Part of the Plan

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  Sharing you with what it felt like to be living without my family by my side, two weeks after the Phils to USA journey. The price I had to pay for wanting my family to be together.       I live one day at a time.   I live by God’s graces, blessings, … Read more

Pictures Pictures!

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By this time, we learned our assignments, we were attending schools, befriended our colleagues, in the process of adjusting to school rules and regulations, the educational system, language and most especially, our students! Unfortunately, I wouldn’t be able to tell stories, as I would have wanted, because of some privacy issues.  The thing was, coming … Read more

First Timers

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I remember, on our very first day in New Orleans, Louisiana, we were looking for sari-sari stores! There’s none!!! Unlike in the Philippines where you see stores on every corner? Here?, none (you miss it, but after some time, you get used to it!) ~  We have no car since we just came. What did we … Read more

"The Land of Milk and Honey!"

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… and then the airplane landed… I didn’t know what to expect!!! “The land of milk and honey!, The land where dreams come true!, The land of abundance! – Here I come!!!” I was just pumped up seeing all sorts of people, hearing different languages and smelling different odors!LOL! Funny, I was one of those … Read more

Airport Blues

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I was so excited! Well, it was actually a mixed feeling!  At that time, I was with Louella (a Special Ed Teacher too)   We checked in our baggage first. No problems.   It was around five o’clock in the morning, still, early so we went outside again to eat some breakfast, took some pictures … Read more

Mabuhay! Welcome!

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Welcome to PINOY TEACHER’S STORIES! Before coming here in the USA in September 2007. I was really very curious! First and foremost, it was my first time to ever leave the Philippines! I didn’t even have an idea as to what “another country” looked like! I was that naive! So, I had too many questions! … Read more