Motorbikes, Giant Snakes, and Life.

OK, so we're back from Bohol. We were just there on a vacation type deal. So we were at a beach most of the time. We were there for four days. It was the first time I've ever been in salt water, so that was pretty cool, and we went snorkeling which I've never done before either and it was amazing.

So we got back on Saturday and now we're staying all together, not with host families anymore. We are staying at a place called Contiloo's which is owned by this really nice family which mostly consists of older ladies, like in their 70's. They are the nicest ladies ever! I want to be just like them when I'm older :) On Saturday when we got back, we went to Ate Gladys's house and then Nicole and I went with Ate Gladys to get food supplies. We also got a Toblerone. Nicole made me add that (she is reading this) because we always get a Toblerone. And they package it well enough that we could ship it to Canada if we wanted. So then Nicole & I cooked a dinner of spaghetti for everyone! It was really fun haha. We are great in the kitchen. We are becoming domestic goddesses. It is our goal.

On Sunday, we went to a city called Las Pinas and attended a CRC church there called "God's Light International Ministries". We did a short presentation during the service, including pictures, about what we're doing here in the Philippines. Then afterward, we had this huge lunch and there was a youth fellowship so we did our HIV/AIDS presentation for them which went really well then spent like 2 hours talking with them. It was pretty fun! Then we came back home and headed to LBCRC to help make more posters for our presentations which were occurring in LB National High School on Monday because we had a lot of youth from LBCRC helping so we decided to split into two groups to reach more students that way.

So today we did 5 presentations at LBNHS which went really well. It was really long though. I'm not really sure what we're doing for the rest of the week. I believe we are going to Manila tomorrow to Kids International Ministries which is an orphanage.

I don't really have many more stories to tell! Well, in Bohol then Nicole, Lisa, and I rented motorbikes one day and rode all around the island for 4 hours. Also, in Bohol we saw tarsiers which are this weird monkey thing. Google image it. We also saw in Bohol and 26 foot long python. Some person told us that it was hibernating, so we went and touched it and got pictures of us touching it and then it moved a bit and I like freaked out and ran away haha. And we asked the person how much it ate, and the person said that the last time it ate was the beginning of June and it ate 2 goats at that time! Pretty nuts. It was in captivity by the way Mom haha.

Oh, another story. Ok so on the morning that we were leaving, we were going to leave at 10:30 a.m. so then we were reading on the beach for awhile and a little boy came over who was very dirty and was only wearing a shirt haha, and he came close to us so then Nicole and I showed him our books. He was really really interested in the books, but they didn't have pictures, only the cover so he just kept looking at my cover, then at Nicole's, then back to mine over and over. So then a couple of days before this, Nicole and I had bought Tagalog children's books from a bookstore because we love Tagalog haha...so then I told Nicole to keep him occupied and I ran to my room and got my book which was called "Mahal Kita, Inay" which means "I love you, Mom" so then we read it to him 3 times and he was just enthralled, it was adorable! He loved the pictures and kept pointing, but never said a word and never smiled. He would just look really really close at the book. But he held my hand which was so cute. And then we had to leave, and so I gave him the book, and a fisherman came and told us he only had a mother, no father. So it just broke my heart!! I wanted to take him home haha. So yeah, that's my story.

Ok, we are going to go back to our place where we are staying now....I am at an internet cafe right now; I don't have internet where we are staying. I'll try to come back here soon and write again!