June has always been an exciting and a farewell month for children. They get excited to get new bags, notebooks, pencils, crayons and the typical baon for snacks and lunch. They jump for joy to meet the teachers and classmates unseen for two months.
Farewell. The playmates you see everyday will be left behind. They will soon be part of vacation memories. Hours of play will vanish into thin air,replaced by long hours of diligent study. How time flies. Classes start to roll again. Burning of midnight oils will flourish for the next nine months.
If my memory will not fail me, June spells some rituals for us. I don't see how it is related to doing good or flunk in school. My mother, when classes start, have me and my brothers eat nilugaw using a pencil as spoon, with boiled egg. Our agony prolonged doing it sitting on a book. The ritual was really weird.
Probably, my mother inherited such ritual from our ancestors and for any reason be handed down to her grandchildren. Yes, we didn't flunk in school,got good grades and several awards.Was it because of the ritual?
There different rituals in different regions. Here, we are not aloud to eat squash or sweet potatoe para hindi mangalabasa o mangamote hehe
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