Metropolitan

I have been drawing almost every day and this one, I just finished it yesterday and i thought it would fit with the topic hence my story is about living in the Metropolis.

I was born and grew up in one of the cities comprising Metro Manila in the Philippines. Metro Manila is home to roughly 20 percent of the country's more than 80 million Filipinos. I have lots of sad, happy and exciting memories living in the city with lots of people surrounded by lots of houses and establishments like big malls and restaurants, transportation - like bicycles, tricycles, jeepneys, busses, private vehicles and some years ago the metro train. I was used to hearing lots of different kind of noises just by opening the front door of our house.

One experience that I cannot forget is about a typhoon that was named "Yoling". She possessed a mighty wind and non-stop downpour of rain. Some of the water dam in Metro Manila collapsed that made most areas flooded. Our house is a two floor made not of concrete but wood. That morning, the water went up right away and when it was already one meter high, my parents decided that we moved to a concrete house nearby (it was the house of a relative who's an engineer, and have built his own house which have been tested having been through a lot of disasters....)especially that we don't know when it'll stop. There was no electricity and my father was afraid our tin roof will be flying also just like our neighbors. We ran by two's but, we had to passed by a three floor concrete abandoned building before we reached the house. Together with my cousin we started running but the wind took us both and I hit the wall of the building. My cousin who was thrown almost near the house waved at me and started running again. I did not waste anymore time and ran after her, and lucky me because just after I left, the building collapsed. I almost did when I saw it. Very terrifying experience. An experience like that is something we cannot get used to eventhough a strong typhoon is very frequent in our country. We just have to be prepared and always ready with all the options we can think of. Now, that I am living in a country with extreme weather condition, that I am still alarm by heavy rain and blowing wind that I thought a hurricane is coming. We have lots of trees around the house and the noise it creates during windy days reminds me of the strong typhoons we had.