Thank you to my bff Karla for taking this photo <3
“Hi, what’s your name?” Xyza cheerfully asked
me as I approached her on the podium. I gave her my nickname, “Macee.” She
looked at me with a puzzled expression and said, “Pahirap na ng pahirap ang pangalan ng
kabataan ngayon,”(The names of teens nowadays are becoming more and
more difficult to spell.) Then we both laughed. I spelled out my name for her
and she wrote it down on a souvenir photo along with the words “Thank you,” and
“XCB.”
