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February 13th 2006

Published: February 23rd 2006

"You don't spend a centavos when you smile." Mary, the wife of Emiliano, the owner of this lodging and carving studio, up here in this breathtaking scenary, is yet another reason I have fallen in love with the Philippines. She is intelligent, and she is able to present to us an authentic view of Filipino life up here in Ifugao country, high in the mountains. She has given us more reason to trust t... Read Full Entry

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Shawna Manske

Munchkin

Good ol' Canadian (Okotokian) girl...done a degree, done the bar slinging bit. Sometimes a girl dreams of becoming something else, seeing ANYTHING else, other than the familiar. Or dreams of finding the familiar somewhere alien. I'm doing the foreign teaching thing in Korea for a change of pace. Plan is to "see the world" after that. I want something.... I realize it's easy to say "I want to change the world", so I would rather say that I want to just follow whatever path is possible to make somebody's life better, somehow. And let's be honest, no one forsakes the comforts of home without look... full info

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Betelnut

Alberto demonstrating how he gets the lucious red color tone to his lips....Reynaldo, in turn, lights a smoke on the top of the hill.

Little Falls

along the path

Green and Stone

Some terraces had been planted...most were merely water as it was the beginning of planting season.

Green and Stone again

Bridge

Me on the bridge

Tears and stepping stones

This was the second place I thought it all was gonna come down...but Jen persevered. She made it down those tiny pathetic excuses for steps and showed that terrace who's boss. It was a rough moment though...could have gone either way. I guess it just came down to the fact that she didn't have much choice. Either press on or go back over the horrifying heights we just traversed.