I just want to share my personal experiences that I'm having right now in my life, last October 13, I left my family again to comeback again and face the reality of my life working very far away with them as a seafarer.
After more than 6 months of vacation since I was repatriated from my work on board last April and not able to finish my contract because of pandemic. It used to be a normal routine of my life that being apart from my family because of my job as an Ofw, but these time of being apart of them is very different which I can say is very hard for me as every step of my feet I took far away from my family is very hard and really breaking my heart. The reason is because that for staying with them for a much longer of time that is 6 months compare to the usual 2 months time of vacation I take every year, and another reason is that I'am worried about my family because there is still an pandemic around brought by the Corona virus. But all of that reasons I had is I have to throw away and have to sacrifice my happiness of being with them as I have to came back to work once again and face the reality of life so I can give them all their needs especially in these times that our savings are affected due to the strike of this pandemic.
So my journey begins on working again on board as I was been tested in Manila for a swab test and then right after that we directly sent to hotel near by paid by my company while waiting for the results. Actually waiting for the results of the test really make me very nervous and very stressful as if ever had been positive for the covid test it will be a big problem as it will delay my working back on board and another thing is my family back home will be involved and will be put in a hard time as they will be track by contact tracers and maybe will get discrimination from other people and for sure by our neighbors. But thanks to GOD as he answered my prayers and I was tested negative of the covid test.
And so go on my journey continue as on the 15th of 1:00am in the Philippines together with 2 other colleagues of mine we fly to Abu Dhabi and then had a connecting flight going to Milan and then on October 15th 1:00pm in Italy we have arrived safely. And then we stayed directly in the hotel to have a rest after a long tiring flight. And then the next day we are again go for a swab test before we could embark on the ship and then GOD is great and I was negative again with the test along with my other colleagues.
And then on the 17th we have embarked here in the ship we will be working for 8 months. But before that we are sent directly to our cabins and here we are not allowed to go out side as a health protocols of the ship we are quarantine first for a week and today 24th if October we are again been tested for Swab test covid testing for the third time. And I can say that my nose is hurting because of this testings but I have no choice but to abide the protocols.
Well tomorrow we will get the results I just hope and pray again to GOD as always that everything will be alright. And as we are negative with the results we can started to work again.
In life there is a lot of challenges and trials that we must face though sometimes we feel that we are feeling weak already because of it and think that we could not get on anymore, what you must do is just close your eyes and pray to our GOD and he will show you the way to resolved all these things. It is important that you should never lost faith in GOD.
