If I could back to the past and meet heroes of the Philippines it is a pleasure to meet them. I am going to grab the chance to meet Andres Bonifacio. I like Jose Rizal because he is our National hero but they said Andres Bonifacio is also a hero.
Me: Good Morning Sir!
Andres Bonifacio: Hello
Me: I am Aliah Nicole P. Diño, I can say that I am a fan of yours because of your bravery and courage.
Andres Bonifacio: Oh I see, thank you very much. By the way am I your favorite hero?
Me: No, I mean I do not have a favorite hero, because a hero is a hero that protect all of the people. For me hero are all the same even though you have different skills. But for the Filipinos mind I think you are a "Class B hero"
Andres Bonifacio: Class B hero? But why only letter B? Why not letter A? They don't like me?
Me: Because they think that you are a support from Dr. Jose Rizal but for me you are one of a kind.
Andres Bonifacio: Am I a support for you?
Me: To be honest my answer is slight, after our National hero died, the KKK become stronger, braver and have a courage to defeat the invaders in our country.
Andres Bonifacio: Thank you for your honest answer. How did you know me in the first place? Is it because of your History subject?
Me: Ah yes, but the date of death, May 10 is my birthday, that is why and my grandmother likes the story of heroes and she tells story about heroes and you are one of them.
Andres Bonifacio: Thanks Aliah for the chance to meet you and I am happy that the Filipinos is proud of me.
Me: THANK YOU HEROES FOR SAVING OUR COUNTRY! Nice meeting you sir.
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A Kiss in Time by Alex Flinn (Summary)
This fairy tale retelling,his one a modernized take on Sleeping Beauty. Talia is a spoiled and bored princess who was old enough to understand what people said to her, has been told that she must avoid spindles, because of a spell placed on her during her christening. Talia doesn't actually know what a spindle is, as all such things have been banned from the country, but on her sixteenth birthday, as she is wandering through the palace trying on dresses to find the perfect one for her birthday ball, and she finds an old lady who lets her play with her interesting spinning device - and just like that, Talia and the entire kingdom of Euphrasia (right next to Belgium) fall asleep and the country disappears off the map.
Three hundred years later, spoiled and bored American teenager Jack is on a three week, all-expenses paid tour of Europe. Of course, he doesn't actually appreciate how lucky this makes him, and mainly wants to go back home. He and his friend escape from the scheduled tour and when looking for a beach, fight their way through the thick hedge surrounding Euphrasia, and find the royal palace instead. Jack finds the sleeping princess, and is struck with the overwhelming urge to kiss her, even though in real life, this would be a massively creepy and inappropriate thing to do. His kiss wakes Talia, and as the spell specified that only true love's kiss could wake her, Talia deduces that the oddly dressed gentleman must be her true love, whether he wants to be or not.
The rest of the kingdom also wake up, and Talia's parents are not exactly happy, realizing that their kingdom is 300 years behind the times. They blame Talia, who is understandably a bit put out, as the spell was clearly inescapable, and she would have had an easier time avoiding spindles in the first place if she'd actually been shown what one looked like. She forces Jack to take her with him, and soon they are on their way back to the US. Jack wants to bring. Talia mainly to piss off his parents, who he feels do not care for him and are never there for him, and Talia just wants to see the world, after having been extremely sheltered for the first sixteen years of her life.
Both the protagonists start out as quite unlikeable, spoiled and self-centered, but over the course of the story, they force each other to view the world in different ways. Jack introduces Talia to modern technology, airplanes, cell phones and hot dogs, while Talia, from a time where modern technology couldn't effectively make it perfectly possible to get through life without actually ever talking to anyone else, shows Jack that by listening to the people around him, and maybe talking to them instead of shutting them out, he may learn something, and possibly sort out some of the things that have frustrated and annoyed him.
This story is taken from a book named A kiss in time by Alex Flinn. Thanks to Raiza for letting me borrow her book.
Three hundred years later, spoiled and bored American teenager Jack is on a three week, all-expenses paid tour of Europe. Of course, he doesn't actually appreciate how lucky this makes him, and mainly wants to go back home. He and his friend escape from the scheduled tour and when looking for a beach, fight their way through the thick hedge surrounding Euphrasia, and find the royal palace instead. Jack finds the sleeping princess, and is struck with the overwhelming urge to kiss her, even though in real life, this would be a massively creepy and inappropriate thing to do. His kiss wakes Talia, and as the spell specified that only true love's kiss could wake her, Talia deduces that the oddly dressed gentleman must be her true love, whether he wants to be or not.
The rest of the kingdom also wake up, and Talia's parents are not exactly happy, realizing that their kingdom is 300 years behind the times. They blame Talia, who is understandably a bit put out, as the spell was clearly inescapable, and she would have had an easier time avoiding spindles in the first place if she'd actually been shown what one looked like. She forces Jack to take her with him, and soon they are on their way back to the US. Jack wants to bring. Talia mainly to piss off his parents, who he feels do not care for him and are never there for him, and Talia just wants to see the world, after having been extremely sheltered for the first sixteen years of her life.
Both the protagonists start out as quite unlikeable, spoiled and self-centered, but over the course of the story, they force each other to view the world in different ways. Jack introduces Talia to modern technology, airplanes, cell phones and hot dogs, while Talia, from a time where modern technology couldn't effectively make it perfectly possible to get through life without actually ever talking to anyone else, shows Jack that by listening to the people around him, and maybe talking to them instead of shutting them out, he may learn something, and possibly sort out some of the things that have frustrated and annoyed him.
This story is taken from a book named A kiss in time by Alex Flinn. Thanks to Raiza for letting me borrow her book.
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