Nomad JuanCa's Report

Well, this is another update about my life in this beginning of 2007. As i said.. this will be THE YEAR, cause the begginning of it is being very moving for me.

Well, to finish with some previous stories....

A. The problem with the money was solved, last week the supervisor of financial process of Alegro PCS sent an email asking the accountant in Guayaquil to force the company in charge of money collection to cover the 100 usd missing in the report of the store. Yuppie!!

B. About the problems i had with my team... well... they are solved now.. since i am not administrator of the store anymore :(. By middle of January i was informed that our store would be franchized to a investor, which literally means she will bring her own people. Luckily Rosa, Shirley and I were chosen to stay at the store, working for this lady and Martha was moved to Mall del Sur store, Xavier was about to be fired.... but at the end the moved him to Malecon 2000 store, where he will have to work with an administrator that is known as the Scroodge of Alegro PCS.

It is true that i got dissapointed with this franchize thing.... i though that i had been promoted... but it didn't last. Well the good part of it all is that the store was remodelled and i had two days vacation ohh yeah :) after all one cannot cry for this kind of things all the time huh?. The new owner requested me to be in charge of the inventary of the store, i tried to find an excuse not to do it cause it is a lot of responsibility and i will not earn anything else for doing so... but well... at the end i could not scape and as she is the new boss... i rather get along well with her.

Apart from that everything was fine except from the part that my little niece was in hospital for a week :( Ivanna (2 years old) got infected by rota virus or something like that, causing her lot of fever that never disappeared, plus diarrea, plus some bronquitis.... the day when i went to visit her at the hospital i almost die....

I actually didn't think it would be something too important, just some flu... i didn't go to visit her the first two days cause i expected her to go out soon... but then... there was a sign. My older niece Andrea (9 years old) told me "Uncle Juan, will you go to visit Ivanna today?" I don't know why... but it was not only her words... there was something in the way she said it that made me understood that it was a sign.... after all God talks through children too. I though about the whole day... and i did it. I knew i had to.

When i arrived she had been sleeping the whole day, without speaking... the fever was very high... she had been receiving medicin to supply all the liquid lost due to the diarrea... and Doctors were not sure about when she would leave the hospital. It was so painful to me to see her like that... but then good things happened.... you know i love her lot, and well i don't see her often so she does not relate to me much, but when she saw me... she said "Uncle one!" hehehe... cause she can't pronounce Juan yet. We started to talk i knew that when you are with fever you need motivation so your body starts fighting against it... i was trying to make games to her, to talk, she is very smart so we always taught her about her body parts, so i asked... where is your nose? your ears? your tongue? slowly she started to recover... and she was telling me about her state.. she was showing me the oxigen machine and telling me "thing!! a thing!!" yes i told her, thats a white a thing.

By the end of the night she had lost the fever, and now was ready for the threatment for bronquitis, which she was affraid of, i stayed to help and the nurse though i was the father... :) well i am not but i love her like if i were.

The hardest thing came later.... My sister and my brother-in-law has been sleeping at the hospital for two days.. and they were death cause they had to work as well, and my sister was sick of her throat and with fever too.... she was having what i had and she was weak emotinally too... fearing something bad would happen to Ivanna. I remembered how it feels to be sick of the throat cause i had been twice like that in december and january... then i understood why i was there. I needed to help. That was why i was called for God to be there, cause eventhough she was surrounded by lot of people my sister was feeling lonely.... feeling week and with the life of her child in her hands... so i decided to take my position in life, and in the life of my family. For some reasons i am not good in many things but i am good in helping... when needed.

I hugged my sister and i told her to go home, she said no, i want to be bere if something bad happens to Ivanna, and cried.....i told her to go, she was sick and it was no good for her, i would stay the whole night with my mother, if something happened i would call her. She felt more confident and left... i stayed awake until 5 am while my mother was sleeping... then we changed turns and i had to wake up at 8am to go home, change clothe and go back to work. I did same twice that week. I was even ready to make it third time but luckily Ivanna was allowed to leave the hospital... during these days,... the whole family got sick with the same illness... my brother-in-law, my sister, my older niece, my mom. Luckily as they were older and stronger they had been just taking medicin and didn't need to stay in hospital... but it was a big hit for the whole family, but... united we faced and got over it.

After that situation... i was reflecting... and i learnt something, sometimes in life things that we face are not only for us to learn... to get over them... but also to be able to help others cause we have been in that position before. None really knows other's pain if you haven't feel it. I thank God for the chance he gave me to be in troubles, to be sick but much more important to get over it and then use that experience to help my whole family to face and get over it too.

Few days later something happened... guess what? MODEL ANITA IS IN TOWN!!!!!! oh yeahh!!! directly fron New Zealand our beloved friend came back to Ecuador to spend Christmas and New Year ... mmmm wow... salaries in New Zealand must be quite good ;) hehehe. It was so cool to meet Anita again, cause i don't see her for long time and i was very glad to know her traineeship in NZ was going great, we met also with Francheska, and Luigi (MC members).

We met at San Marino Mall, and had some coffee while talking about NZ culture, her personal experience there and so on... nice to see people developing around you. :)

Well, that has been my update, so far...to finish, i would like to share with you the last pic i took with my team at Mini CAV Riocentro Sur of Alegro PCS. Guys,... it was cool to work with you!! I wish you the best in this year :)

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