8:10 PM while
waiting for dinner
I have just read the letters of the children the latest of which was May 26th. Imee has won top honors in the A seniors exam for Drama by the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. And she is getting congratulations from everybody there and enjoying it. She did the part of Carol in “Time and the Conwygs” (J.B. Priestley) and her old part of Maurya, the old lady in “Riders of the Sea.”
She says “Puede na pala ang OA ng Maynila dito sa Ngangland. Pumasa rin ang siklab ng lahi—Cyrano de Romualdez and Caesar ni Marcos—OK!!!”
Irene has also written a letter. She wants to be sent home. And she was writing the letter with a torch as “Sister Patricia just turned the lights out cause she said we were talking & we weren’t even. But anyway I can still continue cause I have a torch.
The children are still homesick. You can see it from the number of their letters. I do not blame them.
Imelda and I with Ising [Maria Luisa] and Danny [Daniel] Vazquez just came from Fuga by boat where we looked around the lovely beach and the deck. I drove the jeep to the airfield and back.
We tried the 83 a Coastguard Singapore built ______. It is powerful but has a tall superstructure. The wind is still strong but while the boat rocks and pitches when not running, it is steady when on the move.
But we took the Taggat II, a tugboat back as it can beach directly on the shore. Because of the waves, it was hard to board and disembark from the 83.
Went with Ambassadors [Henry] Byroade & [John] Curle and Danny in the Miss Barit to Ririgatin and Dalupiri islands about ten miles north of Fuga. No luck. I caught on my new tackle only one barracuda. On the way back I directed the pilot Cresencio de la Cruz to proceed to north of Fuga island for more fishing. And at 12:30 a southwest wind sprung and 12 foot waves met us. Since the engine was misfiring it was touch and go. But we made it back to Barit at 1:30 PM.
Met [Jose] Joe Aspiras, [Nicanor] Nick Yñiguez and [Eduardo] Danding Cojuangco [Jr.]. I told them I was not going back to Manila until the elections in the Cons. Con. [Constitutional Convention] was finished. Which could mean next Wednesday. We may go to Baguio next Monday.
No Official Gazette entry for this day.