DESERT

Place that most of us don’t like it. Hate it isn’t it. What were going to see, to feel and what is the importance of this place? Place, where we can see suffering, lack of water and many things. That’s why most of us hate this kind of place. Who are going to like and love the place like this? I think no one does.

Still in my mind the question why? One night that I’m hoping someday I will experience to be in that place. Place that most of us disgust. I want to reach out this different place where I only see it in picture. I don’t want to think pessimist that I’m going to think suffering, sadness, unblessed and aloneness in this place. It’s a matter of fact, that change in my vision is what I want. When my eager comes true I was so amaze if I could feel changes in my vision to that place. When I heard out the one of the most memorable message I’ve ever heard in my entire whole life and this is it “you’re going to spend Christmas vacation with us here in Doha, Qatar”. So it means that I was given an opportunity to visit Doha, Qatar and spent Christmas there.

Doha, Qatar is one of the smallest but beautiful countries in the Middle East. I feel unusual that time and I can’t believe it. I’m nervous, happy, feel some worries and excitement, when I first step that country.

And when we stay there for almost a month they bring us to the different, beautiful and famous spot. That time while were having a trip we got stop for awhile to step out and feel the desert there. I also see and touch a real camel. Desert that I’ve only see in books, magazines and pictures but now it’s real. I’m not hoping someday because this is it. Yes, it’s a desert but that time I’m so proud to my parents who brought us there and give us an opportunity to have new experience. In that desert I notice the lack of many things like water and plants because the plants that I saw there are already dry. And I ask to my self is this the desert I want to see? Where’s the different of it. A thing that I want to see in the desert is some happiness. Afterwards we decided to ride on again and have to continue our trip. I don’t want to nap in the car because this is the time that I can see different surroundings.

After an hour I see beautiful desert, where I found some different. We stay there to spent our lunch and look around. I don’t want to just look around. I want some memoirs and souvenirs that I will never forget. It is first time to happen in my life to be in the place that I never expected that I can step. It is one of the most important and beautiful memories I ever had in my life. I get some grain of desert and put in a bottle.

When our vacation is over we need to go back here in the Philippines. And the grain of desert in a bottle is now the things that is valuable to me. Every time I see it I remember the time that I saw and step the desert that before is just hoping someday to be there but now I already went in that place. And the souvenirs I’ve got still in my hand and part of my life.