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Thursday, March 20, 2008
My husband and I have long been promising to go visit a friend who now lives in Surigao. We finally got it on the calendar and went a couple weeks ago. Traveling from Cagayan de Oro, is is about a six hour trip. Because we got off to a late start, we spent the night [...]
Thursday, December 27, 2007
…and it’s not too late to oil the wheels of relationships with a little gift giving. My husband was out yesterday delivering little gifts of chocolate to the bank tellers who had been especially helpful to him this year, and to the ladies who have helped us at the post office.When there was a language [...]
Friday, December 21, 2007
As Westerners, we do not know what this means. We use the words ‘embarrassed,’ ‘shy’ and even ‘ashamed,’ but none of these come close to the meaning behind the words in Filipino languages that are translated to the English words mentioned above. The Philippines, as well as other Asian countries, have a predominately ‘Shame/Honor’ culture. [...]
Friday, December 7, 2007
Klaus had an article last week on this topic and I had what I thought was an interesting comment to post when a brown out lost it for me. So, here’s the pie, from my American perspective!
I enjoy a good sense of humor, and what different cultures consider funny is a fascinating thing to think [...]
Friday, December 7, 2007
We have been home one week now, and believe me, there’s no place like home!We had tickets on the last flight of the day and left the condo in Makati a little earlier than we needed to, but it turns out that if we had left much later, we probably would have missed our flight.
As [...]
