Beach resort

Yesterday Laurence & I ventured out of town to find a beach resort.  We had been on the scooter for 50 minutes so we stopped at the first one we came to.  I pinched the photos off Google for the resort as I didn't take any!  It was quite a nice resort but we didn't stay long.  There was a big beach, a pool, chalets, 'day cottages' (for BBQs etc) and a 'Gift Shop'.  I wish I had taken a picture of that as it sold very strange things, like tribal masks and stuff!!  We've heard there's a nice one a bit further away called London Beach Resort so we may try and find that one soon.  It was nice to be on the bike for that amount of time as we got lots of sun so we're beginning to look a healthy brown :-)

Bike

Us on the scooter!

Maligayang Bati Nicole

Happy Birthday to my wee ( but not so young !! :-D ) sister xxx

Typhoon

It's been raining all day today but at about 10.30am the rain started getting heavier and heavier.  By 12 noon, the school was flooded and although we were undercover outside everyone was gradually getting very wet!  Thankfully, before it got too bad we were able to finish off the UN Day celebrations.  I thought that the weather was due to it still being the rainy season but the head teacher said it's rarely this bad and it's more like a typhoon!  The raining seems to have stopped for now thankfully as when we were driving home from the school some of the communities of houses were waist deep in water!  It was a particularly chilly 25 degrees celcius also! :-D

United Nations Day

The school children celebrated United Nations Day today by dressing in the national dress from a country in the United Nations, putting on performances and holding a Miss & Mr United Nations pageant................which I was told on arrival I would be judging!  Mr Norway & Miss Guatamala were crowned from the Elementary School and a boy and a girl from second year from the High School.

Yay!

A little boy giving an impromptu dance performance.

The Head Teacher in her Saudi Arabia costume.

ElementaryTeacher

Pageant contestants

Some of my High School friends :)

Tricycle Ride

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aP-NhMAoGU

San Isidro

I took some snaps this afternoon while we were out on the bike around our barangay, San Isidro.  I love being out on the bike or in the car as there are so many interesting things to see. I managed to capture a small fraction of them today but will continue to post photos like this of life in the barangay.

Where we live

Traditional houses

Jeepney

Market place

Tricycles

Where we buy coconuts!

The University

A man selling inflatable penguins!

There are many church buildings like this in Mindanao.  The church is Iglesia ni Cristo (Tagalog for Church of Christ).  It's the largest entirely indigenous Christian church in the Philippines  They are all exactly the same design but different pastel colours and sizes. I think they have a 'Disney' look about them.

shops

Caribow

Entrance (guard house) at Camella Homes

Little banana stall, it's usually tiny kids manning it!

Queen Tuna Park

Laurence and I are both missing the water so seeing as we are in a coastal city we thought it about time we sought out the sea! There are a few beaches near town but most of the coast is industry. The 'holiday' type beaches would be about half an hour away. On the way home from work we stopped at Queen Tuna Park which is a public beach near the centre of town. It was great to be on a beach and see the sea! There were loads of kids in the water :-) we didn't stay long as we weren't prepared and it was a scorcher today. It's probably not the kind of beach we would sunbathe on but it would be nice for a picnic.