rui: first honor in first grading

[allaboutrui] yesterday, august 21, we dressed up rui in a filipino get-up of white kamisa de chino, red silk pants and scarf and all [me, lolo toy and lola chi] accompanied him to his school around 9am to celebrate linggo ng wika and pinning of ribbons to honor students…good thing it’s a holiday to commemorate ninoy aquino’s death anniversary…anyway, we were late for about 10 minutes and since the place is a little bit small, it was already jam-packed with students and their families so we had to slowly push our way in. I let rui sit down on a chair allotted for students and in a while, they were called on the mini-stage to sing ‘ako’y isang pinoy’… as expected, he refused to go and participate despite his continuous singing of that song at home and participating in their 2-day practice…good thing his teacher, ms daisy, was there to support him and was able to get him on stage but did not participate in the singing portion…after a while, bert arrived with the ‘bilao’ of pancit palabok as our share in the potluck…he was just in time for the pinning of ribbons for the honor students and I asked him to be the one to pin the 1st honor ribbon to rui and I’ll be the photographer [sister letty took over the hosting during the honor students in rui’s class and she was telling the audience ‘ah eto magaling talaga ito kaso tamad magsulat eh ano rui so practice ha’] hehe..after the awarding ceremony, it was ‘eating time’ but I wasn’t able to eat my share, I was already feeling sick by this time because of the heat and the crowd so we went home right after they have eaten…congrats rui for a job well done! So proud of you son… “,)