Coffee Sessions
I DO not usually drink coffee. In fact, I am amazed at people who cannot go through the day without having a cup or two. If I were not aware of the physiologic effects of caffeine in the body, I would have thought that coffee had some mysterious qualities. Just imagine how being deprived of coffee affects some people. They suffer headaches and develop an incapacity to think, write, meet or concentrate, among other problems.I do not usually drink coffee. But I have to drink it when I am in some remote communities. Curiously not all the coffee served in barrios is brewed. During my last stint in Batangas, home of brewed coffee, I was served instant coffee. And believe me, instant coffee is not only served regularly in Batangas but even in communities located in the remotest mountains and islands of the Visayas and Mindanao. And I mean instant coffee-as in Nescaf‚, Great Taste, etc. Sometimes I cannot help but recoil at the irony of finding instant coffee in a remote barrio where medicines and medical services are scarce, if they are available at all. For me, coffee served in the communities is the best. I cannot refuse to drink coffee when I am in the barrios. One time in Cavite, the members of our medical team began to w
"Coffee should be drank while hot,'' many would say. Why? Maybe because cold coffee has a way of accentuating the absence of milk and sugar, which is usually the case in many homes. I usually do not drink coffee. But I can drink gallons of it in the barrio. And for a community nurse like me who has made the barrio my second home, this is no mystery.
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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