10 August 2008

The Next Filipino Import

Douche: "What do you do?"
Me: "I'm a nurse"
Douche: "Of course, you are. You're Filipino."
I'm a stereotype in so many ways. (But let me be the first to make fun of myself.)
So imagine my relief to hear that pretty soon, we'll be importing teachers in addition to nurses.

Lessons Far From Home
by Phuong Ly from The Washington Post
At a Forestville elementary school, Mabel Ventura learns what it will take to give her family in the Philippines a better life
The bleak side of the story is that Baltimore can kill you (Sorry, John Waters.):

Pinoy Teacher Driven to Suicide in Baltimore
By Rodney J. Jaleco
ABS-CBN North America News Bureau

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