By Mario Esteb
About me, a very young girl from Buenasirca dream, big as I carried a 5 gallon pail of water on my head or a basin full of clothes washed from the river, I thought to myself, this is not the life I like to live.
I’m getting out of this place.
I left for the U.S on June 6th 1970, with $100 in my pocket. No job, no families to go to.
I sent back $50 of the $100 to my family. Then all of a sudden, I thought about everything I left behind. I felt very sad and homesick. There wasn’t anybody to talk to. I looked outside, and there wasn’t a soul out there. I sat down and cried my heart out.
Z is…
- 78 years old
- Female
- Straight
- Filipino
- Upper Middle Class
- Catholic