Tag: pictures
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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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Many meetings in Manila (recap of Day 1)
Friday was such a full day I don’t know quite where to begin. Between jetlag and culture adjustment, I think I’m doing pretty well. It’s interesting to be here for a second time. Things aren’t overwhelming, and I can notice things more specifically. I recognize a few places we visited two year ago, which is…
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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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Hawaii, revisited
This week I’m back in Hawaii, visiting friends and generally soaking up sun that I’ve been missing for the last eight months. Next week I leave for the Philippines and a very different trip; this week is about relaxing and enjoying good company. I don’t actually have much to report. The island is the same,…
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San Francisco and the Muir Woods
The day after our visit to Monterey, J and I continued up the coast to San Francisco. Since we were so close and we’d both always wanted to visit, we couldn’t resist. We picked a destination (the Muir Woods, but I’ll get to that next) and headed north. In less than two hours, we found…
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