Feb 17 - Friday
This afternoon I skipped classes and slept and then I went to school at 4:40 pm because I was going to be an usherette for the Music Concert. I spent the whole time with Annabelle Morelos who is very energetic. Sister Celina, Sr. Chantal and Sr. Innocencia kept hounding us. Once when Mari Ojeda was talking with us, Sr. Innocencia came and stood between us so we couldn’t talk any more. The 3 of us started to giggle and laugh. Mari said he had a ticket for me for “Jam Session” but I didn’t get it. Both Annabelle and ????? wanted to take me home but Margot P finally did.
Feb 18 - Saturday
This am I went to the ANC. Nacho, Conchita, Lita and Marina were there. The 5 of us went swimming. This evening I went to the Black Kats’ Party. Maripaz Godinez is one of the most simpatica girls I know. The party was nice. I danced mostly with Agustin Aboitiz and some other guys. I caught Cosme looking at me about 4 or 5 times. Agustin asked me if I liked him more that a friend and I said “no comment.” (I said “no comment” to Agustin? Was I drunk! How about “over my dead body?) (Four dozen years later, I got the chance to speak to Agustin when he was facing the inevitable - and he was so sweet and upbeat. He made me laugh and kept teasing me and remembering the times he used to drive me crazy - all this days before he passed away. Oh, how little we appreciated our then “quirky” friends and how amazingly the human spirit rises above all adversity.) Jun Ripoll asked someone who I was and what my name was. I wish Nacho had gone but I was happy Cosme was there.....!!! Honey was on Bing Tuason’s radio show tonight.
Feb 19 - Sunday
What a, well, monotonous day. Went to Mass at 11 am then to the ANC. The usual people were there. Ate lunch at Conchita’s house this noon. Went to the Gaiety to see “The Wizard of Bagdad.” Then we went to the ANC (Conchita, Lita, Maribel, Marina and I) Nacho went to Marina’s house looking for her with some other guys. My throat and chest were sore this pm but I took Cepacol and I fell much better. I hate school! I feel awful this days. Oh, I don’t know what’s wrong. I guess its just me.
About Me
- Lea
- Brooklyn, New York, United States
- I was born in a Japanese concentration camp in Los Baños, Laguna in 1944 and raised in Manila. I spent my grade school years in Maryknoll College and high school years at St. Paul's College of Manila. I spent most of my summer leisure time at the Army Navy Club of Manila. I married a nice American man in 1965 and moved to New York. In 1969, I left New York for Barcelona and lived there 8 years. I returned to the States in 1977 and lived there until 2011. I visit Manila and Barcelona as often as I can. I have a lovely daughter and granddaughter.My father, Hal Bowie, died in Manila in 1974, and my mother, who moved back to Barcelona after his death, died in 1995. I retired from Polytechnic University (now NYU-Poly)in 2011 after 27 years! After moving to Florida I returned to NY after 8 years and now am living again in my first home in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
