Everyone here loves summer. Everyone enjoys the sun each second of this very short season. When the sun is out, the people are everywhere. Colors paint the city and the smiles are shining with delight. No matter how high the sun is setting its bars. Summer is like a drug to these people. It gets them high. It's a lot different in the place I've been from where the Sun is always shining everyday. I've realized just how much we should value each bright day. Because here, when the sun gets dim for a few months, it hides from you, you long for it and you fall into depression. That's what most people experience here.

 

i'm in Norway for almost a month now. It's a whole new experience for me as it's my first time - especially living on my own. I've been dealing with a lot of adjustments - work, weather, language, culture, people, loneliness, etc..

There are times when I feel so tired, alone and weak that I want to go back home. But God always sends something on the way to strengthen me. Indeed, the only one I can hold on to is God and God alone. My perspective about life is slowly changing differently when I got here and I know God sent me here for a purpose.

 

thanks all for your encouragment and prayers

 

 

 

 
The Philippine Nursing Board Exam results of November 2008 came out today. 
Congratulations to all of those who passed the exam. All your sacrifices paid off.
Now there are over 100,000 jobless Filipino nurses today and I'm one of them.

Right now I'm contemplating on myself. I have not practiced my nursing professsion yet. Why? Things here in our country is not easy.  It's hard to get a job here as a nurse.  You have to pay to be able to work at the hospital. That is all because of the thousands of nurses competing for the position and the posts were already filled.  After I passed the board exam of June 2008, I worked as a market researcher for 6 months. In December, I resigned because the company cannot support my needs anymore. It's been affected by the global economic crisis. We had fewer schedules to work.

Like everyone else here, I want to go abroad to work and earn there and send the money back to our families here. That's why I'm going to another country and get a job there eventually as a nurse. People always try to justify why nurses should not go abroad and help the sick in this country but many of us who are jobless cannot stay here any longer because we can't feed our families anymore. I am patriotic but I also want to let my family have food on the table and get what they want. 

God opened an opportunity for me in another country and all along I have been praying for His will on this. That day is fast approaching. Next week I'm leaving and although I'll miss my loved ones and the country I love, I will be happy that I will be able to help my family even in the least way. Although this opportunity is not a nursing career, but my heart is still towards nursing. I will do my best to pursue my career when I get there. God help me.


I'm very much thankful to MY GOD who have held me in His hands and gave my heart peace in the midst of my everyday struggles. I'm very grateful to MY SAVIOR who constantly assures me of His love. I'm truly nothing without Him.