We Tamed the Sea
Bernice S. Castro
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WHEN YOU WERE in grade school, your teachers taught you the two climates in the country. It was all very scientific, and thus, very true: for about six months, it was usually cool, for another, it was usually warm. Rainy and sunny. Wet and dry. La Niña and El Niño.
But this is what you knew:
1. Hot meant summer, and summer meant no school,
1.1. Unless you had to enroll to a summer sports clinic,
1.2. But even that wasn’t school.
2. Cold meant rain, and rain meant no school,
2.1. Unless they had to make up for suspensions with Saturday classes,
2.2. But even then, your teachers dismissed early. Still meant no school.
This is what you (and even your teachers) didn’t know:
For half the year, Amanikable, god of storm and sea, wooed Maganda. He
