Scholarly

 

     A few days ago, my niece got an email informing her that she had been conditionally selected for a prestigious scholarship abroad, meaning, she’d be taking a postgraduate study away from us for a year, and if no hitches would come out, she’d be leaving a few months from now (her boyfriend, a cum laude graduate of UP, meanwhile got a different but equally prestigious scholarship abroad, which is longer (two years), and would be leaving also a few months from now, just weeks ahead of her.

     I immediately volunteered to be her escort while she’s abroad, but alas, the escort must shoulder their own expenses, and I, for the life of me, can’t afford it.

     Anyway, I hope her scholarship pushes through, that she'd be safe and happy during her stay abroad and I hope she gets a future so bright I’d need to wear shades every time I’d visit her.

     Come to think of it, all my niblings from my siblings are all doing very well in their studies. My oldest nephew, a student in De La Salle, is a consistent Dean’s Lister, his eleven-year old sister consistently gets good grades, and their youngest brother, who is only five-years old but already a regular honor student, is already bored with his teacher’s lectures. I remember my sister's’ latest anecdote about this precocious boy, she was teaching him some math and spelling lessons, and the boy, looking visibly uninterested, suddenly blurted out, “Aren’t we going to do something harder than that?”

    All of them, obviously, inherited all my smart genes. Lol.