After hiking down for several hours, someone offered us a trycicle ride back to CFM

'AGS Family' Camp, December 14-16, 2006 in Rizal, Laguna

Bob in a tree

I'll finish posting these pictures of the "AGS Family Camp" later, I hope before next year.

table tennis

all you can eat food 3x per day

Rizal Re-creation center is run by an American missionary couple, and most of the food was American. I think they should serve Filipino food.

games

an ugly monkey

Group Picture:AGS Family Camp

ALP students at the AGS Family Camp

Bob and others

King Yuki

Dalmas, me, Lillian, and Ali

Rizal Re-Creation Center Grounds

Ducks and Geese and Chess

The World's Largest Top

The Mall of Asia in Manila

we watched the sun set over the bay of Manila behind the Mall of Asia

Bob with Mexican food (but the quality of the food was very bad)

lunch

I often buy my lunch in the cafeteria ("canteen") for between about .40 and .60 cents. This was .60 cents. The food is usually not hot, but they have very hot peppers avaliable.

Time is like a river...you can't step on the same water twice because the flow that has passed will never pass you again. Cherish every moment of your life...stay happy!!

Speech Analyzer

I've been spending hours recording and transcribing Kalanguya in IPA (the International Phonetic Alphabet) with the help of the Speech Analyzer program from SIL.

Thanksgiving Dinner!!!

One of the program directors at AGS, a woman from the USA, invited all of the international students to her very nice, large house in Antipolo, about 1 1/2 hours from AGS, on Saturday. We had turkey, stuffing, candied yams, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy, rolls, pumpkin pie, and various other things. We even had chips and raw vegetables with hummos to snack on. I'm not sure how she came up with all that stuff cause I don't think it's easy to find Thanksgiving food here. I think between 10-15 of the international students came, as well as some of the Gunderson's family and friends.

Thanksgiving Dinner-we ate all afternoon!

the Turkey-these are very expensive and hard to find in the Philippines