[/caption]My friends in college wondered why I know lots of foreign words and phrases. They are sometimes amazed how I could easily rattle off Latin phrases like “Ignorantia legis non excusat,” “Dura lex, sed lex,” “Volo non valeo.”
There is, of course, no mystery with my ability. I owe a great deal of it to Mr. Felipe Zombilon, my English teacher in third year at Davao City National High School.
Of all the teachers I know, he’s the only one who is not offended when called Mr. Zombie. In fact, he himself told us right from the start that he preferred to be called Mr. Zombie. I don’t know why he relished the moniker. Is it perhaps to strike terror among the students? Not really. Oftentimes he is more jovial than terror.
