TARP CENTO

Last semester, two months ago, my students at UP Los Baños had to write 101-word short stories for an activity in our Humanities course. They chose the best among these, decked them with collages and illustrations, had them printed on tarpaulins, and mounted on 3' x 3 1/2' boards, all in an attempt to repurpose our campus corner into a picture storybook.

Then, towards the close of the semestral break, just a few days after All Souls, typhoon Yolanda ripped right across the heart of the country.