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I'm in a really exciting place right now; finally seeing my path and how all of the roads of my life have synthesised together to form this one.

Last night I attended a performance of Nanay: a testimonial play, which was created in collaboration by the Philippine Women Centre and Geraldine Pratt, a UBC professor of Feminist Geography; Race, Gender and Labour Market Segregation. Basically it is a match made in heaven and my own work will grow from hers. The performance is a multi-media interaction on the topic of the real human effects of Canada's Live-In Caregivers program, where women are required to complete 24 months of work within a 36 month time frame. As Pratt states, "Given the situated meaning of home and childcare, it seems much cleaner analytically , and possibly more effective politically, to interpret Filipina domestic workers as vulnerable to the most extreme exploitation, as standing alone in their experiences of layers of oppression " (Collaborating across Our Differences, 2002:197).

I stall so much in my life but now I'm not afraid to move forward. I know where it will take me and how much good will come of this work. My own work will be much like Pratts, participatory action fieldwork, this time centering a mini-ethnography around the production of Nanay and what it means to the people who have come to create it. I'm not going to be one of those researchers who is only involved in the field for a short time, then moving on to bigger and better things...I think this could be it for me, or at least a big chunk of my life. The work done by the Women Centre and the Kalayaan center is so wonderful. Enough wanting, I am going to get involved.