I love history, especially Philippine history. But it wasn't a love that took root and blossomed at school, with its emphasis on dates, names, places, and exams that asked me to "enumerate xyz." No. It was a love awakened at home by Ambeth Ocampo's wit and humor in “Rizal Without The Overcoat” when I was in high school. It was a fascination that grew with Sionil F. Jose’s … [Read more...]
5 Super Fun Ways to Learn about Magellan and Lapu-Lapu
You can say that Magellan and Lapu-Lapu called out to us and begged for us to learn about them. Though we were learning about explorers and explorations then, I didn’t realize that I could relate Philippine history to it until we came across Magellan and his death in our book called “Explorers News: Columbus in Japan!" I was still mulling about what our next topic would be … [Read more...]