Wonder Hand Experience

Cynthia is the type of girl you usually hate, full of life, sunny smile and
just gives off positive vibes, nothing faze her, everybody can request
her for an errand and she would willingly do it with a spring on her
steps, she is everybodys pet especially with the teachers, Cynthia this,
and Cynthia that, it is as if the end of the world if she is not around,
even though her uniform is not new, her shoes is full of holes, her bag
is obviously from the ukay-ukay , she is not conscious at all or even
embarrass about it.
As early as six oclock you would see her at the school gate, she
comes to school on foot even if her house is twelve kilometer away, and
sometimes bringing with her a bayong full of vegetables, banana,
corn and sweet potatoes, in those days teacher would circled her and
noisily take turn in pepping inside, and nobody would left empty handed
,they would buy everything she would bring .
Did you buy all the vegetables in the market and sell these to our
teachers?, I once asked her.
No, she answered in her usual sunny attitude, These are all our
own produce from our backyard garden at home, it turned out that
when the school had an assembly meeting for the intensive
implementation of the Gulayan sa Paaralan Program. Her father started
planting their empty lot at the back of their house and cultivating it to a
garden.
After several months they peddle their own produce resulting to an
added income for the family and money for her, for school projects and
even for the Aflatoun savings that we students are oblige to deposit
weekly however small is the amount.
That is why our family is very thankful for the Department of
Education program, for it gives them an idea on how to have an
additional earnings for their family of nine.
Cynthia is still the girl that you like to hate for you cannot help but
admire her.