What I Learned from Experience

I just want to share my experience and what I learned from it. Last, January 9,2009 we had our duty from 2:25 pm 'til 8:25 am on the next day, it's about 18 hours I think.

What did we do during duty hours: stand, sit, familiarize the medicines on the shelves, copy charge slips on the notebook, talk with the staffs on duty, make fun of ourselves to ease the boredom, and the most exciting part was using the computer and talking with the patients-- dispensing... I slept for about an hour or two (hehe, we closed the pharmacy for indexing by the way, so we had nothing to do...thanks for the kind pharmacist on duty-- Mam Ella).

Walking down the road to our boarding house and when my body touched our bed, there I feel like I'm floating and angels are singing, I woke up around 4pm, took a bath, and went to the nearest BDO atm machine to withdraw but then the saddest part was my card was captured and the machine was temporarily out of service.

I feel like crying but then, the machine will not give back my card even if I do, then there's a lot of people there, I am ashamed to cry in front of them. I walked home and get my uniform from the laundry shop, masking my sadness through my smile, I went out to eat (breakfast,lunch,snacks and dinner in one meal).

I eat out loud as if I starved for days. Then I realized that I am indeed so lucky, not only lucky but blessed. I will share what I learned.

1. It is really good if you have savings, not all the time you have money in your pocket, wallet or atms. Just like me, "I'm wise like my grandma" I have savings that saved me from starvation and nearly ulceration.(hehe... be a wise money spender, don't rush and save more.)

2. I am blessed that I have plenty of food to eat, not like the street children I can see near the school grounds, downtowns, in overpasses, and in sidewalks. We must learn how to share what we have, and let's not waste food, I had experience the feeling of eating nothing with in 18 hours and the feeling is not good, it's unbearable. I don't want to feel it again.

3. I am so lucky that I can speak,read,write and most of all understand the universal language--English, unlike other races. Because when I was lining at the food store to eat, I was behind two koreans, he asked his friends what they want "ku-la" or eys-ti", then I suppress my laughter maybe I'll get home with a black eye or I can't even walk at all after I laugh. I realized that he was asking if they want "cola or iced tea" then it occurs to me that Filipinos are so lucky because we can understand and speak even just a little. Go Pinoy!

4. I learned that there are a lot of people who cares about me and willing to help me when I'm in need. I really appreciate all of them. A very big thanks to them, you know who you are.

5. I also learned that taking up Pharmacy is not an easy thing to do, and life in a hospital is so toxic, so a salute for the doctors,Pharmacists and nurses too... Keep up the good work.

6. Lastly, I learned that I am so loved by God because I am alive up to now and I learned a lot.

I still got experiences that I learned a lot in life, maybe what happened is for my own good, that I may feel what the least fortunate brothers and sisters of ours felt. That it's hard to look for money, I also appreciated more what my parents sacrificed for our future.

I would like to thank my parents for the love and support and for the sacrifice you've done for our future's sake and also for the experienced I had for me to learn more, indeed you are a great teacher because I can't learn it from school.=)