ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF SPEECH DELIVERED IN SAMARNON BY LOUDETTE AVELINO
ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF SPEECH DELIVERED IN SAMARNON BY LOUDETTE AVELINO, ON AVELINO DAY, AUGUST 5, 2014 At this event, notebooks, pencils and books were distributed to the poorest grade school students in Basud, Trinidad, Carmen and Calbayog East (this was delivered originally in Samarnon) Updated 7/28/17 Good Morning to you all….good morning children! Good morning teachers!... (addressing the children) What date is it today?. (response) August 5! What day is it today? (response)Tuesday! But you don’t have any classes? Why don’t you have any classes today when today is Tuesday? (children respond) Because it is a holiday! What holiday? (the children did not respond; they seemed confused, until the teachers prompted them) (response) August 5 is Avelino Day! A long, long time ago, a child was born here in Calbayog on August 5. Calbayog was not yet a city; it was a municipality. When this child was very young, perhaps your ag...
