Fiesta in Carcar

During the summer of 2005 we went to Carcar a month before the Fiesta because my uncle had arrived from the shore I mean from the boat because he used to be a seaman. When we arrived in Carcar two weeks after that Ate Joanne had arrived from Davao. She was really very friendly and also a nice person. Infact she was really my aunt because she and my mother were cousins but she was still very young and she was still in second Year College during that time if I was not wrong. Actually it was my first time to see her because she used to live in Davao. It was always in every Fiesta to have a “Kalingawan” a week before the fiesta and if you are in Carcar expect a lot in their Kalingawan that it would be a good presentation. Like one night we saw a contest for all the Gays out there and you could really see that they have really prepared a lot for the pageant, but the pageant is not like those beauty pageants you see in the TV’s although they still have question and answer portion the contestants will also be in a game which is also part of the contest like one game they had. It states that they will be grouped and they have to form the highest tower so you could really see that one Gay was standing on the shoulder of the other. And it was really funny. Then another experience was the Dance Group contest. It was one of the Special and unforgettable contest because I have seen the cousin of my classmate and I really didn’t know that he was really my classmate’s cousin. It was not only wonderful because of the Kalingawans but also because of our bonding at that time. Actually I was never bored during those times because of my cousin’s there like Lyka, Kyle, Andre, and Van Allen, and of course my lolas/grandmothers and lolos/Grandfathers which are very young at heart. Well actually my grand parents in Carcar are dead but what is left for me is my Grandfather’s brothers and sisters and his mother. During the day of the fiesta my mother and I attended the procession. (I don’t really understand myself every time they will say that we are going somewhere else even if just in the other house because I am always happy when it comes to traveling.) So in other words I am very happy again because we were walking together with the crowd of people bringing candles and then we passed by to many houses and all the people of their houses were out there to watch the procession and there are many coconut husks burnt beside the street. After the procession we went back home. That fiesta served as a reunion for all of us because my aunt also arrived from Saudi and my grandfather’s brother had arrived form US. And there are many people in the house at that time. All of them were planning to go to the DISCO but I was not allowed to go there because the doctor had warned me to go to bed early. And when I woke up in the morning every body was still sleeping except me and my mother and father and when every body was awake they said that an accident happened in the DISCO because one person brought a knife and was planning to kill somebody there. So I my mother told me that God had saved us because we did not went there.