At this early, there are already Boholano families abroad, who are booking their flights to the Philippines in July this year. To attend their town’s fiesta celebration, a relative’s wedding, family or Class Reunion, to jibe with the TBTK Global Homecoming schedules from July 16-26, 2009.
Latest information from Libeth Lamdagan-Haron, a Boholana Nurse in Saudi Arabia and is TBTK’s Coordinator in the Middle East, the Galinato Clan will come up with their own Tigum Galinato Tibuok Kalibutan (TGTK) also scheduled in mid July in Bohol. Their family members, mostly Nurses and Medical professionals, can be likened to the posted Converse adline. They’re Everywhere. Be they in Canada, USA, Hongkong, Europe, the Arab world, Australia, the Galinato’s sons and daughters form part of the Globalization of the Boholanos. In search of greener pasture in foreign lands and better pay to practice their professions, as well as to earn a living for their family. Everybody is excited that the Galinato elders come up with the meeting of the minds. To hold a family reunion, where else but in the home-province where all of them came from – Bohol. To visit the five surviving children of the late spouses Faustino Galinato and Teofila Ampong who compose the family’s counsel of elders. They have their own calendar of activities for the Galinato family to attend, as well as their participation in the TBTK affair.. Libeth is an alumna of the Bohol Provincial Hospital Hygeians Class, where the TBTK Chair, Mrs. Betty Veloso-Garcia, also belongs.
The Ng-Moreno family now based in New Jersey will also be homeward bound to attend the church wedding of their daughter Michelle at the Saint Joseph’s Cathedral in Tagbilaran sometime in July. There will be 20 of their family members and friends who already have booked their flights from JFK International Airport in New York, all the way to Tagbilaran, to be there when Michelle Ng will walk down the aisle to meet her groom before the altar. One of Michelle’s aunts, Davida Estorosos-Ng, who also is the bride’s godmother and wedding sponsor, is a Nurse by profession and is connected with a county hospital in Carlson,California. Again, Dav is a BPHSN alumna and classmate of the TBTK Chair.
Also, Mr. and Mrs. Ric Borja and family of New Jersey will be there in Tagbilaran for the TBTK, just like in the past. According to the family’s patriarch, it is one occasion to meet long lost friends and relatives in Bohol as well as see first hand, the progress and development taking place in the land of our birth. Home, after all, according to Mr. Borja, is still the best place in the world. Ditto with the Madanguit family in Chicago. As well as the Balilihanons in America, whose town fiesta falls in the middle part of July.
To those who form part of the TBTK 2006 delegations, they are one in saying that they look forward to experience the pomp, pageantry and revelry never before seen in Bohol, come TBTK 2009. To those who remain undecided, mark your calendar from July 16-26,2009 red. Manguli Ta Sa Bohol Sa TBTK 2009. (Douglas B. .Hontanosas)