We Are the World

Happy Day 100!!! (ok, so that was actually on the 6th, but you get the point)

How did I celebrate?

Yeah, I heard a lot of really old music from some concert DVDs in the Bohol Sports Bar this weekend where Debo, Helen and I went to talk. A little strange. I saw Bob Dylan, Mic Jagger, Dione Warwick, Patti LaBelle, Kenny Loggins, and a lot of one hit wonders on the Live Aid concert and then got a nice dose of The Police, Eric Clapton, and even Robbie Williams (the only non-80s band) while there, it was crazy.

Oh wait, why was I in Bohol?

Well the Western Visayas Jurisdition of the UCCP church was having one of their meetings and Bohol was hosting. This meant two things for me:

1) Great trip
2) Fellow interns (Helen and Debo)

While most of the meeting mostly went over my head, we did have a great day of travelling aroudn teh south-western quarter of the island to see the main attractions that make Bohol one of the top tourist spots in the Philippines.

We went to see the famous Chocolate Hills, which are said to be coral deposits from millions of years ago when Bohol was completely under the water and are these almost perfectly rounded hills that turn brown in the summer, and the tarsiers, which are the smallest primates in the world.

It took mostly the whole day to vist three sites (two Chocolate Hills locations and one Tarsier habitat). The day culminated for me in sleeping for about three hours on the beach while I should have been swimming in the ocean. Tarsiers can really take it out of you.

We had an amazing dinner that night with the famous pork "lechon" for our "Christmas celebration". Lechon is basically this big pig that's been fried. Yes, the whole pig. I also ate some yummy bi-valves (I don't know exactly what kind) and some weird fish salad type thing. And let me say that where there's a party, there's karaoke, and Filipinos LOVE karaoke. It's more of those cheesey lounge songs, but its great fun to seen grown adults singing and dancing like wild things.

All in all the week was a blast and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I'm sorry there's not a lot more to report from it, but when you travel at night by boat, you don't get much sleep and you tend not be too coherent the next day. I'll try to do better next time.

Peace, I hope