Pt. Ish for lunch

Quezon province with ate Emily (Pt. Gilbert's wife)
Villa Escudero.

2 hour drive

Museum, Lola Charing, Carabao ride (serenaded), Lake rafts, fishing (no fish...sneaky), Swimming, Lunch with our feet in the water and waterfall splashing on our backs...crazy experience, cultural performance, traffic jam.

Great gatsby, dinner with Sophie and Angie...steak, no rice...conversation turned to most horrible ways to die. I quote Angie: cuddled to death by teddies or having eaten so many Big Macs that you pop

San Pedro

The first thing she warned me of...I don't speak English son.

Secondly...it's because I'm from a poor background ya see

Thirdly...not easy growing up in an area like that...

Fourthly....I heard her life story for practically 15 minutes. 15 minutes!!!

Fifthly...so as I said. Not much Tagalog. Nosebleed.

Running at 5am in San Jose

Party for John T and Virgie engagement, birthday party and an early leaving party for the 3 visitors...they're trying to get rid of us early...3 birds with one stone

2 glasses smashed

Bye JT, hello Ethan. American and Englishman living under one roof. Debates over best country every night

Street outreach - Anthony solis

Slum visits - really hit home this time

Tagalog devotion

GMA attendee: Evangelism & Doctrine of Man and Sin, Evangelism, Revelation, Christian Ethics. ...Assignments

Boys home, no more K. Scott. Helping out a bit more

Tagaytay - Taal Volcano (active), Naughty tour guide, People's Park view (giant pineapple, bought pineapples)

Lost voice, ear infection

All you can eat

Drop in recommences Young boy, Paulo died from drop in. Hit by tricycle.

Staff devotion on Taming the Tongue.

Removed speed bumps

Caused a car crash in filinvest

Swimming Boys Home

After Palawan I started to miss home, but not England...Cubao

Street Party in Harvard. Most beautiful gay man.

One boy I see every day had been dressed up in a dress and make up by his mother in

order to get the participation complimentary prize of 200 pesos (£3)

Major identity crisis. People are becoming desensitized to the wrong nature of this...nakakatakot or nakakatawa?

Pastor Mcadam for dinner

Pastor Mon for lunch

Interview with K. Xander: "Let's start of easy: 'How old are you?'
'See that's difficult, because my birth certificate says I would be 27 now, but it was dated a year ahead of the real date, so I'm pretty surre that would make me 28.'
I sat there open-mouthed. This was going to be a tough interview!

Drop in Children Talk

Saldivar

SGCC, K. Louie's again

Montalban Bible Study

Basketball

v Nothing like a sweetcorn stall to bring out the prehistoric dog-eat-dog nature in a person.

One thing I've noticed about the security guards here in the Philippines is they basically do everything other than police work. The other day I was in KFC, I'd finished eating and the moment I stood up the security guard came over clearing my tray, wiping down the table and then resumed his high-profile job of opening and closing the doors for every customer. All the while a terrifying sawn-off shotgun rests gently around his neck and a pistol sits in a holster on his side. Is this really necessary? In KFC of all places. Although I guess it's best to just take precautions because we well know that the chicken in KFC has a habit of resurrecting out the cooker as a last chance escape from being battered in bread crumbs. Put the guns down Filipino police!!