Day 2 Philippines

Monday Aug 10, we went to two different islands. We visited Olango Island and another islet. They are beautiful places where the life is simple. Most people are fishermen or they sell seashells. There are many public schools, but there is very little running water. They get most of their water from the rain. Here are a few pictures to enjoy! It is visits like these that make you really appreciate what you have.

This boat may look small, but there were four of us, plus the "driver". He actually rowed. Isn't the ocean beautiful!

Jeremi tried rowing. It was much harder than he thought!


After we got to the island, this is what we road around in. Yes, there were still four of us, plus the driver!

Jeremi and me on the beach.

The principle of one of the schools we visited explained to us that the children often have very little food and no water. In fact, they have more coca-cola than anything. Then, they brought us to lunch. Although it was very nice of them, we felt badly about the little children who couldn't eat. However, it is offensive to reject a meal, so we ate. :) It was fish (very fresh!) and pork with rice and lentils.

This is one of the elementary schools were a different charity group brought in a water system to help the children have running water. They love getting their picture taken!!

We will post more later. You will notice that there is a lot of English here! Even in the most remote areas, the children learn English and Tagalog (the other national language).