weeksery

i've been working for Bantay Bata for one week! hmm...it seemed like i would have a slow beginning, coz the training for the job would have to do actual work - shoots, interviewing, writing. and since i'm not familiar with the way things are done here i'd have to sit in in the shoots of the other reporters. but i'm glad it has been otherwise. some events needed coverage so i've done 3 shoots and i'm preparing a feature on child abuse in schools. i'm glad those stories were assigned to me coz i'm freelance and i'm paid per script!

considering that i had a regular job for more than a year, it was weird for me to not have money coming in at the end of the month. Ack! the perils of being freelance...not knowing when you'll actually have money to burn!

good thing it's easy for me to adjust my lifestyle. well i guess coz even when i was earning regularly i always made it a point not to get use to spending all of the money i earn. so now that i have to scrimp a bit i don't have to do it with a heavy heart. buti na lang sadya akong kuripot!

so far the people are nice and very accommodating. i guess that since i'm working for a foundation, a NGO, the people are innately kind. and i've also learned that here in the philippines you have to smile often (even if it isn't part of my personality) and say po and take on a "sweet" accent (another thing that is so not me, hello? sarcasm?) ay grabe! but what's the effort if it will make things and work easier for me in general. and if i really think about it, it's not that big a deal.

but then again why do i have to change? easy. to be able to survive in the philippine workplace. because people judge me by the way i look - i.e. a person who has money and is a bitch. oh well...at least it's easy to change when the people are easy to work with. so it's worth it.

although don't you guys go thinking that i've changed ok? this is my work persona...haha ;-)