The death of Julia Campbell in the hands of a Pinoy made me shudder. After all, here was a foreigner who left the comfort of her First World country to become a Peace Corps volunteer in our own land and made it her own. She learned how to speak Tagalog and Bicolano (in fact in a recent TV video clip of her in the aftermath of Typhoon Reming last year, she chose to speak in Filipino rather than in English). She was well-loved by the people of Bicol as well as her foster family and many more whose lives she touched over the last 2 years. For such a young life to end this way is not just a tragedy for her family but for our whole nation as well. Continue reading “Julia, adopted Pinay”