Christmas in Bataan and Surfing and New Years in La Union
Happy Holidays to all my friends an family back home. Despite the overzealous christmas decorations and pop-music christmas carols, that start in September mind you, …
16 Dec
CALATAGANDA – How to relax in Calatagan, Batangas
CALATAGANDA – How to relax in Calatagan, Batangas
A starting motor startled me awake, I lifted my head to see the orange sunrise cresting over the mangroves, chasing away the black night sky. …
16 Dec
Comic Strips for Solid Waste Management
Comic Strips for Solid Waste Management
Calatagan, Batangas has efficient and effective programs for coastal resource management. I spent my weekend near a dense mangrove forest just a couple hundred meters …
16 Dec
#AlDub a Philippine Phenomenon
#AlDub a Philippine Phenomenon
I finally regained access to my blog after several months of being locked out from the Middlebury server. Wrote this back in October, more “new” …
12 Sep
Site transfer
Site transfer
Sadly, due to circumstances out of my control, I recently packed up my belongings in Pandan, Antique. Surprisingly, many volunteers experience a site transfer during …
28 Aug
Kitty and Lulu’s Adventures in the Philippines!
Kitty and Lulu’s Adventures in the Philippines!
Katie arrived to Manila late on Saturday July 18, 2015. I picked her up at NAIA Terminal 1, the notoriously horrible Manila Airport ranked as …
26 Jun
I promised
I promised
I promised to sit down and write a reflection about Manila. About what I saw, as I had never seen poverty the way I have …
24 Jun
Teaching Safe Sex in the Philippines
Teaching Safe Sex in the Philippines
Discussions of sex, albeit safe sex practices, in the Philippines are taboo. This is the case in many conservative countries, even in the United States …
11 Jun
Is it really June?
Is it really June?
Maintaining a blog isn’t easy! Granted, unreliable internet connection contributes to that problem. However, the stall in updates has come about because I have simply …
23 Apr
Earth Day in the Philippines
Earth Day in the Philippines
Ronald Sanchez, the Municipal Agricultural Officer (my boss), adding his signature Our Tarpaulin (we called it a “plea for action”) There is one day of the year …