Tag Archives: Davao City

Still Recovering from Flooding

By Headmistress | Published: January 10, 2018

People are still recovering from flooding here.  We’re fine, but just about a mile or two up the road, they aren’t.  Some of the people are staff at our school.  Some of the leadership from school visited families and asked what their biggest needs were, and they said school supplies and clothes for kids, and […]

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Day Four

By Headmistress | Published: December 17, 2016

Day Four: (Pictures will have to come later- the blog won’t load them). We took a cab to breakfast at Green Coffee: https://www.facebook.com/Green-Coffee-1779881528940623/ Cabs here are about a dollar (or less), for us even with all four of us. (Update, now they are closer to two dollars) Obviously, this depends on where you go, but […]

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Recipe from the Philippines

By Headmistress | Published: December 17, 2016

The first day we arrived a family from the school took us out to dinner, and in that post, I could not remember where we had eaten.  I found it again.  We ate at a chain called Mang Inasal.  Inasal is a type of BBQ chicken.  It’s delicious. What we had was a chicken leg […]

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Day 3

By Headmistress | Published: December 16, 2016

Day Three: This isn’t from day three, but just a compare and contrast- at the airport in Chicago, I started to take off my shoes, but the person in front of me asked if she needed to, and she was told no, so I didn’t.  This was wrong.  I was made to feel it was […]

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Fun Facts

By Headmistress | Published: December 16, 2016

Fun facts: We Left Chicago in the morning at 10 or 10:30 our time.  We flew for 13 hours and it never got dark- every time we opened a window shade, the sun was blindingly bright.  The window shades were mostly kept shut because many passengers were sleeping.  It was night by the time we […]

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