Learning to Drive

Driving a car is new to me and is something I am interested
to do and learn.

I was accompanied by my husband to the Department of Public
Safety where I took the exam for me to have a permit to learn
to drive. The result was good, had a 100% rating. Since then
I started to learn to drive and my husband has to be with me
since it is required that someone with a driver’s license has
to sit next to the student driver.

I admit that learning to drive is not easy for someone like me
that never drove any type of vehicle not even bicycle. In the
Philippines where I came from I can always get a ride from a
jeep, bus and taxi (our local means of transportation) without
learning how to drive. But since I am now in U.S.A. driving is
a thing that I must learn to do. One of the things I appreciate
here in U.S.A. are the roads, very wide and a center lane is
there for those making a turn and almost every driver if not all
uses their directional in changing lanes and in making turns.
Traffic lights are working and everyone pays attention to it.

Learning to drive in U.S.A. is something that I enjoy doing though
I still have to conquer my fear. I always believe that if others
can why can’t I.

St. Mary's Church

The St. Mary’s Catholic Church is one of the beautiful Churches
around Brownsville, Texas. This is where my husband and I goes
every Sunday for a Holy Mass. The schedule of Masses comes in
English, Spanish and Bilingual but we go for English of course.

A solemn celebration is being observed and a band accompanies
the choir that makes it lively when the assembly praises God
through singing. Every time a reading and Gospel is being said
a slide on an OHP (over head projector)is displayed with a picture
on it. During the communion the people don’t just receive the
host but the wine too which I didn’t experience from the different
catholic churches in the Philippines that I’ve been to. During
the communion people don’t push or cut in line instead they fall
inline silently when it’s their turn which I truly appreciate.
The cleanliness of the surrounding and the central air condition
makes the place very comfortable for prayer and worship. The
warm atmosphere of the parishioners for everyone especially
for visitors and new parishioners like me and my husband made us
feel that we belong to the family.

The said church is the place where we’ve met Filipinos now working
and living in the Rio Grande Valley.