About the author

Mariel was born on November 30, 1993 in Orani District Hospital.  She is the daughter of Mr. Ariel Arellano and Mrs. Imelda Arellano. She took up her primary education at Pantalan Luma Elementary School. On the other hand, she spent her secondary education at Orani National High school and at present she’s studying at Bataan Peninsula State University Orani Campus taking up Associate in Technical Graphics (ATG). She’s a resident of Barangay Pantalan Luma, Orani, Bataan for almost 11 years. Her father left the Philippines to work as a hotel security guard in Macau. Mariel loves to write poems about love, nature, family etc. She’s also one of the poem and news contributors in “Kawayan News Star.” She wrote two poems and one news. The poems are entitled “A Broken Promise” and “Goodbye my Loving Dad” while the news is all about her brother who won his candidacy for Vice President of Bataan and Region III in the Federation of Student Government Organization.

Mariel loves to play lyre or xylophone and sometimes piano. When she was in high school, she was one of the members of drum and lyre group in her school. Since first year until she graduated she played lyre for the group that’s why in their graduation night, she received a “loyalty award” and as her recognition she received a medal.

Presently, she’s working hard to get high grades and doing her best to be expert in her chosen career. As her motto inspire her to pursue her dreams… “Whatever past has gone, the best is always yet to come.”