I remember he can draw well at a very young age but there was something about his drawing that made the other pupils including me think that he is stupid. He was the only non-Filipino pupil in the class so when he drew a landscape with orange and yellow colored trees, all the Filipino kids laughed at his work. Why would he draw a yellow tree when everybody knows it’s supposed to be green?

Autumn was not a reality for me (and for most of the Filipino kids in that age) until I’ve seen it in the movies and learn about it in our Science subject. Winter is another story. I think every kid in my country has an idea of what winter is because of the “snow” in Christmas stories. We were all “would be nice to have snow here” because the idea of playing in the snow appeals so much.

Had I known that there’s autumn, I would have wished to have autumn instead of winter because of the colors and what it does to the landscape. I would have wished to play in the heaps of dried fallen leaves instead of snow. Autumn is beautiful!