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Gabaldon Schoolbuildings of the Philippines: A Legacy of over 100 years  When I came across an article about Gabaldon schoolbuildings to be restored, I could not let the opportunity to write about it pass by. Why? A big part of my life was spent on these buildings. I could still remember how we, as graders in Cebu Normal Laboratory School, used to clean those huge Capiz windows because visitors were coming, and scrubbed the already shiny planks of the wooden floor with our coconut husks, with 6 of us lining up holding on to each other, scrubbing the floor together in rhythm, that way we could finish cleaning the wide floor right away. Sounds familiar? Did you also experience it? It was fun. I also recalled that whenever school vaccination time came, my classmates all lined up to get vaccinated for chicken pox or whatever, a few of us would ran away and hid under the school building. There was enough room for us to crawl underneath the Gabaldon building. Then the school nurse would com