The unforgettable strangers at Home

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Did you already meet a stranger that leaves a memory in your life?Stranger are people who came into our life once and they disappear that never turns back again.

Here’s a story;

Hi I’m Shiela and let me share a story on how we meet a stranger and how did they affect in our lives as a family and individually.

One day a stranger came into their home, she was just 10 years old at that time.They said, that they need a place to stay to fulfill their community development study for a short period of time.

Her father built a new house for them since their home is already old and some parts of it are already destroyed, the students and her father agreed to let them stay in their home for a study purposes.

Her parents have accept them ,they just need to be with the family for 2 months, that’s why Sheila and her family needs to live in our old nipa hut and let them stay in our their new home.They are in different they are all young ladies, beautiful and had a smiling faces.The main problem is,how to communicate with them,they don’t know how to speak their language and her parents didn’t have knowledge about it because they didn’t finish their school even in the first grade. Everytime they need something to tell them, they need to approach a neighbor of what is the different name of langka,monggo,Guyabano and many more.

But if only there was a google that time,we don’t need to do it,but that year 1996 there is no electricity in their place,and the people have no idea about technology.Sometimes ,they just look at them, and listen what they say,and they just had to say, yes and no,hehehe.

They always wear,”bota”,boats,jackets and hat when they go out, wherever they go, they are afraid of snakes and the heat of the sun.Every night they come with them to watch “Betamax”, and even if the show is a Tagalog movie, they still cry and relate with what they see, sometimes they ask with her mom and she just used a sign language to explain.

Her mom cooked food for them because they didn’t know how to do it.They ate what what her mother prepared and they gave them also when they have food.

They are very nice people and become close to with the people in the community, they even have suitors, but they are afraid and they ran fast when they noticed that some guy wants to follow them while they are walking.

They explore how did the people lived and what kind of livelihood we have in our barangay. Aside from that they teaches them with Mathematics every afternoon, with all the kids in the neighborhood, they gave the kids notebook and pencil to be used in their learning everyday.They also gave an assignments, and they teach a song and play guitar.

The children learned with numbers came from a stranger, who cares for the kids.They teaches with good values and practical life.

But there was one time when they go to the town, with their colleagues to meet their tour guide.Sheila’s mother cleaned their house where the stranger used to stay,she sweep the floor and take out the garbage bag which they placed outside their room.

And the woman saw a leftover wafer and chocolate inside the garbage bag,and it was not open yet,that’s why the woman take it and eat.Sheila saw her mom eating those candies,and she saw her face had a smile even if it comes from a garbage bag.She felt pity for her mom and thinking that one day she can have her mother the foods that they like to eat.

In the afternoon,the students came home from the town,they found out that the garbage bin was already empty,they go inside and talk with each other,Sheila and her mom didn’t understand completely what do they talk about.

They noticed that the student hurriedly pack their things and go to town and find a place to stay.After a few hours,there was a man who came into their home and told them to go with them.Her mom and Sheila didn’t know what’s the reason behind.And then someone talk them and say,”they said your mother steal the foods of the students.They were so shocked and say,”No,she didn’t!”,but the students have insists that her mother is a thief.

Sheila go home and cried, even if she is in a very young age,she can’t afford to see her mom crying in front of them.She knew the truth, because she saw her mother on that they, that she ate the chocolate from the garbage bag, and not the food inside the house.

She can t even sleep at night, and wish to never see the strangers again in her whole life.On the other hand, she’s thankful because of the learning that she had with them but in terms of accusing her mother is a serious matter which makes her feel hate.

Her mom tried to reach out with the students and ask forgiveness of what she did, she explains her side and talk to them for a long time.

They never talk with the stranger again until the day that they need to go back home.Each of the students cried and hug Sheila’s mother and ask forgiveness for accusing her, and take a picture and gave to her as a remembrance of her.

They really felt sorry for their bad inter pretation about her mom.Sheila didn’t noticed that her eyes had shed a tears and she was very emotional, at her young age.

Her mother don’t deserve a false accusations, after all her sacrifices, cooking and helping them fixed their things, she deserves appreciation and a grateful heart.

Sheila and her mom eat with them together after the reconciliation they go home while the students go home on a ✈️ ride.

My words

Reconciliation in the end is the best thing to do after every conflict that we encounter, we should learn to be humble ourselves with each other so that we can have peace in the end .

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