The life and times of a PCV in the Philippines.
The last few days have been rather hectic. I haven’t had time to compose any journal entries, but I have plenty of ideas including a short thesis on the use of the car horn in the Philippines. Two days ago I came to my cluster site with three other volunteers. Read More …
As I said before, my hub group spent Sunday taking a trip to Donsol in Sorsagon. Before we even left Manila, we all expressed interest in going to swim with the whale sharks and our RVC managed to organize a group trip only 2 days after we arrived at our Read More …
Today I “interacted” with sharks. Sunday is our only day off during training and as a group, we decided that we wanted to go see the whale sharks. It’s a plankton/krill eating shark that not much is known about and there is much excitement over. Apparently the city of Donsol Read More …
Tonight is my last night in Manila until I swear in, provided nothing need bring me here sooner. We leave for the airport at 4:30 am (!!!) and should be arriving at our hub site in Bicol mid-morning. We’ll stay there for a few days before heading out to our Read More …
Lately life has been a bit hectic. I’m on day 3 in the Philippines and all of them have been in Manila, the crazy capital city. But really, we haven’t been in Manila…mostly the hotel/resort/place they’re putting us up for the next few days. We’ve been there exclusively, except for Read More …
We arrived at our hotel about 1:30 am last night local time, I have no clue what that translates to at home, after about 30 hours in transit. It’s now 11:45 in the morning, we just had to get our picture taken and pee in a cup (not at the Read More …
So, the last two days I’ve been at the Crowne Plaza Detroit, right next to the airport- how glamorous! The place is actually pretty nice, but I’ve been having issues with their internet connections- so I’ll make this brief. Also, I am already packed up for tomorrow, but I have Read More …
So, tomorrow’s the big day, the day that it all begins. I’ve got my bags mostly packed, but not weighed yet. I still have a few last minute things to pick up, namely two months worth of Rx meds that the pharmacy didn’t have on Friday and small gift-type items Read More …
So the last week and a half has been super busy. Time seems to be on a downhill racecourse and she’s picking up speed. Weekend before last I went to Oberlin, Ohio for a dance weekend. My motivation was primarily social but it was really nice to do a lot Read More …
With the little bit of time that I have left, I’ve been trying to fit in things that I need to do and make time to see people that I want to see. I’ve set up a last minute trip to visit some family in Asheville in a week and Read More …
So last night as I was trying to fall asleep, despite my coughing, it hit me: I leave in one month. ONE MONTH! I haven’t gotten to the point where I go all “oh man, what am I doing?” but I’m sure that will come soon enough. At the moment Read More …
Well, I have yet to see any coverage about the landslide on television, but it’s made the rounds on the internet. Just about every person who knows that I’m going to the Philippines has called, emailed or sent up smoke signals to me and my immediate family. Everyone seems to Read More …