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finluithiel) wrote2008-05-04 06:35 pm
finluithiel) wrote2008-05-04 06:35 pm
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Ferdinand Magellan, that crazy old coot, took five ships and circumcised the globe...
...leaving us hapless students to memorize the dates for when he sailed off from Spain (20 September 1519), when he found Magellan's Strait (20 November 1520), when he made landfall in East Samar (16 March 1521), and when he was killed by Lapu-lapu's men (27 April 1521).
My brain is smote dead from memorizing all the names and dates. @____@ And I can never seem to remember which datu was baptized, Kulambu or Humabon.
The names of the ships in Magellan's fleet, however, I will never forget; Trinidad, Concepcion, Victoria, San Antonio, and Santiago -- the holy quintet -- has been pounded into my head since my history classes in grade school.
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It's funny that our discussions in Hi165 and Fil14 mirror each other. We talk about our colonial history and culture in Hi165 while talking about the literature of that period in Fil14. We actually tackled Antonio Pigafetta's account of his interactions with the native FIlipinos in both classes. Pigafetta oughtn't have written about the penis piercings in such great detail, as my history class is convinced that he's a pervert, while some of my classmates in Filipino won't stop asserting that he's a sodomite. xD
My brain is smote dead from memorizing all the names and dates. @____@ And I can never seem to remember which datu was baptized, Kulambu or Humabon.
The names of the ships in Magellan's fleet, however, I will never forget; Trinidad, Concepcion, Victoria, San Antonio, and Santiago -- the holy quintet -- has been pounded into my head since my history classes in grade school.
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It's funny that our discussions in Hi165 and Fil14 mirror each other. We talk about our colonial history and culture in Hi165 while talking about the literature of that period in Fil14. We actually tackled Antonio Pigafetta's account of his interactions with the native FIlipinos in both classes. Pigafetta oughtn't have written about the penis piercings in such great detail, as my history class is convinced that he's a pervert, while some of my classmates in Filipino won't stop asserting that he's a sodomite. xD