Sri Lanka Day 57 (Colombo): Selfless Fathers' Love
I forgot to talk about it yesterday but Sharizah approached me to ask if she could share my Sri Lanka photos with her Social Studies class! I'm really glad that someone is actually looking at my photos and they are actually of use!
Today was basically spent on watching the last week shows as well as to finish HJM and of course my reports. Presentation is coming soon and I really need time to do the slides. I hope I don't have to end up bringing my laptop to Tricomalee next weekend but actually as long as my bag can fit, I don't really mind doing so.
So my only meal at 4.30pm is... Asian BBQ Submarine.
The Eden Cafe Manager treated me to curry puff and fish roll as well. Kept wanting to give me his namecard and give to Pyramid Wilmar so that interns next time will stay at their place. Kindly rejected to do so. He is an Indonesian who left his family to work here in Sri Lanka.
I was actually supposed to change room today as requested yesterday because the number of ants in my room is insane. However I managed to get rid most of them by throwing all my half-opened food away ): I remembered in Misuki, even if I left my half-eaten ice cream in the room, no ant would come.
HAHAH my happy face after cleaning myself thoroughly.
Thought that it was almost impossible that we could go back to the factory site to say a proper goodbye before we leave because our last day is Sunday and it doesn't make sense to come back to this side of the island on a Friday (workday). Sigh but oh wells.
I think the most important lesson I have learnt this week is to treat everyone around me well and don't get angsty and impatient with them because I never know what they are going through. I may have my own hard times, but what makes me think that the rest have it easy?
Also I feel really blessed to grow up in a complete family. Even though we are not super well-off but as long as we are happy and healthy and not having to worry about money, we are wealthy! Don't you guys agree? I see some of the staff in the office leaving their own homes to work so that they can support the family. They can't even go back often because train tickets to them are not cheap given their low salary. They are away from their children, missing the times when the children grow up.
I could see the smiles on his face when he showed me photos of his sons on his phones last Friday. Yup, his phone was not a smart phone, yup the photos were really blur, yup he was smiling but I think behind his smiles was his desire to see his sons, behind the photos was the man who misses his family and behind that normal phone was his selfless act of saving more money for his wife and children. All fathers are the same and I'm suddenly missing my Daddy.
