Lol, whats up everyone. This week we experienced New Years in the Philippines, which was a little crazy (as expected). We live close to the crossing road to Baguio so there was really bad traffic to get around. Fireworks going off all day, little kids making fires and lighting things off. Everyone doing Karaoke and drinking all day. Really funny. All the teenage girls here are obsessed with the Korean culture, and they all practice their dances to their songs. Its hilarious. My comp always tells them hes from Korea lol.
So New Years eve I ate Balot again at a members house during dinner. It was pretty nasty but I didn't throw up so that was good. Besides that the food here is incredible, I'm really starting to like it. Except for the snacks, all their snacks are just cheesy something or buttery something, but all fake stuff. Sometimes when we are eating rice and some kind of meat, its better just to not ask what it is, because its better not knowing. That night we had a curfew of 7 but might've stayed up to watch some fireworks, but our house is covered by tons of tress so we couldn't see like any fireworks. Just light in the distance, so that kinda sucked.
Anyway after New years day, things kinda got quieter around here, we really struggled to find and teach people that were interested. But its slowly picking up.
Everyone keeps staring at me everywhere we go, so that gets a little old, some people come up to me just to say some English words, like "I love you", or "Hey brother what is your name"
On Wednesday we waxed a school floor, all the chairs in there said "donated by lds charities" so that was really cool, the school didn't have very much. I love doing any kind of service here, usually people are too nice to ask for help with things, so its hard to find service opportunities. I'm really happy to be here in the Peens, I've learned so much from people I meet, studying the scriptures and following the spirit. Things I didn't do back at home. Miss all of you!
Mahal ko kayo,
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