But mom rebutted that well-known yet fallacious assumption by stating that on the contrary, Filipino parents go abroad in order to rear a family! No parents in their right frame of mind would want to leave their young children.

The principal then was enlightened [I guess] that he gave me a chance to stay, but I had to do summer school. The rest was history but mom's reasoning greatly disproves that false yet very popular notion about overseas parents.

But overall, things turned-out for the best as we're now living quite comfortably after years of sacrifice early on.

Unfortunately, not everything turns-out OK for so many other Filipino overseas especially the women as a lot of them gets all kinds of abuses & ill-treatments such as: getting beat-up like a slave, tortured, molested, raped, & even worse, killed especially in the Mid-East.