I KNEW many overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) because many of my relatives were OFWs themselves. We were then living at Basa Air Base in Pampanga, where my father worked as a soldier and my mother taught music.
I KNEW many overseas Filipino workers because many of my relatives were OFWs themselves. We were then living at Basa Air Base in Pampanga, where my father worked as a soldier and my mother taught music. One day, we received an airmail letter from my uncle who had not kept in touch in years. He said he was working in South Vietnam and would send money to my grandmother.It was his first remittance in many years.
When I took my graduate studies in the US, I also met many OFWs, but the ones in the American heartland went there to live. They were a hardworking lot and always chatted me up; they were hungry for news from home. But one of the conundrums of their lives was when they would offer me a job or give me an employment tip, I would just politely tell them that, 'No, I'm just passing through. I'm going home.
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