Life Overseas

I know that there are lots of articles and blogs written about how living and working overseas have been but I know I have to share a little of my own experience about how is it really to be called an overseas worker.

GETTING THERE
So, it has been exactly 3 years and 8 months since I decided to pack my bags and leave my family back home in the Philippines, feels like a decade already for me though. Yeah, when you are away from home, it felt like you have been away for too long. It was my first time to ride a plane all my life. It was an exciting experience and I was kind of nervous too. We landed in a hot, dusty land called UAE. Dubai is so majestic and first class at its best. I was feeling enthusiastic and full of dreams as I was setting my mind that I’m officially an Overseas Filipino Worker! I have lots of qualms but my dream of a better future is bigger and stronger that not even a single thought of them prevented me.

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I AM NOT GIVING UP
Now living on my own, I have to do house chores and learn how to cook. Cooking was a struggle for me (besides homesickness of course) at first and just to be able to get a taste of my mom’s dishes, I have youtube and google to ask how. I didn’t imagine myself living abroad when I was growing up as I promised myself not to be away from my home ever. But destiny (it was a long story) had taken me here in a foreign land and got no choice but to live with people you are not related to, apart from the culture. And that is a big struggle. I don’t have any problem of living with other people though, but with different personalities is something like a challenge for me. I cannot say I was brought up perfectly by my parents on dealing with people but adjusting yourself to understand somebody’s attitude can most of the time exhausting too. It is like you clean up the room all the time, then your roommate will mess up and never cleans up, you tried to understand the person, so you clean up the mess, and the cycle repeats. Well, that is just one among other circumstances so to speak.

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MOVING ON
At this point in time where adjusting has subsided, but not totally, and homesickness is just a thought that visits me when I’m so down and sick, I gather myself up and heading forward to reach my goals. I will not stay and live far from my land for a long time. I am eager to achieve my dreams and fulfill them in God’s perfect timing. Struggles are just struggles and I won’t let them fail me. Truly, living abroad is never easy. People from my country thought we are living luxuriously, but in fact, it’s the opposite. We work hard day and night, even get extra work just to provide what our family needs back home. We are noted as “heroes” of our own families by the way. I am inspired to face the challenges I encounter each day of my life because of them.

There are still a lot of things I want to include in this write-up but I am worried I might bore my readers. I am hoping not. I am still learning how to become a writer and trying to learn from others too, so please bear with me. Thanks to steemit for this opportunity.

Okay, until next time folks! Happy reading!