source of living: Lifting of goods from market vendors in exchange of some money to be divided equally among themselves were exciting and memorable experiences for them.
Until Paul worked with a construction group, located in front of Felipe Abrigo National Memorial School of Arts and Trades (FANMSAT) now known the Southern Samar National School of Arts and Trades (SSNSAT) in the town of Guiuan, Eastern Samar. At first he felt intense pain on his body, prickly fingers and feet but despite heavy and hard works he was happy to receive the 15 pesos for a day’s work.
There were nights he was anxious. He could not sleep in the barracks due to chronic fatigue and pains. He wept and I wanted to go home but the advent of the future surpassed what he felt – especially when day time came he was watching hundreds of young students entering the school gate, he pretended he was one of them carrying books and notebooks. And the difficulty and fatigue from hard works eventually disappeared.
Six months later, the constructions of the five units of apartments were done. Paul and other construction workers have moved to another project which was a three-story building owned by a Chinese businessman. But before leaving the place, Paul stood up in front of FANMCAT with his promise that he shall return to study high school.
If you were still interested to read the other parts About Paul's Life, Sex and Dreams - below are summaries and links going to the website that published them:
Paul was sixteen year old when he finished and received his Grade School Certificate, from Mayana Elementary School, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, Philippines in 1976. Then he started his high school in 1977 as self-supporting student and received his Secondary School Certificate from Southern Samar School of Arts and Trades, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, Philippines during the school year 1980-1981. Following that year, Paul took up One Year in Bachelor of Science in Industrial Education from Southern Samar School of Arts and Trades, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, Philippines. Read More: School and Marriage
In 1994, Paul again had dreamed to go abroad. He was lucky though because he did not experience much difficulty in acquiring an overseas job. His uncle-in-law who at that time was a chief accountant of the company Kawasaki Helicopter Saudi Arabia – Finance Department helped him get his current job by recommending him to the administrator of the company. A Philippine based recruitment agency, FB Allan processed his papers and he was able to go out of the country as a documented OFW. Read More: Travel Abroad
Paul believes that education and learning can be achieved anywhere and any time but it will depend on the person’s willingness to learn. It either by books and other reading materials, schools and a home study program. Paul was a product of a home study program. He started his creative writing course with The Writers Bureau in Manchester, London in 1999 by mail. Paul said that home study program is best for people who have no time to go school and who are busy working. Read More: Education by Mail
Paul is thousand miles away from his children. It is really hard for him to make available for his kids according to what John Gottman says, "Men must allow themselves to be aware of their feelings so they can empathize with their children. Then they must take whatever steps necessary to make themselves available to their kids." Read More: Children Obligation
Paul believes that sex education should be taught to young ones with values – needed to reduce premarital sex, early marriages and moral depravity. The youth should be trained to become responsible and morally upright citizens. Children and youths should be taught how to cultivate values and how to admire them. All these should be integrated with sex education – to help them appreciate the beauty of sex as a gift of God to mankind in the context of marriage not from what they discovered from pornographic magazines and video shows. Read More: Free Speech on Sex Education
As recorded on Paul’s journal, he said that it is vitally important too to learn the language of the host country – this is needed especially for immigrant workers when talking to people of that country who cannot speak English language. Read More: Learn Other Language
When Paul started his adventures on far away lands – some people found him as a dreamer. Others found him uncultured brute. His peers and friends described him as friendly animal and can kick you off when it is needed. But for Paul what the people were talking about him were just the downside of his true nature. Yes. Paul admitted that he sometimes acted as a wild beast. However, there were also people have admired him. Read More: Featured on Print and Online
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