What kept me busy
I found work or rather work found me. I started working for a home health service provider a few weeks ago. It's an interesting job and the pay is above the minimum wage. Well, it's a start - I'm just glad to land a decent job.
What was amazingly weird about this new experience was how small the world really is. One of the owners of this company is a Filipina who went to UB Science High. She's a medical doctor and is the marketing manager. My immediate boss is from La Union and studied engineering in SLU.
The assistant administrator is also a pinoy who happens to minister to fellow kababayan here in Bakersfield. Other staff are pinoys too and majority of the nursing personnel are from back home.
The lingua franca in the office is Tagalog - although English is the official business language. Every now and then we get to talk in Iloko and Cebuano is heard here and there. What I'm saying is that we took parts of home and brought it here.
Lunch is another manifestation. We always have rice and Filipino food.
Indeed it has been very busy...
What was amazingly weird about this new experience was how small the world really is. One of the owners of this company is a Filipina who went to UB Science High. She's a medical doctor and is the marketing manager. My immediate boss is from La Union and studied engineering in SLU.
The assistant administrator is also a pinoy who happens to minister to fellow kababayan here in Bakersfield. Other staff are pinoys too and majority of the nursing personnel are from back home.
The lingua franca in the office is Tagalog - although English is the official business language. Every now and then we get to talk in Iloko and Cebuano is heard here and there. What I'm saying is that we took parts of home and brought it here.
Lunch is another manifestation. We always have rice and Filipino food.
Indeed it has been very busy...
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