Katarina Rodriguez expresses pain a month after 'Typhoon Odette devastated Siargao': 'Ito ang pinakamasakit na naranasan ko'

Katarina Rodriguez expressed her pain a month after Typhoon Odette devastated Siargao island.

On Instagram, Katarina shared photos and videos of her life in the island before Typhoon Odette.

"It hurts different when you lose a place. It hits harder when it hits home," Katarina wrote in the caption.

Katarina said although it's already been a month since the typhoon she doesn't "feel completely ready to talk about it, I need to."

"Ito ang pinakamasakit na naranasan ko," she wrote.

"I have read my neighbors' thoughts as they've expressed the pain they're going through & it's both scary how accurate their words are yet also comforting to know whatever unbelievably sad, angry, confused, hopeful? feelings I'm feeling, I'm not alone in this," she added.

Katarina said this year would mark her 4 years in Siargao Island.

"If you've been following me for some time you'll know how my journey has led me to the island," she wrote.

"I used to think that I had too many photos, especially of the last 2 years living there without leaving," she added. "However looking back at my memories I wish I took more."

Katarina said, "These days are how I'll remember Siargao."

"The piece of paradise that took me in, flaws & all," she wrote. "Where I met & fell in love with Niño. The island that became home to me & my little family."

Katarina said she would close her eyes at night and she can "picture every corner of the island, every establishment, every smiling face."

"I can literally feel the sun kissing my skin while I ride angkas to Niño on the motorbike driving down General Luna to pick up my favorite carrot cake from Kaimana after a smooth surf in Guiwan," she wrote.

Katarina pictured how her usual days went by in Siargao Island with her partner Niño.

"I can see our dogs running towards us as we pull up to the entrance of Bayud ready for their share of the famous pan de coco we brought back from town," she wrote.

"It's almost eerie how if I lay still enough I can feel the peace in my body as I would lay over my surfboard w my eyes closed listening to the sound of the waves & saying thank you to the universe as my whole body is kept warm by the sun rays," 

"The playful laughter of the children next door swimming at sunset, the boys' friendly bickering over at Bayud's bar, my son's happy face during his early morning pasyaIs beach front & my favorite Niño smile as he paddles back from riding that perfect wave."

Katarina said she play "these memories over and over as to not forget them, each memory and each moment having a special place in my mind & in my heart."

"Heaven really is a place on earth. Heaven is Siargao," she ended her note.

Typhoon Odette made its landfall in Siargao last December 16, and has since caused casualties in the whole island. —JAB, GMA News.