Another early morning wake up call. But today is our fun day. We drove to the town of Bais which is about 1.5 hours from Dumaguete. You have to arrive early because that is when the dolphins are not tired of their people watching yet. That's right, we are there for the dolphins to watch. I wonder if they pay to see us? It was a fun journey up the coast with a decent road most of the time.
We took a large banca (dual outrigger boat) to dolphin watch. There were scores of dolphins around us as we went. It was a blast. Unfortunately none of my dolphin pictures are any good. I'll have to beg one of the other team members for a good one. I have some decent video so I have something worth trading with.After the dolphins got tired of us we went over to a large sandbar where the water was only up to our chests. We had fun playing on it. That is, those of us who braved the slightly chilled water on an overcast day. We then has lunch and completed our morning. It was nice to get in the water. It was our first and probably only time to swim in the ocean this trip. Sigh. We are here to work not play.
After cleaning up, we spent time with the kids on campus. Some of us played basketball but most of us spent time talking to the kids and watching them practice for tomorrow's worship service. 
We handed out dresses to the Wee Women girls (girls of elementary schools age). They were very excited about the new dresses. I also took a nice ride around the neighborhood on the back of a motorcycle with Cerila. She let me know where everything was and who owned what. It was nice to see. It's amazing how much clearer things look from the back of a cycle.
Megan made a new friend. One of the girls living on the campus who is the same age as her. She has no parents since her father died and her mother ran off to Manila with another man leaving her with relatives. She enjoyed watching the interaction between Megan and I. We brought her along for dinner.
No comments:
Post a Comment