CHAPTER TWO
MAY GOD BLESS and PROTECT YOU!
Wish and prayer of the parents, of their family, was the only thing that the girls brought with them in venturing to a very far place, to another country with another kind of culture and people. Prayers and in themselves their high dreams and expectations.
The six, very young girls were very excited. Being from a poor family and now flying with an airplane, the excitement was very high.
"If you are not inside, it just looked small!" Luisa said and the other girls looked at her.
"What are you talking about?" Thelma asked Luisa.
"This plane! Imagine it can fly! It's very big and heavy! I remember the song, I'm leaving on a jet plane!" Luisa said and sang the last part of her sentence.
"Huh, you are singing but I think you are afraid!" Grace teased Luisa.
"I am not afraid, I am only a little nervous. Imagine, this plane flying so high, if it falls no one will survive!" Luisa said.
"Hey, don't talk like that. Nothing will happen with this plane. We will reach our destination.!" Luz subdued Luisa.
"Yes, Cyprus we're coming!" said Carla.
"Is Cyprus in Europe?" Lorna asked.
"We were told that our destination is Europe, thus Cyprus is in Europe!" Luz answered.
"I am not sure!" Lorna said, and the girls looked at her. "Cyprus is an island. It is near Turkey, Syria, Israel, Lebanon and some more Middle East countries. I doubt if Cyprus is Europe!"
"If Cyprus is not Europe why in our contract, our destination is Europe?" asked Grace.
"Let's not make it a problem! Maybe, we only stop over in Cyprus!"
CYPRUS
In Lanarca International Airport, it was a big fat man that picked the six girls. They arrived in the middle of the night. There were two other groups from the Philippines they learned were cultural dancers too, that travel together with them on the same plane, but another person picked these two groups and they did not knew where these groups were going to. Them, they knew where they will go, to Nicosia City.
NICOSIA, CYPRUS - SEPTEMBER 1985
The big fat man that picked them from the airport introduced himself as Dimitri. Dimitri brought them to Nicosia. In there as they learned from Dimitri, they will stay for half year or maybe a year in Nicosia, and worked there. After that, they have to go to another country and if they were lucky, maybe the next country will be Switzerland.
Dimitri brought the group to their apartment on the third floor of a big building. When Dimitri leave, the girls occupied to each a bed for themselves. In the room , three double deck beds and one big locker with also six doors.
Dimitri told them, that there were six Filipinas in another room just across their room. The other group were on working so maybe they will met them later. The apartment had two rooms, each room a group of six people, so they learned they were twelve people living in that apartment.
"The two groups that were with us in the plane where did they went?" Carla asked the other girls while she arranged her clothes and personal things in the locker she claimed for herself.
"That's not what I am thinking but what Dimitri said to us. He said we could not go out from our apartment until he told us to do so. You all heard it?" Lorna said.
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One Road, Six Ways
General FictionSix Filipinas not knowing they would became victims of human trafficking were glad that they went abroad as cultural dancers as what promised to them, little they knew the dangers that awaited for them in another countries, first in Cyprus, and lat...
