A more of a friendships between this employer and employee here, translated…
It was our very first time, hiring an Indonesian migrant worker to look after our aging father. That day as I came home from work, the moment I’d opened the door, I’d found the shoe racks became, so orderly, she’d, shyly tilted her head out of the kitchen, called me “Aunty”.
Lily who was only twenty-three was from the countryside of Java of Indonesia, it was her first time here, she was curious about everything, everything was, fresh to her, and so, my dreams of being a teacher, finally came true with her here, from language, to how to use the household appliances, to how to take good care of my father.
a mural on the walls…found online
The first time Lily has time off, I’d taken her to meet up with people from her home country at the Taipei Main Station by bus. And, in a blink of an eye, by last year in June, she’d worked here for a full year, which gained her seven days off, she’d told me she wanted to go to Hong Kong to visit a friend. Holy! Thinking how when she first got here, she couldn’t even ride the bus on her own, and now, she’s, about to, fly out on her own, and, I’d, made use of my model teaching with her, helped her go abroad to visit her friend in Hong Kong.
And now, there’s that shine of confidence in Lily’s eyes, she’d worked orderly every single day to take care of our father. From the first day we met, she’d not been seen as a foreign hired nurse, but our friend, and family too.
helping the elderly woman put her hat on right…photo found online
And so, this, is amazing, how you can, treat your migrant worker who you hired to take care of your father very kind, and this is because of how kind the hired help was toward your father, how well she looked after him too, that was why you’d, treated her like she was a member of the family as well, it’s, reciprocated.
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