Minda

In the evening he met Minda in the park.

It's the 17th of May of 2025. About 20:00, my cousin Kathy, her husband Eric, their daughter Pia, and Eric's mother Minda arrived here on Lulu Island for an overnight visit, coming by long drive from the USA. Minda is a native of Zamboanga City, where Chabacano, Philippine Creole Spanish, is pervasive. Eric can speak Chabacano, Cebuano, Tausug, Tagalog, and English. Minda shuttles between Ohio and the Philippines, as her newer second husband is a black American ex-fireman chief from Ohio. They met through the Internet. My cousin and family, though, live in Washington State, as they moved from Georgia.

It's the morning of the 18th of May of 2025, with cloudy skies interspersed with blue spaces. I went walking to Tim Hortons café to enjoy a hash brown with an Earl Grey Tea with oat milk. Upon my return home, Eric, Kathy, Pia, and Minda were already awake. Eric and Kathy are fixing the new screen at the kitchen's back door. I talked a bit with Minda: Apparently, she and her new black American husband shuttle between Ohio and Cavite in the Philippines. We know that in Cavite, there is Chabacano, Philippine Creole Spanish, that is a different dialect from Zamboanga City's. Meanwhile, I ate more of the tiramisù, leftover from last night. My cousin Eve made it. Moreover, in the morning, I have been looking over my Native Indian documents in linguistics, like California's Shasta, etc.