#44

i love philippines. i love america.


which is why i want to have dual citizenship! and also the fact that i have bragging rights in addition to the fact that i will be feeling so angelina jolie-international. i miss my mama soooooooooooo much! my goodness. i was thinking what it would be like to go back to america but in all honestly as Ate so eloquently puts it, i went from being a "bored mothapucka to living the good life." i mean.. mango ice cream, cousins & family, and building a foundation for my future. really, i am living the good life.

i always wondered what it was like to have a kindof lifestyle where everyday is an adventure. and now that i have it, its crazy.

classes are fun! what? FUN! i know right?! i learn so many interesting things. i honestly think nurses are the superwomen of the hospitals. in anatomy we were talking about how if someone's temperature is higher than regular, hyperthermia, that their at risk for having seizures and how when you access that you need to take preventive measures from having that happen like putting a hotpack on them and giving then a TSB, a tepid sponge bath (i didn't know there was an abbreviation for that) to lower their temperature.

and our pediatrician friend from the states treated us out to lunch and it was sobrang masaya, with everyone eating rice and ulam and taking pictures. i almost couldn't believe it. and then i saw some people who had these pink peacoat jackets over their white nursing uniforms and i told my friend how "kala nila their all that" as if it was some sort of rivalry thing going on. TFC-status yo. im not gonna lie, tho. i want that pink peacoat. hahaha.

there is this hilarious paperboy that works in the office whose tagalog is sobrang galang but his english is horrible. he is quite a character. i was going into class and he said "class is upstairs." and his friend goes "wow. na labas nu english mo." hahaha. how cuteeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. as if i don't understand tagalog. the way he tries to talk in english is so funny! probabley equally as hilarious as how i try to speak tagalog. maybe thats why i emphathize with him. hahaha. i was going up to the condo and he goes, "up going?" and i realized he asked if i was going up. hahaha!

omg and also my friend mlou was saying how she wants to go on Hole In The Wall, a tagalog game show. and i said: "oh deng. don't tease me like that" (how do you say that in tagalog?" and she said "nooo. you. me. and fobbi (thats the name of the hilarious paperboy)" and i was like !!!!!!!!!!!hahaha. if i were to go on a filipino game show... that would be crazyinsane! i would pwn that! you and i both know it.

i'd like to share with you some words i think should belong in every international hustler's dictionary:

persevere. opportunity. sacrifice.

Sometimes God gives you opportunities and its up to you if to make the most of it. In order to learn you need to be receptive to whats going on around you and enjoy the power of the present.

Don't ever give up, no matter how hard or difficult or thick that coursebook is, you need to learn to persevere in order to get what you want. and believe me, it will be worth it. you have to be willing to let go and sacrifice certain things (hot water i miss you) in order to get a grasp on the new things coming at you full force.

put your seatbelt on girl, cuz we're going places.