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The Calbangan Road Project

Calbangan is a compound along the street. Literally Calbangan is a place surrounded by water. Our compound where siblings and their grandchildren is the real Calbangan, in front is a seemingly clean creek, and at the back are rice fields but in between is a creek also. These two creeks came from one source, seperated and enclosed Calbangan and then rejoined basically it’s like an island. Everyone on this small island is a relative, second cousins are the most distant relatives who lives here

But this entry is not all about Calbangan. Two weeks before Feb. 15 the plan to at least rehabilitate the road along Calbangan was thought about. Sabi ko, graduate na ako, propesyonal na, but still this road has not change. The road along our place is half cemented half dirt. Pero and sementadong daan ay may lubak-lubak pa rin. So, I planned to fill in the potholes all through out. After asking my parents' advice to how I am going to do this, inviting mga tambay na mga kaibigan to join me on this, and looking for a near perfect soil for longer effects, okay na ang lahat. It was planned for the Valentine’s Day, but moved to Sunday, Feb. 15.

Informing Local officials about our plan, we were good to commence. We pushed our 7-footer cart mountain ward to get pebble-soil in the river bank. I already asked permission on officials on that place so that we could get soil on their river. Good thing they were pleased because we have the same road from our homes to the town proper. I have six people helping me out together two of them are my brothers. As we are working on streets four more helped and told me how come they were not informed. It was fun, but helpful. At the end of the project is of course a little merienda. It was a very tiring day! Knowing that I slept at 4 am on that day and had only 4 hours of sleep because I have to go to church to cleanse my spirit and to clear my mind.

Pero umulan ng sobrang lakas kinagabihan at kinakabahan ako baka nasira na ng ulan ang mga lupa na tinambak namin. I kept my prayers and fortunately the next day, the rain did not destroy our work but it even helped because it compressed the soil in to firmness. and driving isn't too rough anymore.hehe