An Extended Vacation

After I dropped my parents off at the airport, I spent a few days in Manila working on our volunteer newsletter, The Kwan, with my three other co-editors. One of them is Anna, my good friend who lives in Capiz, on the island of Panay. When we finished putting together the newsletter, I flew with her to her site, which is more rural than my site. We hung out in her native-style house, and walked through the mud to the small port, where we took a tiny, very tippy boat out to an even more rural barangay (neighborhood) to go to a community meeting for planting mangroves. But when we got there, a big storm hit and nobody came to the meeting. During my visit we also took a field trip to the next town over and went searching for a mummified woman Anna had heard about. We found her! She stays behind glass in somebody's house on a dirt road near the beach. It was a bit of an adventure. I also met her co-workers and neighborhood children and a snake that we found in her house.