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bicycle at a park, a bangka or small boat (with someone rowing it) at a beach
resort, and comic magazines at the neighborhood sari-sari store (variety store).
However, in many rural neighborhoods, what is more common is hiraman or
borrowing. A neighbor drops by another’s house to borrow a cup of sugar or some
vinegar. Children are asked by their parents to go to a friend’s house to ask for
some banana leaves for cooking. At wedding feasts, neighbors bring their plates to
the house of the bride, who needs these plates because of the huge number of guests
she is expecting.
In these farming and fishing communities where everyone knows everyone,
families are interdependent on each other and learn the value of pakikisama
(adapting to others) and pakikipagkapwa-tao (treating other people well).
To read more about pakikipagkapwa-tao, you may want to look into Katrin de
Guia’s Kapwa, The Self in the Other (Anvil Publishing, 2005), as well as articles on
the subject written by Virgilio Enriquez, considered to be the pioneering scholar on
Filipino psychology, and by Leny Mendoza Strobel.

Pagbabasa

Read the following poem, and then answer the questions that follow. Study the
following words before reading the story. You have learned some of the words in
earlier lessons, so some of them are listed here for you to review. You can also
refer to the glossary at the back of the book.

Paglalakbay Journey
Pagsinta Love

Paglalayag Sail
Pinakatuktok Highest point
Pag-asa Hope

Pananalig Faith
Tandaan Remember

Hagurin Massage
Gilid Side

Paroroonan Destination
Mangingibig One who loves

Paglalakbay