Tweet Lest I fall behind on my promise, this post actually counts as last week’s. Which means I still need another one before the weekend. Anyhow, we’ve finished up the bulk of our work here at OLLCF with a week and a half to go. Our final report is written (although it still needs quite [...]
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Tweet Last week, Dr. Paul Palencia (one of the sons of OLLCF’s founder) invited us to his weekly Rotary Club lunch meeting. And just two nights ago, we accompanied him to the club induction ceremony as guests. As our first exposure to Rotary International, these two events gave us quite a look into what the [...]
Tweet Steven made the last update, and we are being ambitious. We will try to catch up. Other students from other places can take up to the challenge too. Actually this post is late on our targeted schedule. Anyways, I have been having this written material for a while. It has been eternally a “draft”, [...]
Tweet Ah, another post by yours truly, and so soon after my first. Well, there’s a reason for that. Following Joy’s latest blog entry full of some of our pictures, the three of us began looking at the blog category statistics. It didn’t take long for us to realize that for whatever reason the students [...]
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Tweet Yeah, so it took me long enough to make a blog post, much to Joe’s dismay I’m sure. As the title says, we’re nearing the end of five weeks here. This weekend will mark the halfway point of our stay in the Philippines. So just what have we been doing so far? Well, lots! [...]
Tweet Not going to lie, didn’t like Manila when I first arrived. The city was really busy, people everywhere, traffic everywhere, pollution blowing in your face, very humid ……. But once I arrived in Daet, I am enjoying my stay a lot. The pace of life is slower. Away from all the distraction of Manila, [...]
Tweet We arrived about 6 days ago on last Sunday night. We haven’t been able to get any stable internet connection yet until now. We stayed in Manila over the past days awating for professor Alex’s arrival. Until then, we got a view of Manila. It is a very busy city in a sense that [...]
