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July 14th 2009

Published: July 27th 2009

Brian and I were given the amazing opportunity to stay with a family for a week in small town Philippines. Our friend and co-worker here in Taiwan, Kristina is a Filipina Canadian who hadn’t been back to her home country for seventeen years. So when we were given a week off from school, her and her husband decided it was time to go back to the homeland. And in some very fortunate circumstances, ... Read Full Entry

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Claire and Brian

CEBandBA

We are Claire and Brian. We are awesome. If you know us, a small piece of your heart is forever content. If you do not, there is a yearning deep inside you that will be one day be abated should you be lucky enough to know us. Anyways, we have been living abroad and teaching English for about fourteen months now (as of June 09). We started in Thailand. Now we are in Taiwan. Read about it if you'd like. We've been lucky with our jobs and the great people we have met along the way. We've had some opportunities to travel. We usually get a blog or two up about our travels. We'll be in Taiwan for... full info

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Bike 2

Eat Beluga

This is the set of a popular Filipino daytime tv show. It's kind of a variety show. We went for Ruth's B-day (in Manila). This is why we had to be up at 4am (3hrs to Manila)

Crowd

We sat in special seats that were a little more in the mix. We had a group of 13.

At the show

We rode in a van with over a dozen other people. I had the worst seat and got almost no sleep. I felt like garbage. Then we were in the rehearsal and filming for 5 hrs. It was great but weird.

Filming live

This show had the final of their marching band competition. All the bands were great with good dancers. They played arrangements of the current US hits (it was still good though).

The 3 Sar judges

A few pics away you'll see the female again but as a dancer with the blue on. All the others are orange.

The Final Moment

At this moment, while filming live, all six competitors were on stage. As the two hosts were talking about who would win they suddenly said in English "let's see what the foreigners think!". I then had a microphone in my face and was live across a country of 7000 islands. Kristina's Aunt Tia said I looked good on TV. I always knew I would.

Dancers!

oh yeah

Free money

People come to the show because they give away 10,000 piso to three different people each show (and ya get to be on tv). This was one if the drawings.

Uggghh

These dancers sucked so very, very bad. This was a short competition to find the weeks' guy and girl dancer (or something). They spoke Tagalog the whole show. All I know is they SUCKED!!

Blah, blah, blah

And now a gameshow

they certainly had variety

Jollibee

This restaurant is like McDonald's but with Filipino favorites on the menu too. I actually had a big case study on them in grad school, so it was really neat to eat there (several times).

At Mall Asia

The last day in Manilla was filled with shopping. The deals were awesome. Especially in the overstock shops and malls.

Ice rink in the mall

Mall Asia may be the biggest mall in Asia. At least top three

Time to go home

back to ChiaYi

Manilla from the sky

Manilla from the Sky 2

Philippines

from the sky

Patty, Tia Maria and Kristina

Back in Taiwan

WTF does this mean. I'm waiting for Marvis to stop by so she can translate. Ok. Basically it says if you commit a crime in Taiwan you can't just run away to China and vice-versa. I thought...well whatever

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