During Typhoon Odette

The last article I was able to publish was on 15th of December before the typhoon hitted us. The day when I receive the great news I have shared to you. But my happiness was half-hearted because there will be a typhoon coming the next day.

Hello to my dear sponsors. I hope you are doing well. I am really sorry for not being able to be active here. It was because of power and data interruption. We are currently coping up from typhoon Odette but we are all safe. I hope you will understand. I am grateful that you are still with me in this journey. Love you guys. ❤️😘

During the typhoon Odette was a very scary day. We started our day with a quite one. The shore wasn't moving so as the leaves. It wasn't like the ordinary and usual day of typhoon that we encounter because despite of the announcement from PAG-ASA that the place is under signal no. 3 there were no sign of typhoon coming. That reason alone made us more scarred. It reminded me of typhoon Yolanda way back 2013 which did not give any sign of typhoon before it hitted the land very strong. While waiting for any sign of the typhoon for us to move to the evacuation area we are watching the sea and we also seen how people come and go busily. There's no wind nor strong rain during the day Odette visited us. Yet, it feel so weird and unusual.

We continue to watch the sea and the weather. It's around 10 in the morning when the sea rises without any noise. Few moments later the wind started to blew. And we move ourselves to a safe place. We evacuated in the vicinity where I work at the girls dormitory to be exact. We are four, all girls, in the living room in the dormitory. We choose to stay there even though there are four rooms upstairs. We decided to stay there for we think it's safe there than upstairs since the dormitory is a two story building.

My board mates decided to get some kitchen stuff while the storm had not arrived yet. They get back soon as the storm started. It was 3 in the afternoon of December 16 that the wind blew so hard that it made the tree fall or break. The electricity was off and the data connection lost. The rain started falling angrily together with the wind. And we were watching outside the window, how the wind break all the trees. We are more than scarred knowing that there are a lot of evacuees as well in the near building where the wind hitted very strong because the place is open and the direction of the wind is hitting towards the building.

We pray not just for our safety but more to the people who were staying in that building. We were worried because we were far away from our families and we don't know what happened to them as well. We keep on watching outside the window and continue praying. Few hours later as the storm was getting stronger, the total darkness replaced the light. We only have the light of the candle that served us our lamp. We could hear the strong wind blowing like there were big truck passing by. The moonson of I don't know if it's north or south or a combination of both keeps on blowing hard and strong. We could no longer see what's going on outside because we couldn't see anything. Our worries almost overpower us yet our prayer and our faith is much stronger than any storm or worries in that very moment.

We couldn't even eat our dinner because we don't have any appetite to do so. Our heart is in worries and scarred because of what's happening around. We decided to eat if the wind stopped. After six hours the storm was finally gone. The wind and the rain stopped devastating the land. Yet, we could still hear the roar of the sea. The waves is still rushing the shore. We didn't dare to go out of the place because we were scared. We decided to eat our dinner.

It was around 9:00 in the evening when the storm finally stopped but we couldn't sleep listening the waves. We decided to talked and watched a movie "kissing booth 3". It was 11:00 pm when we sleep but I couldn't dare to sleep because a have lots in my head. Another reason that I can't sleep is the heat. There's no wind and there's a lot of mosquitoes since my board mates forget to bring the repellant.

I guess it's around 3:00 in the morning when I was able to sleep. Even without nothing to do the whole day, I feel so tired, emotionally, psychologically and physically. I force myself to sleep because I needed it to get through the next day. I need to because there's more to fight for tomorrow.

It was my first time getting through a typhoon without my family beside me. It's difficult to face a struggle of a typhoon but it's more difficult when you are far from you loved ones. Though I am more than grateful being with my board mates in this time of struggles. I am more than grateful because God keep us safe.

I will continue my long story next day friends. I would end it here for now. Thanks for reading. God bless you always.