Monday, July 20, 2009
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
- 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
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Philippines Continued
- Breakfast
- Courtesy call to mayor
- Visit a high school to ask for last minute approval to do an HIV/AIDS presentation the next day - got approval
- planted rice, rode a carabaou
- Lunch and yummy butter and sugar covered pancakes
- visit tribal community where we talked with the people through an interpretor and sang songs
- rode a boat and went fishing by catching fish from fish nets with our hands
- dinnner
- devos
Thursday
- 7 am breakfast at a resturant across the street from our hotel (rice, eggs, lettuce salad, and milo choco drink)
- 8:30 am presentation to 140 4th year students at a high school on HIV/AIDS
- Lunch at MCM resturant with bannana shakes, beef, chop suey, rice, cake, ice cream
- Travel to IVCF meeting
- 5-8:45 pm HIV/AIDS presentation and worship time with IVCF college student ministry
- Travel back to Laguna until 2:15 am until we found a roadside hotel to rest at
Friday
- 8 am wake up to continue travel to Laguna
- Breakfast at Chow King (Beef suey)
- Travel
- Lunch at Pizza Hut (Lasgna pizza, cheeseburger pizza with cheese volcano crust)
- 4:30 pm arrive in Laguna at host families house
- Play with 2 year old boy that my host family takes care of
- John Calvin's 500th birthday celebration service 7-10 pm
- 11 pm bedtime
Saturday
- 9:30 am breakfast at host families (rice, meatloaf, cheese bread)
- 10:30 am go to church to prepare all day for tomorrow's 20th anniversary celebration of the church (decorations, snacks, band practice, hanging out) unitl 9:30 pm
- rice, pork, tofu for dinner at host families
- 10 pm watch Monsters vs. Aliens movie with host family siblings
- Midnight bedtime
Sunday
- 10 am breakfast (rice, sausage, eggs, tomatoes)
- Play with 2 year old in host family
- Download camera photos
- Lunch (rice and blue marlin)
- 1 pm host family church's 20th anniversary celebration service (singing, message, people from surrounding CRC's come) (spaghetti and rice cake snack)
- Travel to University of Philippines campus with host family siblings for a chicken feet snack and to walk around and hang out
- 8 pm dinner at host family's house (rice cakes, rice, lettuce, pork)
- Watch "pursuit of happiness" with host family siblings
- 11:30 pm bedtime
Monday
- 7:30 am rice and smoked fish and rice cakes for breafast
- 9 am - Noon HIV/AIDS practice with local youth at LBCRC (presentation cancelled at school b/c no school for students b/c of swine flu)
- Rice and chicken for lunch at IRRI (rice research institutue
- Tour IRRI rice museum
- 6-9 pm class with Reformed Missionary Academy taught by host missionary
- pack for Bohol
- 11:30 pm bedtime
Tuesday
- 7 am rice and chicken for breakfast
- 8 am leave for Manila to fly to Bohol
- Noon flight to Bohol
- 1 pm arrival in Bohol
- Travel to resort on beach
- 4-6 pm snorkeling off the beach
- 6:30 pm dinner on beach (seafood curry, trudis delight (pancake and ice cream with choco syrup), garlic rice)
- 8 pm devos in hotel room with group
- 10 pm walk along beach, listen to live band on beach, and talk to some locals who run a diving boat
- Midnight bedtime
Wednesday - July 14
- 8:30 am breakfast at hotel (toast, eggs, OJ, ham)
- Tour Choco Hills, bamboo bridge, old catholic church, tarsier monkey
- Courtesy call to mayor
- Visit a high school to ask for last minute approval to do an HIV/AIDS presentation the next day - got approval
- planted rice, rode a carabaou
- Lunch and yummy butter and sugar covered pancakes
- visit tribal community where we talked with the people through an interpretor and sang songs
- rode a boat and went fishing by catching fish from fish nets with our hands
- dinnner
- devos
Thursday
- 7 am breakfast at a resturant across the street from our hotel (rice, eggs, lettuce salad, and milo choco drink)
- 8:30 am presentation to 140 4th year students at a high school on HIV/AIDS
- Lunch at MCM resturant with bannana shakes, beef, chop suey, rice, cake, ice cream
- Travel to IVCF meeting
- 5-8:45 pm HIV/AIDS presentation and worship time with IVCF college student ministry
- Travel back to Laguna until 2:15 am until we found a roadside hotel to rest at
Friday
- 8 am wake up to continue travel to Laguna
- Breakfast at Chow King (Beef suey)
- Travel
- Lunch at Pizza Hut (Lasgna pizza, cheeseburger pizza with cheese volcano crust)
- 4:30 pm arrive in Laguna at host families house
- Play with 2 year old boy that my host family takes care of
- John Calvin's 500th birthday celebration service 7-10 pm
- 11 pm bedtime
Saturday
- 9:30 am breakfast at host families (rice, meatloaf, cheese bread)
- 10:30 am go to church to prepare all day for tomorrow's 20th anniversary celebration of the church (decorations, snacks, band practice, hanging out) unitl 9:30 pm
- rice, pork, tofu for dinner at host families
- 10 pm watch Monsters vs. Aliens movie with host family siblings
- Midnight bedtime
Sunday
- 10 am breakfast (rice, sausage, eggs, tomatoes)
- Play with 2 year old in host family
- Download camera photos
- Lunch (rice and blue marlin)
- 1 pm host family church's 20th anniversary celebration service (singing, message, people from surrounding CRC's come) (spaghetti and rice cake snack)
- Travel to University of Philippines campus with host family siblings for a chicken feet snack and to walk around and hang out
- 8 pm dinner at host family's house (rice cakes, rice, lettuce, pork)
- Watch "pursuit of happiness" with host family siblings
- 11:30 pm bedtime
Monday
- 7:30 am rice and smoked fish and rice cakes for breafast
- 9 am - Noon HIV/AIDS practice with local youth at LBCRC (presentation cancelled at school b/c no school for students b/c of swine flu)
- Rice and chicken for lunch at IRRI (rice research institutue
- Tour IRRI rice museum
- 6-9 pm class with Reformed Missionary Academy taught by host missionary
- pack for Bohol
- 11:30 pm bedtime
Tuesday
- 7 am rice and chicken for breakfast
- 8 am leave for Manila to fly to Bohol
- Noon flight to Bohol
- 1 pm arrival in Bohol
- Travel to resort on beach
- 4-6 pm snorkeling off the beach
- 6:30 pm dinner on beach (seafood curry, trudis delight (pancake and ice cream with choco syrup), garlic rice)
- 8 pm devos in hotel room with group
- 10 pm walk along beach, listen to live band on beach, and talk to some locals who run a diving boat
- Midnight bedtime
Wednesday - July 14
- 8:30 am breakfast at hotel (toast, eggs, OJ, ham)
- Tour Choco Hills, bamboo bridge, old catholic church, tarsier monkey
Monday, July 13, 2009
Philippines Continued
Monday - July 6
- Breakfast at hotel (pancakes and cereal)
- Visit with Legasbi City mayor and health officer to talk about HIV/AIDS presentations that we are doing
- 9 am HIV/AIDS presentation to Legasbi and other local pastors and church people
- Rice, chop suey, bannana muffins for lunch at Ate Styles
- Travel to Iriga City
Tuesday (written by Kelly)
Today was basically my most favorite day ever!! We ate breakfast here at our hotel in Naga City and then just chilled until later on. We met Ate Eisha for lunch and then paid a courtesy call to the mayor. After the mayor we went to the dairy and got some milk and milk bars that were ube flavored. We did a presentation at Hope Christian school. Then we went wakeboarding, knee boarding, and water skiing on a cable driven system!!!
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Philippines Continued
Saturday - July 4
- relaxed morning at hotel (van ac getting fixed)
- Casaga ruins
- Hala Hala and chicken teryaki at Bigg's Diner for lunch
- Hike up Lignon Hill in a surprise thunder storm
- Dinner at local resturant with missionary stories from host missionary
- Van broke down
- 11:30 pm bedtime
Sunday
- 9 am church at Victory Christian Fellowship
- Meet 18 students at church from Britian who at working with a street kid's ministry for 3 weeks
- Picnic lunch at black sand beach
- 4-7 pm watch Britian student's street kid church service
- 8 pm dinner at a local friends house (mango shakes, chiken pesto, garlic bread, brownies)
- 11 pm bedtime
- relaxed morning at hotel (van ac getting fixed)
- Casaga ruins
- Hala Hala and chicken teryaki at Bigg's Diner for lunch
- Hike up Lignon Hill in a surprise thunder storm
- Dinner at local resturant with missionary stories from host missionary
- Van broke down
- 11:30 pm bedtime
Sunday
- 9 am church at Victory Christian Fellowship
- Meet 18 students at church from Britian who at working with a street kid's ministry for 3 weeks
- Picnic lunch at black sand beach
- 4-7 pm watch Britian student's street kid church service
- 8 pm dinner at a local friends house (mango shakes, chiken pesto, garlic bread, brownies)
- 11 pm bedtime
Philippines continued
Saturday - June 27
- 7 am arrive home to host family's house from an all night Karaoke and swimming party at a private hot spring pool
- Sleep until 2 pm
- Pork and rice for lunch
-Shopping at Supermarket for making dinner tomorrow with one of my host brothers (pork, potatoes, dried mangos - P500)
- P20 expense to use internet in mall
- 4:30 - 6 pm hang out at home and pack for Bicol
- 6 pm band practice at church
- Watch movie - Alvin and the Chipmunks
- 10:30 pm bedtime
Sunday
- 6 am rice, eggs, sausage for breakfast
- 8 am Sunday School
- 9 - 11 am church
- noon-1 pm nap
- 1-2 pm run and play B-ball with neighborhood kids
- 3:30 - 7 pm Transformer's II at the mall with Los Banos CRC youth
- Pancit (noodles and rice) for dinner
- 9 pm bedtime
Monday
- 8 am HIV/AIDS prsentation at Pila National High School
- Lunch at Pila Delight
- Internet
- Cook for group at host families house with host brother
- Dinner with group (brown sugar and cinnamon bannanas, pork and sauce, rice, pastries, french fries, dried mangos)
Tuesday
- 4 am wake up to travel to Bicol
- 8 am hike up a mountain in a national forest where we could see both the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea - noon
- 7 pm arrival in Bicol
- 7-9 pm group devos
- 9 pm bedtime
Wednesday
- Meet with a baranguay (town) leader = "courtest call" - pay respect to authorities
- Visit a puto stand to see how it is made ( a rice snack)
- Lunch at Jollibee
- Stories from people in baranguay who formed a co-op from which they can take loans
- Hike up to a pineapple farm
- Ice cream at Jollibee
- Meet families who have kids being helped by Compassion International
- Visit hospital for a rash that I developed - all is well - got a free check up b/c the doctor was a Christian at the private hospital we visited. The doc flew to Manila every weekend to go to church
- Rice and chicken for dinner at hotel
- Sing hymns
- Group devos
- 10 pm bedtime
Thursday
- 8 am rice cakes, bannanas, peanut butter, hot cocoa, bread for breakfast
- Attend livelihood workshop on making soap and jewelry
- Spaghetti for lunch at Jollibee (local fast food)
- Visit a pre-school with 100 kids started by a family
- HIV/AIDS presentation to pastors in Bicol
- Travel to Legasbi
- 10 pm bedtime
Friday
- 9 am breakfast at Dunkin' Donuts
- Visit Intervarsity Christian Fellowship leader - arrange future HIV/AIDS workshops
- Drop off laundry
- Visit governor's office where greeted by a provicial health doc
- Visit Mayor's office for a courtesy call
- Lunch at Bigg's Diner (pizza and carrot pineapple shake)
- Run errands at mall
- Dinner at hotel
- Hang out and devos
- 11 pm bedtime
- 7 am arrive home to host family's house from an all night Karaoke and swimming party at a private hot spring pool
- Sleep until 2 pm
- Pork and rice for lunch
-Shopping at Supermarket for making dinner tomorrow with one of my host brothers (pork, potatoes, dried mangos - P500)
- P20 expense to use internet in mall
- 4:30 - 6 pm hang out at home and pack for Bicol
- 6 pm band practice at church
- Watch movie - Alvin and the Chipmunks
- 10:30 pm bedtime
Sunday
- 6 am rice, eggs, sausage for breakfast
- 8 am Sunday School
- 9 - 11 am church
- noon-1 pm nap
- 1-2 pm run and play B-ball with neighborhood kids
- 3:30 - 7 pm Transformer's II at the mall with Los Banos CRC youth
- Pancit (noodles and rice) for dinner
- 9 pm bedtime
Monday
- 8 am HIV/AIDS prsentation at Pila National High School
- Lunch at Pila Delight
- Internet
- Cook for group at host families house with host brother
- Dinner with group (brown sugar and cinnamon bannanas, pork and sauce, rice, pastries, french fries, dried mangos)
Tuesday
- 4 am wake up to travel to Bicol
- 8 am hike up a mountain in a national forest where we could see both the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea - noon
- 7 pm arrival in Bicol
- 7-9 pm group devos
- 9 pm bedtime
Wednesday
- Meet with a baranguay (town) leader = "courtest call" - pay respect to authorities
- Visit a puto stand to see how it is made ( a rice snack)
- Lunch at Jollibee
- Stories from people in baranguay who formed a co-op from which they can take loans
- Hike up to a pineapple farm
- Ice cream at Jollibee
- Meet families who have kids being helped by Compassion International
- Visit hospital for a rash that I developed - all is well - got a free check up b/c the doctor was a Christian at the private hospital we visited. The doc flew to Manila every weekend to go to church
- Rice and chicken for dinner at hotel
- Sing hymns
- Group devos
- 10 pm bedtime
Thursday
- 8 am rice cakes, bannanas, peanut butter, hot cocoa, bread for breakfast
- Attend livelihood workshop on making soap and jewelry
- Spaghetti for lunch at Jollibee (local fast food)
- Visit a pre-school with 100 kids started by a family
- HIV/AIDS presentation to pastors in Bicol
- Travel to Legasbi
- 10 pm bedtime
Friday
- 9 am breakfast at Dunkin' Donuts
- Visit Intervarsity Christian Fellowship leader - arrange future HIV/AIDS workshops
- Drop off laundry
- Visit governor's office where greeted by a provicial health doc
- Visit Mayor's office for a courtesy call
- Lunch at Bigg's Diner (pizza and carrot pineapple shake)
- Run errands at mall
- Dinner at hotel
- Hang out and devos
- 11 pm bedtime
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