5 - The Ancestral House in Manaog Pangasinan

"DESCRIBE A PLACE FROM YOUR PAST"


There are many people who went to a lot of places from their past. Usually those places are memorable to them. Maybe even some of them grew up from those places. Other than that, it is really a great experience to be able to explore to other places. What's good is that you would be able to encounter so many adventures and enjoyment in your life.


I grew up knowing to have an Ancestral House in Manaog, Pangasinan. That house was built a long time ago. The Japanese people were the one's who lived there before. Eventually that house was huge. It was made of hard wood. There were only two rooms. That Ancestral House was really near the Manaog Church. It's just walking distance.


According to my dad, all of his family relatives in his father side and their family grew up in that Ancestral House. They had so many family gatherings and parties in that house before. My dad also said that they would always play different kinds of games there. Actually, my two older brothers said they were still able to live in that house. They used to play there too. As for now, that house is empty. No one lives there anymore. Our last grandmother had passed away last year in that house. Knowingly, that Ancestral House has so many bats living in it already. When you enter the house you would be able to smell pee because of the bats. But what's amazing is that the house' foundation is still standing strong even though many years had already passed. The last thing they said about that house was that it has a spirit left inside that big Ancestral House.


I actually enjoyed writing about this topic. It gave me an idea right away in what to write. That's why for me it's really fun when you do a storytelling from the things you have experienced or encountered in your past. Especially now, many people had gone to so many places already. For sure it was so memorable to them.