Techinically I wasn't born there, but my mom sent me there because of business. So I had to live with my grandparents for about...the first four and a half years of my life. lol
There was a lot of pros and benefits in the Philippines. Like the fact that I was rich there! WHEE!~~
So I got whatever I wanted. School is a bit more advanced there and I exceled greatly. Went to a lot of awards ceremonies (and winning some in each), I was friends with a lot of my neighbors (but that justs adds on to the fact that I'll only have a greatly to close relationships with people that are older than me :bored
, I had crazy fun like balancing on the edge of a balcony and riding to my heart's content on a mad runaway jeepney my aunt took control over (and it was my grandfather's too), and my family told me that I once kicked some girl off of the stage for not reciting a poem properly (I knew because I was always helping out the teachers). So I got up there, yelled and scolded her for not doing it right, shooed her away, took her place, did her performance perfectly, and won her award. I got all of what was supposed to be her credit when I was only supposed to be there as part of the audience. I wonder how her parents felt. Oh well, sucks for them
But there was something really bad that made up for all of those. It was great there and all but at the same time very strict. I could have a better future than this right now if I hadn't been used as a scapegoat for everybody and then belted and spanked a lot for my 'misbehaving' and 'not taught enough discipline'. Even one of the maids of my cousin living nearby, who I always played together with, always kept glaring at me and kept scolding me for whatever I did. Good or bad. My cousin did some faults too. Worse than mine. So how come he wasn't getting any punishment? It pained me, the fact that I never knew why my grandfather always did that to me and always wondered, 'What did I ever do to deserve this?' In 6th grade, my sister told me the answer to that question.
And now I'm so vunerable to teasing a lot due to how I've been influenced by all of that back then. Looking back, I have very mixed feelings as to whether or not that I should have appreciated my childhood.