So I have a day left in my home stay. The reason why I can reach out over the internet now is that I'm hanging out in Al's room at the Bethel Guest House in Dumaguete for a few hours. At 1:30pm we're supposed to be meeting for a surprise birthday party for one of the girls in our group from GMU so I came into Dumaguete a little early.
So the neighborhood myself and three other Mason students are in is called Cantil-e (2 in upper and 2 in lower). It would seem that our home stay is slightly different than the ones last year since, at least for our two groups, we, and out Silliman University partners, are in the same homes. So our two groups of three are in two houses, one in Upper Cantil-e and another in Lower Cantil-e. It's a rural community with a combination of farming and pennycab (spelling?) and multicab drivers. The home I've been staying in (tonight is my last night there) is in Lower Cantil-e, lacks power and has a single source of running water. They're nice people. My host father is a multicab driver so he's gone most of the day and we have the mother and an aunt living in the house in addition to six children with ages ranging from 20 years to 5 months. Our neighbors are some cousins and an aunt.
Just took a break from typing to shower and you have no idea how good that felt. Anyway... we also did quite a few things (aside from watching a little Wowowee at another house, ranging from learning how to washing clothes, planting corn, harvesting (and cooking) cassava, some words of Visaya, Muay Thai (seriously, our host family can so beat up the other host families), and the local milk processing system.
This photo upload is taking too long... they'll probably be up... not soon.
So yeah. Oh and when we arrived at Dumaguete we did stuff too. Like watching dolphins, swimming in a huge waterfall, etc. the usual.
Anyway... have to go soonish so later peoples.
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