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the places i will go to..

From my hometown, Malasiqui, I have never gone farther than Baguio City, to the north, and Manila, to the south.

But here inside this explorer-mind of mine, I have gone to places thousands of miles away from home..

I can almost feel how cold it is in Alaska, how the penguins on the South Pole flap their wings that can’t carry them up to the sky, I know why the polar bears cant stay where the penguins are because, genetically, they feel the pull of the north pole.. I can almost see the ghost orchid, an apparition on the branches of pond apple trees.. I have met the Apache Indians in the North Americas, how they run like the wind, how in spring the Sakura trees in Japan bloom like weeping ladies..

But I want more than just read of all of it.. I want to see, feel, hear them all for real.. run with the Apache Indians, explore the Everglades and all of Florida’s swamps, hold the luminous white petals of the ghost orchid, visit the flippers on the south pole, wrestle with the polar bears in north pole.. and experience the cherry blossoms in Japan..