my first day!

ok so kristin (my oldest sister for those of you who don't know) really wants me to blog so here goes. It's hard because I'm just on an iPod touch so it's slow going. Our first day here was super fun though! We got to los banos at 2 this morning. It was about 1.5 hours from the airport. We are in a hotel place on the campus of the university of the Philippines which is beautiful. Not as beautiful as Calvin though(ps mom and dad, I want to go there) so yeah we woke up around 12 and met up with a girl named Lem and her husband and went to Lem's family's restaurant for lunch then went on some jeepneys which are these super cool vehicles where you just jump in the back... And yeah then we went on this trolley thing on an old railroad that was pushed by some guys. The land around the tracks is government land so there are lots of homes along the track and the only way to get there is the trolleys. Then we toured this rice farm place. The people here are so incredibly friendly and they treat us like celebrities. On the main street every jeepney honks its horn at us and they're all waving and saying hello. They all stare a lot too. So yeah then we left Lem and decided to play frisbee in the big park called freedom park and while we were playing some guys invited us to play ultimate frisbee with them which was really fun. Then some of them showed us this local restaurant type place which was really yummy and cheap. THEN we got CHEESE ice cream for dessert!!! It was crazy haha. So that was my first day here! Tomorrow our host families are picking us up at around 10 I think. Hopefully they will have Internet. So this has taken me a really long time and I am exhausted so I'm going to bed!