Philippines Continued

Wednesday - July 14

- 8:30 am breakfast at beach resort (toast, eggs, OJ, ham)
- Visit Chocolate Hills, Blood Compact Statue, Old Catholic Church, Tarsier monkies, Giant 26' python snake, Bamboo Suspension bridge over a river
- Fajitas and mango ice cream with mango pie at Garden Cafe (hires blind waitors and waitresses) for dinner and dessert
- Walk beach
- 9-10 pm group devotions (Sovereingty of God)
- 10 pm bedtime

Thursday

- Wake up at 5:30 am with plans to go on a boat on the ocean to watch dolphins, snorkel, and island hopbut too windy so we hiked the beach and took a nap
- 7:30 am breakfast at beach resort (pancakes with syrup and ham)
- Talk to a visitor at the hotel who we gave a Bible to b/c he was interested and asked for one. Pray that he would find a church and come to know God and share with his family. He is a traffic enforcer and manages a band in Manila that once played with the Black Eyed Peas. We may meet up with him in Manila.
- Walk on beach and cliffs along the shore
- Lunch at Trudis on the beach (seafood curry, garlic rice, mango crepe)
- Snorkeling on ocean surf out to the ocean shelf (very cloudy and wavy snorkeling but fun)
- Kayaking on ocean waves 3-4 pm
- Build sand castle
- 7 pm dinner provided by the beach resort that we were staying at b/c the host missionaries who brought us there had stayed there a few times before. This offering is called Sanpagita in Tagalog. Shrimp, rice, beef, mango, veggie stew, lumpia (like an egg roll) for dinner.
- 8:30 pm devotions with group in hotel room
- Stories from host missionaries
- 10 pm bedtime

Friday

- Wake up 5:30 am
- 6 am get on boat to go dolphin watching, snorkeling, and visit Vrigen Island
- Peanut butter and jelly and snacks on boat for breakfast and lunch
- 2 pm arrive back at hotel from our water adventures
- 2-4:30 pm read a cultural missionary book
- walk along beach
- Dinner at Trudis on the beach (chicken curry, garlic rice, fried bannanas, mango-bananna shake)
- 7-8:30 pm devos in hotel room with group on cultural missionary issues
- 8:30-11 pm hang out at Trudis resturant on the beach and hang out with group while listening to a live band
- 11:30 pm bedtime

Saturday

- 8:45 am pancakes and ham at beach resort for breakfast
- hang out at beach
- leave beach resort at 11:30 am for airport
- 1:55 pm flight back to Manila
- 4 pm arrival in Manila
- Prepare HIV/AIDS presentation for church tomorrow in Las Pinas
- Dinner at host missionaries house ( spaghette, pineapple, salad, papaya)
- 10 pm arrival at new place of stay in Laguna

Sunday

- breakfast 7 am (rice, eggs, meatloaf, noni health fruit drink, papaya with calamunsi, potato rolls with guava jelly, and mini bannanas)
- church at God's Light International Ministries in Las Pinas where we worshipped, ate lunch (spaghetti, rice, spicy fish and veggies, BBQ), and gave an HIV/AIDS presentation to the youth of the church and hung out with the youth and worshipped with them
- drove back to Los Banos
- made posters for HIV/AIDS school presentation tomorrow
- 7:30 pm dinner at guest house where we are now staying (noodle salad, biscuits, cake)
- Talk about Noni fruit health drink with guest house owner who helped commercialize noni in the Philippines
- 9-10:30 pm devos with group
- 11 pm bedtime

Monday

- Breakfast at guest house (rice, eggs, yellow watermelon, dragon fruit, rolls with guava jelly)
- 3 1.5-2 hour HIV/AIDS presentations at a local national high school 8 am-4:30 pm with a lunch break (beef, rice, and iced tea) at University of Philippines campus cafeteria
- 4:30 pm Ice Cream Sundae's and cake for a local peer educators birthday who was presenting with us at the school at McDonald's
- 5:30 pm-> hang out at host missionaries house and catch up on internet stuff