one million things

...give or take.

things to do in the philippines

Cebu:
-learn about history
-break your heart
-cry over poverty
-give away mangoes
-make new friends

Bantayan:
-finally eat good food
-steal a motorbike ride
-make new friends
-steal a tricycle
-despise colonial attitudes
-feel rich. feel sad
-learn to ride a motorbike
-motorbike round island
-night swim
-fend off advances of a 17 year old boy
-acquire adoring band of street kids/tricycle drivers
-acquire female entourage
-try to steal adorable kids. opt instead for a game of Frisbee on the beach
-get stung by a jellyfish
-get an infection. name it ricky
-dance with a midget and lady boys in the moonlight
-wander aimlessly in the bush for hours in search of paradise armed with a gun and mini-machete.
- leave paradise.

Manila (the sequel)
- try to take a: tricycle, jeepney, taxi, bus. any freakin' thing to get to international departures! generally fail
- try to take refuge from a typhoon. fail
- drown
- be hungry
- stay hungry
- be wet
- stay wet
- be helped by the locals
- be scammed by the locals
- be locked out of the airport for 5 hours cold, wet and hungry
- wonder what the hell you've gotten yourself into