a japanese-chinese- filipina girl all in one….
in my work as an optometric assistant, i get to deal with a lot of people..and different ones too..i get to interact with elders ( some are really very sweet), with kids ( the youngest ive handled so far was 4 yrs old), with teenagers, yuppies, middle ages like 40s..not only that.. they all have different nationalities, some even have interpreters with them that i felt that im in a miss universe pageant…hehe..well, the patients too get to deal with a girl who has multiple nationalties..hehe..(physically maybe but not by heart..)
awhile ago i was dealing with a new patient who is a filipina..of course i should speak to her in english still because maybe she grew up here and she prefers to speak in english or whatsoever..but as the interview moves on, i realized that she is having a hard time in speaking in english and organizing the words so i just told her that i am a Filipina and i started talking in tagalog already..she laughed and said that she thought i was chinese..i laughed too
…and i counted her in the club…hehe..the club of patients who have mistakenly thought that im a chinese or japanese girl..
yes, there are alot of times that i was thought to be chinese..or japanese..or whatever..but one thing still remains and could never be changed..i AM a FILIPINO..and my heart belongs back home..where my loved ones are..the PHILIPPINES…
