I Am A Tourist Guide At St. Michael s Cathedral - 886 Words

With Love and Squalor Amelia He When I boarded the afternoon flight for Vancouver, my total outfit consisted of a small carry-on bag, a North Face rain jacket, and a black leather snap purse containing my ticket, passport, wallet, and a folded paper with my residential address on West Mall Street. It was early September. I was at the ripe age of seventeen, bright, timid, and full of the foolish illusions of youth. A gush of tears at my mother’s farewell wave, a touch in the throat when the plane engine clacked, a pathetic sigh as the familiar cosmopolitan environs passed in view. The threads which bound me so tightly to home were irreversibly broken. While stranded mid-air, I reached to the stale tourist catalogue packed in the back seat pocket. The cover page was a glossy picture of St. Michael s Cathedral. And I recall a very strange, inexplicable incident. I had been volunteering as a tourist guide at St. Michael s Cathedral all day long. Towards sunset, just before it got dark, I left my shift and sat on the steps of Banh Mi Boys Sandwich Shop unwrapping a sandwich. The April sun bathed the clear frosty weather. All the skyscrapers sparkled and glittered in the brilliant light -- a stark contrast from the gloomy hue emitted by the panhandler next to me on the steps. The young man fidgeted and jittered in the chill, with his dwarfish figure, his bent back, his face with the stamp of forty years upon it, his jacket torn at the seams, his head, balding but for locksShow MoreRelatedThesis in Filipino18532 Words   |  75 PagesBermase, Arvin T. Celestino, Christine Joi S.M. Doria, Ma. Princess E. Gapuz, Shekinah T. Nalupa, Hannah Kattrina T. Santos, Jamil Joseph N. Torrijos, Antonio Jose D. Tubadeza, Kathryn Mae P. 3 JRN 2 2010-2011 Sa Patnubay ni: Gng. Milagros Aquino I. ANG SULIRANIN AT SANLIGAN NITO Introduksyon Noong ika-23 ng Agosto sa taong 2010 naganap ang isa sa mga trahedya na maaaring magdulot ng pagsama ng relasyon sa pagitan ng Tsina at Pilipinas, at ito ay ang madugong kapalaran na sinapit ng walong turistangRead MoreSummer Olymoics23416 Words   |  94 PagesNations participating | 204 | Athletes participating | 10,820 | Events | 302 in 26 sports | Opening ceremony | 27 July | Closing ceremony | 12 August | Officially opened by | Queen Elizabeth II | Athlete s Oath | Sarah Stevenson | Judge s Oath | Mik Basi | Coach s Oath | Eric Farrell | Olympic Torch | * Callum Airlie * Jordan Duckitt * Desiree Henry * Katie Kirk * Cameron MacRitchie * Aidan Reynolds * Adelle Tracey * Austin Playfoot (relight)[1] | Stadium |Read MoreExploring Corporate Strategy - Case164366 Words   |  658 PagesECS8C_C01.qxd 22/10/2007 11:54 Page 597 CASE STUDIES ECS8C_C01.qxd 22/10/2007 11:54 Page 598 ECS8C_C01.qxd 22/10/2007 11:54 Page 599 Guide to using the case studies The main text of this book includes 87 short illustrations and 15 case examples which have been chosen to enlarge speciï ¬ c issues in the text and/or provide practical examples of how business and public sector organisations are managing strategic issues. The case studies which follow allow theRead MoreOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 PagesLandscape Gerda Lerner, Fireweed: A Political Autobiography Allida M. Black, ed., Modern American Queer History Eric Sandweiss, St. Louis: The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past Sharon Hartman Strom, Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform Michael Adas, ed., Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History Jack Metzgar, Striking Steel: Solidarity