What a week. Lauren is here and we had a wonderful evening here in Poblacion. We walked down to the White Coral Resort to go to a birthday party for a volunteers 90 year old host grandmother. We shared a bottle of "wine" on the beach and had a wonderful time. We stayed out really late, 10:30pm.
Earlier this week I helped conduct a community discussion and helped develop a community project in which we will buy, cook, and serve a healthy meal for about 100 indigenous school children next week. The kicker is my group had to conduct this discussion in about 60% Tagalog, 20% Spanish, and 20% English. Good thing it was a group effort. Between the 9 of here in Poblacion we are at least able to somewhat communicate. Strange to think we have only been speaking this language of a couple of weeks. We have our Language Proficiency Interview in less than 5 weeks, so we all have to buckle down and study and more importantly go out in the community and just speak to people till you get it right.
Lauren's group has been measuring coral, looking at turtles, and drinking beer. It sounds like a lot of fun, but they seem to drink their weight in sea water every day. It sounds physically draining.
We are both happy and healthy. We miss our family and friends. More to come.
