So I had my first work day not today but last Friday and to be honest it was amazing. The children gave a dance presentation to welcome us, yes us, because I'm not alone at HORFI, Martijn, Janna and Merle (all Dutch as well) are there working also. The kids are being well educated at schools and some of them are being home schools because they have difficulties with learning due to their history. A lot of kids can speak English but some of them don't, so my Taga...

So have been a week alone since my parents left and actually I'm having a good time here. People from the hostel often offering me to have a drink with them. The food around this area isn't that expensive and taste really good, so I feel blessed. The last days were pretty much only about enjoying the time here, so I went out with Inna once and with Rain, Beth, Petros, Luna, Fabian and Michelle a couple of times and finally have met Teresa, had a great day with h...

So the last day of the trip with the three of us has come to an end. My parents just left and it's crazy. 2 weeks together and than, bam, alone. The last thing we visited, was the bamboo church, an organ made of 100% bamboo in 17rh century, pretty amazing. The hostel is perfectly fine though, sweet people, big bed, no food, but good. Also saw the house where I'm going to work, so tiny, but so nice! Looking forward for my time there. From now off I'm alone, but...

So in Banaue we went to Hapao, one of the trips with Rice terraces and not only the rice was one of the things you could see but also a natural hot pool, called hot spring. It took us a lot of walking, hiking and try not to fall but it was a-ma-zing. Beautiful! When we got back in our hotel we had one night before the trip back to Manila would start, so a good night rest was necessary. The last day was relaxing at the pool, nothing more to do in Banaue. Just be...

The 6th day I had to buy a phone, but that goes very differently around here. 1, it is cheap, 2 you buy one and het two, it costs only 20 euros. Prepaid is also quite different, don't know how it works yet. But 1 euro for 7 days, unlimited calling and texting, it's ridiculous. After that night we had one more day left in Makati, which we celebrated with a good day at the pool, couple of philipino kids were in the pool as well and I sort of taught one of them how ...