Wednesday, August 26, 2009

phriendly phaces of the philippines

you may wonder if i'm posting all these photos because i'm showing off. you're absolutely right. i'm trying to make you jealous so that you'll be tricked-- i mean want to vacation with me next time. you're feeling veeeeeerrrrry sleepy...

this is completely just to show that my life isn't all vacation. 8 days in manila teaching on team building, spiritual disciplines, character development and luke for SP's GUTS (global urban training school). our training base in quezon city.ema and zach, staff in manila (zach by default because he's pretty useless at this point. kids! pffftt!)claire and her mom cora. claire is serenading me with a song she wrote when her family was going through uncertain times, like when their house was almost washed away by flashfloods. ate cora is the sweetest, most faithful woman. i stayed a friend of a friend's house in salvacion on the island of palawan. her family's second house is on a brackish inlet of the south china sea flanked by mangrove trees.could you imagine a more beautiful sunset?the subterranean river! you take a little boat into a deep cave for about 1.5km and marvel at the rock formations that look like corn and the holy family and a "sexy lady" called sharon stone. just don't open your mouth - you may get pooped on by one of the thousands of bats. one did its dirty business on my hand. i'll never wash this hand again...giant limestone formations jutting above verdant rice paddy fields. this pic doesn't do the green justice. so, did i succeed? are you coming with me next time?

1 comments:

Lexie said...

not unless you wash that hand.