Tag: Philippines
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Philippines, Day 10… the extended edition?
So the last entry left us waiting at the airport. For an extra three hours. Keep in mind we’d already arrived the allotted two hours early. Yeah, you read that right– FIVE HOURS in a tiny airport. And we were supposed to have dinner during our layover in Manila. So here’s where being in the…
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Philippines, day 9… and the start of an odd adventure.
Saturday morning, we found ourselves back at the Compassion project at Life Church for their Saturday program. The kids are split into classes based on their ages, and our group broke into smaller groups to visit them in their classes. These are the oldest kids, years nine and ten, who will graduate from high school…
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Philippines, Day 8: the Underground River and Farewell Dinner
So, it’s been a couple of weeks since I got back from the Philippines and a lot has happened since then, but I still want to do the last couple of entries about the trip. This one is from Friday, June 6, and is from our trip to the Underground River, one of the Natural…
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Philippines, days 5-7
This will have to be a compacted post. The last couple of days have been long and Internet has been patchy, so there hasn’t been time to do a full update. Tuesday, we spent an entire day at the beach with our group’s Compassion sponsor kids. Most of them had never been to the beach…
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Philippines Day 4: Kids and Controlled Chaos
It’s the tail end of Monday and I’m sitting on the balcony of the hostel in the warm night air. It’s been a long, full day, and our first with the Compassion project here. We started the day with meeting all of the primary school age kids at the project partnered with Life Church. They…
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Flying to Palawan, days 2 and 3 recap
Well, we made it to Palawan. We actually arrived on Saturday and it is now technically Monday morning, but our time has been packed and Internet is slow. The flight from Manila to Palawan was delayed a little, so we got to fly over the Philippine Sea at sunset. The view was breathtaking, looking out…
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Philippines, Day 1
It’s morning in Manila. Last night I skipped ahead to Friday, landing in the Philippines after leaving Hawaii around lunch on Wednesday and then having a brief layover in Guam. I didn’t see much of Guam because it was via the plan windows or from the airport, but the island is beautiful, with green hills…
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Philippines: Looking Back
Today was the day the youth presented their experiences from the mission trips to the “stockholders” that invested in the trips. Without support, most of us couldn’t have gone. There were some good stories told by the kids, and a couple of great videos of our time there (I’m trying to get copies for you)…
Joanna Volavka 