Update:
By ingrid
@ridingbet (66854)
Philippines
October 27, 2017 5:53am CST
I am back now. How is everyone?
My colleague, Miss AGPR, who is now in Oman working as a classroom nursing instructor, suddenly messaged me on chat. This was when the electricity resumed at 4:45PM after we came from the cemetery. She said she misses the troop of friends, and she gets misty-eyed when we communicate with her. I tried not to talk about her family; instead, I asked her if she is already accustomed to her working conditions.
She posted a laughing emoji and said that if our students here are studying in the school where she teaches, our students will all be MagnaCumLaude already. She said if our students here have a few errors in grammar and spelling, the students there are worse, and they spell with “sounds like”. She also said that there are no wrong spelling and grammar.
I told her that she should be more patient because the country where she works is not an English-speaking place.
Our chat ended after 30 minutes; maybe she was going to school. I was about to cook rice. Maybe later, we will continue our chat again.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
28 Oct 17
s is getting accustomed working in that different workplace. maybe when we get to chat later, she will not be lonely anymore.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
27 Oct 17
Comparing people from different cultures is kind of hard. I hope she enjoys her time there.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
28 Oct 17
yes. her students are Arabs and it is understood that they do not speak and spell many English words correctly.
and example of English words that they spell, that sounds like is:
"recive (receive), and patien (patient).
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
28 Oct 17
i understand you are a Filipina; don't you get to communicate with some of your family members and friends here?
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
27 Oct 17
i think it's good that you make an effort to redirect her because you understand what it's like working overseas.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
28 Oct 17
@ridingbet when you were overseas, how did you communicate with friends and family here?
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
28 Oct 17
yes, we try to divert her attention whenever she starts to talk about her family here. she says she has not yet skyped her family because the connection in their place is so poor.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
28 Oct 17
@hereandthere snail mails, telegrams, long distance telephone calls, and cassette tape recording.
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@LadyDuck (502533)
• Italy
28 Oct 17
@ridingbet I fully agree, they must spell the medicine correctly, a mistake there can be very bad.
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@LadyDuck (502533)
• Italy
28 Oct 17
@ridingbet Better to ask for the spelling than to make a mistake.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
28 Oct 17
indeed. it is imperative to spell words correctly especially regarding the medicines. that is one of my requirements if i give rotation examination at the end of the duty days: i tell them that their spelling should be correct ('wrong spelling, wrong')
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@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
27 Oct 17
That's nice though you are already miles away you still have communication.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
28 Oct 17
that is the wonder of the latest technology, unlike when i was abroad, we had the telegram, snail mail and voice tapes. now, we can talk on Skype.
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
28 Oct 17
@ilocosboy yes, but to the point of making bad and fake news with it.
@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
28 Oct 17
Yeah this is one of the good thing about the modern technology
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
27 Oct 17
She's working abroad now? or same country but another hospital? Wow you guys went to Cemetery way too early. we might visit our grandpa on his birthday before the all saints day next week.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
28 Oct 17
she is in Oman. we also went to the cemetery to see if the man whom we contracted to clean our parents' tombstones are kept clean, but we were disgusted because the grass and the reeds were tall (but not tall enough to hide us from others).
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
28 Oct 17
we have a group chat name as "tropang prenship" but she communicated with me in my own chat account on messenger. if she chats in our group name, i expect that all friends and colleagues will contribute to the conversation, with lots of emojis and smileys.
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