Me is back from the land of philippines! Man, was the weather superbly HOT!! Seriously! Even after showers, you'll just start sweating like a pig. Even when you're sleeping. Its seriously, that bad. hahaha. No airconds, no rain and no pampering. Its just hot hot hot and there's really nothing u can do about it. Worst part, there's water rationing as well, so water is only in supply from 6-8 am and 5-7pm. No showers too!!! :S Really prefer malaysia anytime!
The sign which welcomed us upon arrival.
The Airbus.
Besides that, everything was good. The food was awesome. hahaha we had like mangoes and cikus every singly meal. Very delicious! The cikus there are huge man! Its like almost a size of an orange! hahaha. Reason being, these fruits are in season now.
I basically went there for a mission trip organised by our college youth church. We were called in to handle a 3 day youth camp at the local church, tracting ( giving out booklets), and also to minister to the villages. We were at Anda Island the whole time. Didn't have time to go to manila, besides its 6 hours drive away from where we were staying anyway. Well, the people there in general are really friendly, even strangers. While tracting, they just invited us wit open arms. ahaha just ask yourself who in the right mind in kl would actually open doors to strangers, worst still foreigners. LOL. you'll prob just ignore or shoo them away right? Its different there. Everyone is family oriented and closely knit.
Everywhere u go you'll see farm animals around. Pigs, goats, chickens you name it. The place i stayed in, the neighbours had this huge mother pig, and it gave birth to 9 piglets!! so cute!! hahaa. and it was running around makin pig noises. lol. super funny. even at night. they were even playing with the dog! Wanted to take some shots, but didnt manage too. hehe.
Hmm the camp we took was great! i was particularly in charge of the games. And well, they had fun. I'm sure they did ;) all of them were really friendly, some really bright students too. I'll post up the pics soon.
On the last day we were there, we went to Tondol beach, their local beach. Pretty calm waters and pretty clean too. Picnic-ed and swam for a bit. Overall, it was a really good experience, meeting new people, new things, exposing ourselves to different cultures etc. Now, its back to reality!
Our team!
Will post up more pics later! Tata!
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