That department is a three-storey building in a big hospital… the top floor is a special place.

There’re more than 20 members in our group, almost are girls with 4 boys only. When we came that department, the boys were assigned to work on the third floor… but they were there rarely. We’re told an unwritten rule: " Do not go to the third alone"… It made me thought of the haunted houses in old stories…

That place for patients with Aids only, that was something like a hidden and awesome place in my mind. Sometimes, the boys told us that someone died, sometimes we heard crying sound… I went there, I saw no many differences with beds, patients, and patients’ family… But it’s the only place I could see the patients who’re prisoners…

Working a part time job every night and instead of night duty, I did my duty on Saturday and Sunday’s days. Weekend’s days off, there’re only 2 nurses and 2 students worked for all patients… When we worked on third floor, I could see the patients closer… They almost were young… Two of them were prisoners, they’re youngers…

One usually sat on his bed beside window…It’s a green garden of view from the window with a big milk blosoms tree… I could see a clever face with something wildcat… He’s older than me 1 year… Sometimes I saw a man there with him… I thought that’s his father… They spoke rarely… They seemed waiting for something… I didn't know really what it could be, but I hadn’t felt fear them like before…

One lay on bed in another room, half of his body was full of injuries, his face’s too. He couldn’t move and I thought he couldn’t see. A man was always with him to sever… When we closed to him, he asked the nurse if whether she feared him… The nurse said if she’s scared, how she could do her job… And he asked me: "I’m young like you but I got Aids, do you feel sorry for me?"… I couldn’t say anything… It’s one of the hardest questions to answer… But it’s really a meaningful lesson…

Sometimes... life is so short………?!!

In my training courses at hospitals I met many people, some of them give me very strong impressions. Maybe a day I will forget them all, I don’t like that bad day so that I try to keep that. Hope it works…..