Remembering Rizal

     José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda  was a Filipino nationalist and reformist. He is considered one of the national heroes of the Philippines. He is a patriot, physician and man of letters whose life and literary works were an inspiration to the Philippine nationalist movement.  

January 18, 2013, the date when we went to the Assumption Antipolo to watch a stage play entitled “Christine Bellen’s Batang Rizal”. I still remember our journey towards stage play. Our journey started at our school, around 11:30 am, we all gathered at our classroom and went to our designated Jeepney, in our jeepney that composed of the entire girl in St. Thomas, Renghie, and our school librarian, Ma’am Andales.




In our way to assumption, we just listened to the music to burn down our boredom. In assumption, we wait for few minutes to enter the theatre, while waiting we just eat, talk, and talk. After some few minutes Ma’am Flormata call our attention and guided us in their place to unite all St. Thomas. To lose again our boredom, Zaira and the rest of the gang beat some green leaf, I don’t know what exactly it’s name but as far as I remembered they called it chicharo. And after few minutes, one staff guided us to enter the theatre.




When we are on the theatre, we just sit back, relax and enjoy the show. But I don’t know if my seatmate watching the show or watching her crush, she keep on yelling like there is no one else around but kidding aside. We watch the show the show is all about Pepito, a young boy from the future opens a magical book that becomes a magical portal to the past and future. In his journey, he comes face-to-face with another young lad, Pepe aka Jose Rizal and finds himself exploring colonial Calamba. He takes Pepe to the future and they journey into an exciting series of events that reveal the truth about heroes, love and friendship. Over all we enjoy the show. After the show we go back to our designated jeepney and went back to school, and went to our home with a smile on our face. And that’s our journey ends.