Flying high with Wanderwoman

(Photo by Macky Lim)
(Photo by Macky Lim)

THIS woman has shown how beauty can bloom by channeling understanding to people of various cultures every day.

Tolerance and survival – those are the things that Anna Angelica Sotto learned while working as a flight attendant in an international airline company.

“Being away from your family entails a great responsibility because nobody is there to back you up when something happens. At the end of the day you are alone.”

Among others, she learned how to deal with different kinds of people.

“You have to be more tolerant of people. In my company, different nationalities entail different personalities. Not all are easy to deal with.”

A former reporter of SunStar Davao, Bunchy as she is called, copes with the feeling of “lessened individuality” in the uniformity her work requires through writing.

“I write for SunStar Davao and I write for our company magazine if I have some time. It makes my workload less demanding and it gives me a sense of purpose. Despite having difficult work schedules that can reach up to 18 hours, I still find a way to do this.”

Writing travel stories, she said, connects her to her one true passion -- journalism.

“As I see my writing posted in the newspaper, I get a sense of fulfillment and humility. I know every time I write, I learn new things. It makes everything interesting,” said Bunchy who added that her ultimate dream is to become a CNN reporter.

“I know it will be a long way. I have to learn a lot of things in life. I want to get there without expecting. If it happens, it happens. If not then it is not for me.”

She builds on her dreams but is realistic enough to not expect too much. She also believes that sometimes life has its own way of redirecting people to their own purpose.

Bunchy currently writes travelogues for the lifestyle section of SunStar Davao as “Wander Woman”, where she writes about the places she had been to and her musings as she experiences yet another culture.

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