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When my employer and I met the for the first time, that was after we both agreed to meet so that we can talk and get to know each other a little, she had mentioned about planning as part of a caregiver / nanny job.

Although I know already that house cleaning and some household chores are part of the job, I was unsure about planning. I know I am going to follow order, but planning? Of course I know it is house matters, so I have to leave that to the couple I am going to be employed with.

After three days of trial, she decided to get me full time and be a “part of the family”. During the working hours, she has to ask me about grocery lists and some stuff that we need for the house necessities.

Stuff for cooking obviously, is one of them. That, now I know is planning. Planning a grocery list and planning what to cook at least for a week. That also made me worries because we have a different kind of cuisine. We Filipinos, can eat their food, but them to eat ours? I doubt it.

However, they amazed me when they like my sea food fried rice, pancit (fried noodles to them), sotanghon (noodle soup) – and I tell you, they share the news to their friends that I can cook a delicious sotanghon. I even cooked chicken tocino, menudo, mechado – which they called beef stew, chopsuey and different kinds of shanghai rolls. I don’t know if they love those but at least they eat it. Or they don’t have a choice?

Needless to say, I get to learn some of their dishes too, and I am glad that my employer also told me that I can learn some recipes too (she has a lot of recipes in the kitchen), and even search some recipes from the Internet for me.

Planning for supper which is Canada’s big meal for the day is definitely a task for me. Since I am not really a good cook, I need a recipe book for a help. But I am not a recipe book reader; I’d rather leaf through my fiction/non-fiction books than a digest full of cooking elements. Yet, I can browse through the net for recipes.

I am glad that there’s a lot of blogs that caters into this topic and I am so happy that I saw the DayRecipe to which they update their blog daily with their favourite recipes that I can try cooking.

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Habang kausap ng tito ko yung tatay ko sa Yahoo Call, narinig kong sinabi nya na “e etong anak mo ang taas taas ng pangarap e!”

Dahil sa nalaman nya sa bibig ng dalawa kong pinsan na balak kong mag part time study ng photography, naisip nyang masyadong mataas nga daw ang pangarap ko. Ang sabi niya sa akin ang dapat daw isipin ko e magtrabaho ng maigi at mag-ipon para daw madala ko dito ang mga magulang ko.

Pag sinabi nyang magtrabaho, ibig sabihin nun tama na yung magtrabaho ako sa bahay bilang alila ng mga puti caregiver. At mas maganda e kumuha pa ako ng part time na madalas e house cleaner din.

Siguro hindi nga ako nag-iisip na kumita ng malaki dahil hindi ako nagsusumigasig makakuha ng part time nanny job o house cleaning. Sa isip ko kasi e limang araw na ngang ganun ang ginagawa ko e pahihirapan ko pa rin ba ang sarili ko na mag-alaga ng bata o maglinis ng bahay ng sabado’t linggo?

Kahit na batuhin pa ako ng may pang-uyam na tingin….limang tingkad na araw akong nagtatrabaho ng may labing dalawang oras. Kahit pa sabihin nilang pantay-pantay ang mga tao dito. Na kung ano ang kayang kainin ng mga mayayaman e kaya ring kainin ng katulad kong mahirap, iba pa rin ang pakiramdam ng isang katulong na pinay sa bahay ng mga among puti.

Isisigaw ko pa rin na, pwede naman siguro akong magpahinga ng dalawang araw sa loob ng isang linggo ano!

At wala ba akong karapatang paunlarin ang sarili ko? magamit ko man o hindi sa magiging trabaho?Lalo na kung alam ko naman na mayroon akong kakayanan maliban sa regular na pagpaflush ng iniwang maruming kubeta. Mayroon din akong pwedeng gawin sa labas ng kung kani-kaninong bahay…..

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