How traveling abroad made me see the real state of the nation

How traveling abroad made me see the real state of the nation

This year, for the first time in eight years, I missed joining Rappler’s live coverage of the State of the Nation Address (SONA). I was traveling with my boyfriend to Bangkok more than a week before classes resumed at UP Diliman. Yet I still watched the fourth SONA of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., and I made a video reaction that’s gone viral on TikTok, I’m happy to say. You can watch that here. This year’s SONA is exceptionally populist. At t…