To be honest, I've chosen Nursing as my college degree to go to America. It wasn't rooted deeply in my innate passion for caring but in my desire for a better life (although I love being a nurse now, and I'm a caring nurse, in my opinion). I believe, perhaps just like most Filipinos, that the best way to be financially secure and dip into a lap of luxury was to earn dollars...a.k.a. American Dream. I had a lot of relatives in the US. One of them was a nurse, and seeing her l