Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Left-Bob, Back-a boy, Right-Neza, a sixteen year old girl who spent some time trying to teach me Kalanguya and Tagalog, wondering how I got so tall, and telling me jokes. For example, if your in an elevator and you have to toot, what do you do? The answer is that you ask someone for their cell phone tone, which makes a lot of sense in the Philippines because everyone has a cell phone. Because there are only ten grades in the Philippines (not 12), she just graduated from high school.
This is one of the outhouses in the village Kalanguya of Nansiakan. Of course, there's no bathrooms inside of the houses and huts. To flush the toilet, you just pour a small bucket of water into it. To take a shower, fill the blue bucket, and use a small bucket or pitcher to pour water over your head. It actually works so well that many Filipinos, when they go to a place that has a shower, will use buckets instead.
Monday, May 30, 2005
On the right is Bob. On the left is his friend from undergraduate school who has lukemia and recently had his leg amputated. His aunt owns this abandoned resort. Of course that's me in the middle. We ate adobo, fish, a noodle dish, and rice with our fingers, a common practice in the Philippines. Then we ate a Buko pie, a sticky rice cake made with coconut.
I got to visit the provincial capital for the Neuva Viscaya Festival. These are huts representing the different parts of Nueva Viscaya. The one with the blue tarp in front is Kayapa, which is the region I visited when I went to the village. One of Bob's nieces was working there. The festival lasts for about one week. They used to have a gay beauty pagent, but the Christians protested and had it changed into an evangelistic night.
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Wandering Around the Philippines
For anyone who might be wondering why I haven't been blogging for several days now, I hopped on a bus last week with a Philipino friend from AGS where I'll be studying and a missionary from America. After 6 1/2 hours on the bus, I fond myself in the town of B. Then we took a trycicle, that's a motorcycle with a passenger thing attached to the side), to a missionary compound where some relatives of my Philipino friend stay. He and two of his nieces are working on finishing a translation of the Bible for their tribe. After several days at the compound, a missionary from Australia (who's last name was given to my friend in an attempt to get the spirits to leave him alone), drove us up a very steep, bumpy mountain road on the side of a cliff. It took two very bumpy hours to get to his village, which was the most beautiful place I have ever seen. After a three day conference, we went bumping back down the mountain. The next day we travelled by jeepneys to the town, and went to the SIL center located there. Now I'm staying in a dormitory with about 12 Philipino Mother Tongue Translators (MTT's) from various tribes who are attending the workshop here in order to check their translation of I Samule 16 to the end of that book. The workshop lasts until May 27. After that, I'll either hang around to see the dedicatin of a new Bible translation, or I'll head back to Manila after visiting a couple other places.
Monday, May 09, 2005
I shot a couple of Jeepney's, a very common mode of transportation here. You can signal that you need a ride by raising your hand toward the street if the Jeepney is going down the street. Then you squish into the back (there are benches lining the wall, and you sit knee to knee in the back). To stop, you say "para".
Sunday, May 08, 2005
Monday, May 02, 2005
Sunday, May 01, 2005
I had my graduation/going away party today(April 30) at my Dad's house in the valley of the Spokane Valley. We had yellow and blue corn chips, homemade salsa, refried beans, jasmine rice, chicken enchladas, carrot-orange juice (I made it with my juicer), and strawberry shortcake on Grandma Nedrow's homemade biscuits. Several of my aunts, uncles, and cousins came from central Washington and the Seattle area. My good friend from high school, Praise, also came.
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