Such a nice place!

[febtember]

Hello Everybody!
I arrived U.S.A july 13, 2001 with my (former fiancee)now husband.We leave P.I july 13 the same day when I arrived here ohmmmmmmmmmmm plus you know that july 13,2001 is friday the 13th.It's something funny for me, but I dont have Phobia about friday the 13th I dont believed superstitious my MOM do.My Port of entry were San Francisco,while still on the plane the the pilot greet "Good evening the time exactly 7 p.m"and announce that were already in San Francisco and ready for landing.I ask my fiancee like this"MY Love what time again'then he response"it's 7 p.m.My eyes wide and say"7 p.m still have dayligth.
I call my Mom as soon as I can then tell here all the interesting story I have.
By 12 midnight we board on TWA airline bound for Lambert ST.Louis.We arrived there exactly 6 a.m and there my fiancee parents waiting for us.They give me a warm welcome hug.Then hop on thier very nice car heading for Raymond,Illinois.Its one hour drive 70 miles.
Wow!what a nice place!All I see were corn and green plant,I never know that it's soybeans.I can't believed this ,all you see here were miles and miles of corn and soybeans.
At last I'm here in Illinois in the middle of nowhere.In the middle of farm.I really like it here, so much.I live with my fiancee parents till we get married and move to my fiancee's house after the wedding.
My husband parents super nice to me.All people in this small town give me warm welcome.I feel like I'm a princess here.
I enjoy helping my fiancee(now husband).I help him building the grain bin.I ask him whats grain bin for.He told me for the grains.I'm so proud to tell you all here that i'm the one put flashings on our bin and help put the flooring.
I learn how to drive tractor on my second day here and drive pick up truck.I really like it here.I  go with him in some farm auction sale and tractor show and tractor pull.Its pretty interesting.I can't immagine how the auctioner talk too past.In every auction and show we go I keep on looking some people hoping to find Filipina but never found any.I think i'm the first filipina in tractor shows,auction and pull.hehehe:) I use to ride with my husband in our combine and can't believed how this machine work.For me its like spacecraft ,the sounds like where in ourter space.Its fully aircondition and it make me fall asleep there while my husband harvest the corn and soybeans.I ride with him  in tractor with cab when he flow our field and get ready for the next planting season.We own a big farm ground and run a machine shop.
I like the food here.Oh my I never eat real big sweet sweetcorn before,I like roast beef,szukinee bread,never see real apple tree,pear tree,strawberry ,super big sunflower.My husband and I love to go animals show and some petting zoo.I never see llamas before,  camel  and deer,dunky, and moose.
I see the season also from summer,fall and snow.I'll be more excited this spring my husband prefer a plot of land for my garden.
We got married last sept.8 2001.Honeymoon not yet over!I'm really bless being a farm wife.A friend of mine give me mama bunny and week after she give birth to 9 cute baby bunny's.My husband bestfriend give us the uglies pig in whole world his 4 task stick outside but his not a mean pig his really friendly we name him "Arnold "the pig.
Such a beautiful life where I am now.It's a paradise!
My husband and I love John Deere tractor coz its run like a deere.

[rgg]

... in response to Such a nice place!, posted by febtember on Dec 21, 2002


Kamusta febtember,

Nice to hear you're adjusting pretty well to married life and happy with your new environ.  Sana post ka pa ng mga experiences mo, so other Pinays can read and learn from it.  

rgg

[Bear]

... in response to Such a nice place!, posted by febtember on Dec 21, 2002

being where you want to be amd with who, you want to be with.  Amazing how theres nothing there you don't find interesting when your love is with you.

Bear

[Humabdos]

... in response to Such a nice place!, posted by febtember on Dec 21, 2002

Hi Raquel! Sounds like you have a really great attitude! Your husband is a very lucky man. Please send that photo of you and your husband, the dog and cat in your santa hats to Jeff S so he can put it in the PL photo pages.
http://www.geocities.com/jeffsatpl/index.html

Sallie May said to say hi and sorry she mised you last time.

Humabdos

[Eman]

... in response to Such a nice place!, posted by febtember on Dec 21, 2002

Great story! Welcome to Illinois, where the soybean is still king. BTW - Illinois is not the middle of nowhere, but the exact middle of everywhere, although, when you're in a soybean field, it amounts to the same thing...

May the years bring you many joyful harvests!

[Windmill Boy]

... in response to Such a nice place!, posted by febtember on Dec 21, 2002

mrs.  Febtember    welcome  to the  board ...

I recall  viewing  your website  a few  weeks  ago  with  interest.  Many  of  the  people  who  post here appear  to go  through  a  culture  shock  when  they  visit the  phillipines  especially  the provinces.  I  thought  now  here  is  a  real  twist  a  filipina  with  an  industrial  job  marrying  a  farmer.  now  that  might  be a  real  culture  shock.  

Many  of  the  posters  here  I  am  assuming  live  pretty close  to  larger metropolitan cities.  I  think  many of  us  would  be in for a culture  shock  even  if we  visit farms  in our  own  country.  We  find  the  end  results  of  the  farmers  work in  our  grocery  stores  but  how  many of  us  realize  what  it  takes  to  produce  it on  the  farms  and  ranches.  

I think  your  story  is an  interesting  tale and  I am  glad that  you  are  having a  blast  learning  about life on  the  farm.  However llamas are native  to South America  and  are  not  really  very  common  in North America.  But  for  some  reason they are always  at  the  petting  zoos ha ha ha.  I  found it interesting  that   you  stayed  with  your  future  in laws  until  you  were  married.  Now  that  is  the  traditional  way  of  doing  it!

Thanks  for  sharing  your  new life  with  us.   Next  summmer  you  might  not feel  so  singled  out in  your  community though  when  many  of  the  farmers  get  their summer  working  tans ha ha ha

All the  Best

Windmill Boy

[tomtneal]

... in response to Such a nice place!, posted by febtember on Dec 21, 2002

I am glad you like it here my wife does also,wait till it is time to cut the yearlings you can have mountain oysters now that is real country style food
tneal

[Windmill Boy]

... in response to Re: Such a nice place!, posted by tomtneal on Dec 21, 2002

Tom

I  lived  in Colorado  for  a  year   and  I  never  once  came  accross  Rocky  mountain  oysters  ha ha ha.  Though  they did  have some  good  BBQ outside of denver.

Windmill Boy

[Dave H]

... in response to Re: Re: Such a nice place!, posted by Windmill Boy on Dec 21, 2002

Hey WB,

Just go to an Argentinean barbecue. I have several friends from Argentina. They love meat and eat all kind of glands, intestines, and miscellaneous (unknown to me) body parts. I just stick to the sausage...I don't know what's in it and I don't care to know. I have a good idea about the casing... 8-O

Dave H.

[Jeff S]

... in response to It's not to late..., posted by Dave H on Dec 21, 2002


It's better that you don't know how some things are made ..... Like laws and sausages.

-- Jeff S.

[Dave H]

... in response to Old proverb:, posted by Jeff S on Dec 21, 2002

N/T

[Ray]

... in response to Such a nice place!, posted by febtember on Dec 21, 2002

Arnold the pig? ROFL!

Welcome to America feb! I loved your story.

Ray

[Jeff S]

... in response to Such a nice place!, posted by febtember on Dec 21, 2002

Very sweet. Best of luck to you!
-- Jeff S.

[Dave H]

... in response to Such a nice place!, posted by febtember on Dec 21, 2002

Hi Febtember,

I am soooo happy for you and your husband! I loved your story!!! I remembered my grandfather's farm and the lands of my youth...rural Michigan. ) I hope that you run into another Filipina one day...I'm sure you will, as they are everywhere.

Dave H.

[Jimbo]

... in response to Such a nice place!, posted by febtember on Dec 21, 2002

febtember,

Thanks for that wonderful post!  Soybeans, tractor pulls, outer space, and past talking auctioneers LOL!  And I love those dunkys too )  You sound like the real thing - Cheerful, fun-loving, curious, and talkative.  Man is that refreshing to hear!!  Congratulations to you and your husband!

Happy Holidays,
Jim