My Day Was Saved!

Earlier this morning I woke up, took a bath and dressed for my duty. As I was waiting outside the house near the street for a cab, I remembered it was strike! So there would be no possible transportation available for me. I started to get worried. Then I prayed, a short intense prayer. I looked at my watch, it's already 5:49am and our roll call is 6am. I don't want to have an extension duty, a munite late would cause me 8 hours of extension, and a 15 minutes late would cause me 24, and I'd be paying 32php for every hour. That is too much. I can't be late. I waited. Waited for a long long time. Then I peeked at my watch again, I was shocked. Then I felt a drop of sweat in my wrist. It was already 6:13am. I thought I must be in the hospital by now. I started to walk slowly. I was looking at the corner of the street hoping for a cab, then I saw a hand waiving from an approaching car, It was my classmate Bob! I was very happy, there's nothing I can think of other than to get in and rush. On the way, we talked about how we are going to deal with our extension, for sure we will be rewared for being late, his dad was just smiling, listening how we looked very worried. After we were dropped in the hospital, I nearly forgot to say thank you as we were rushing in. I was surprised to see no nursing student in the hospital. I looked at my watch again. It was already 6:22am. I wondered, only two of us were there,not even our clinical instructor. I begun to get upset. Maybe there was no duty after all, me and Bob thought maybe we wasn't able to get the announcement. Shortly after, 6 of my classmates arrived, followed by our clinical instructor. I sighed. At last, for all the tense I've been this morning, it was not wasted. Plus I don't had an extension! I was really very happy. Unfortunately, only 8 or us had our duty, the others didn't make it. After the duty, I went out, grabbed some food, and the rest of the day went well. Thanks to Bob, he saved my day!