For one Filipino grandmother and former expatriate, it’s never too late to go back to school and take home a diploma.
Rosita Majait, 67, graduated high school on Tuesday in the Philippines after a more than 50-year delay.
And she didn’t just graduate – she marched to the stage at Negros Occidental High School to also receive medals for excelling in academics and good morals.
Majait had abandoned her studies at a young age and managed to finish only elementary school. She also married young and had four children.
When she was 32, her husband died, so she ended up working as a domestic helper outside her home country.
For more than ten years, she lived away from her family. She did so in order to ensure her four children could go to school and get enough financial support.
Two of her children eventually finished school and became nurses, while another one earned a degree in Computer Science and another became a computer technician, according to an ABS-CBN report.
When her children finally finished their studies, Majait thought it was time for her to take care of her own unfinished business.
“Why should I feel ashamed of going back to school? I’ll just try and see if I get accepted again,” she said in an earlier TV interview when she had just enrolled in school. “I just wanted to do something to enjoy my life.”
