The Mirror’s Reflection of Life

BYES BYES...and good picture ^_^

That is so cute!!!!

good pic! And bye bye! *waves*

Well everyone, today is the day I leave for a month. Please have fun, stay safe, and keep being yourself.

I will be posting about my trip here when I can. So as of know, here is my first journal entry...LOL

02.12.2009

Well, I leave today. Got up from a dream-less night, when the last two nights, I had nothing but dreams. The last one was cool and lots of WTF's. (I jumped off a cliff in one dream, landed in water. That was so cool.)

I have all my stuff read. (I hope) and I'll be bringing the book. "The One I Love" By CLAMP, because of Vali. Day. (I'm a sap to love stories.) I have other books to, but that's the only manga I'll be taking with me. I just up loaded about 300 songs to my MP3 player...now I have about 776 songs, two movies and other stuff on the MP3 player.

When I get near a computer again, I will post more, as well as pictures.
Talk to everyone later. Talk to you in a few days.

Wow! You're going to be gone for a whole month!!! I'll miss you! And I hope you have lots of fun!

Aw..Chibi gonna miss ya heaps, Smiley-chanee Have fun and come back soon ok? oh, btw, nice pics

Hi everyone. I am here in the Phili's. I have low internet at the moment so....LOL

2.15.2009

Any ways. I was in Japan for 3 hours. Plane came early. (They wait for no one....LOL...kidding)

It was something like a 17 hour flight (morelike 24 hours) moving to 3 planes and all. It was so cool to be on a plane again. On my last flight, I got a window seat. I was way up. And not only that, I saw a Phili movie star, he was so cool, and he liked my name. LOL, but then again, I was the only American on that plane.....wow....I never felt so....whats to word, different. I had a lot of people looking at me. They like my white skin, and many people thought my hair was a wig. (because it was so curly and brown/blonde). I lol all the time when I'm out in the sun. They think I will burn up. (I want a tan darn it...LOL) The family I am with is very nice. They own a farm, have lots of family everywhere and are very protective of me. (Dew to kiddnappings of people of different nations.Among other things) Even if its a nice and green place, its still rather held back. But then again, I can't talk about that right now. Its political, and not only that, Phili isn't my homeland, so I have no hear say. I will talk about it later, when I get back.

Lets see, I have no money here.....well I have money, but the Phili bank won't take my world check, nor will they exchange my American Money for PHP. It's getting old fast, the banks here are very bad, its nice looking, but when they don't take money like that I wounder how they can make it sometimes.

What else, when to the family farm, when to a Bird Farm, Went to two malls. I'll be headed to a beach soon, so I can't wait. Hum....I got a girl and her mother into CLAMP. LOL I brought the book "The one I love." It was so cute. I gave it to them. The family is very nice.

OH THE FOOD!!!! I love the food. I will leave it at that for now.

hum, lets see, since I can't pay for anything, I offer to help around the house, but they say no. (I WANT TO DO SOMETHING OTHER THEN SIT)...LOL...so I opted to rub everyones backs....LOL...they loved it, most fell asleep.

Well I have to go for now. Later dayz

Its good to hear from you Smile. I'm glad that you are having fun so far. hope to hear from you again soon

Hi everyone still in Phili. OMG it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTT

Sorry, just had to do it, but its true. Low internet connetion, but none the less, I am here, and have so much to say, but so little time. Sigh, oh well time moves on, and I'll be back home on the 12th of March. Home how I miss the.

But none the less, very nice here, met many people, went to a private school, saw one of the 7 wonders of the world. (GOT car sick too)
Hehe I even bought CCS Stickers, which I will scan later when I get home. Most of these I have never seen before. SO CUTE.


I will talk more later, as I know I will be typing up my journal and other things in the process.

Miss everyone and I hope you didn't forget me. (LOL)

Hiya!!!! I hope you have having lots of fun!

Of course no one could forget you. :)

love and miss you Smile-chan

Smiley-chan, ya just got back right? Welcome back Miss ya heaps Smiley-chanee

ohhhh an update on my journal...no this isn't about my trip, I will get to that later. hehe....

But I am here to give out a link. I am posting a fare warning, this will scare you, and I'm not even sure if its for real or not, but whatever it is, scared me. This has been around since I was in the 8th grade (An now I'm in 3rd year college)

http://www.amightywind.com/hell/aboutsounds.htm

THink about it and tell me what you think.

Wow... I would be so freaked out if I went there and heard people screaming in pain. *shudders*

Well as some of you had known, I was gone for a month, February 12- March 12. I was on a month long trip to the Philippines. So here I will write on where I went first, and start from home.

The Start: How did I get to go to the Philippines in the first place.
Well, I work at a hospital, as a food handler. So when I stalk food and bring food up for the patients, I stay a bit longer and chit chat with the nurses and nurses aids. I joke with them a bit, and listen to their problems. SO one day, one nurse’s aid asked me if I wanted to go to the Philippines. Her name is Cherry. Cherry is a person I had also helped with for her college classes, along with computer problems and I was always nice to her.

At first I was like…”Ok…Thank you?”
Truth be told, I was rather happy she asked me to go with her, but I was also bummed out, because I knew my parents would say no. So I just went on with work, and went home. Mom was already home, and I told her what Cherry said to me. My mom said no. I was like ok, strike out on mom, now I just have to ask dad. When dad got home from work, I asked him, and he said yes.

Now, with that yes, left me in a state of shock. My dad said yes, and when dad says yes, I know I can get to go. I was more the just excited I was “FREAKED”. First time over seas, out of the USA. So I got my tickets, bags, clothing and all that fun stuff to get ready and have fun.

While waiting for the days to passed, I stopped by and talked with Cherry. About all the fun things we do and see. She also talked about her family, which I would get to meet later on in the trip.

Day 0:
The Drive: From my house to the Portland airport took 4 hours.
The drive was a rather nice one. I was able to speak and meet with Cherry’s fiancée, and get to know more about Cherry herself. I already knew the road we where on, so it was just normal. The driver told me to sleep, but I was to wired for that, to exited. When we got to Portland, it was so cold. Like OMG, I want warmth of the car. We got inside, and that’s when it started getting crazy. Cherry started worrying, she just wanted to make sure she had everything down pact, and I assured her she did. We joked a bit that this was my first flight, and I was more calmer then Cherry who was an avid flier. We got there on time, and no problem. I was a little sad that I didn’t get a window seat, but we got an mid-section seating. Man oh man, was I ready to go…

The 1st flight: Portland, Oregon to Narita,( 10 hour plane ride, 2 hour wait)

The take off was rather fun, we where off the ground flying high in the sky, and I was enjoying it. But it was going to be a long flight….god was it long….Thank god there was individual movie channels. I watched about three movies. One was “Tokyo Sonata”, That was a good movie, recommended watch. “The Boy with the Striped Pajama’s”, this was rather good and a good history lesson. I just can’t recall what the other movie was that I watched. Then I played video games that where on the TV thing, listened to music. (English and Japanese.)

I did not get a wink of sleep. People that can sleep in a plane amaze me. Cherry was one of those people. It got cold, because we didn’t know how to turn off the air conditioner. While Cherry slept, I gave her my blanket, because I wanted her to get some rest. While she Z’s away, I played Mahjong and Traveler’s Trivia . Traveler’s Trivia was very fun, you play with other people on the plane. I got 4th place of 13 people playing. That was really hard to play when you didn’t get any sleep for 24 hours.

Well it was “daylight” again, and we where getting read to land in Japan. We hit turbulence, I busted up laughing, while everyone around me was freaking out. My friend Cherry was praying softly. I chuckled at that. I told her we are fine, it happens. Every tribulation we hit, I gave a little laugh. Then we landed.

Cherry and I where in Narita Japan Airport. We had 2 hours to kill, so we looked around. I found a Japanese book store, bought my sister some FMA Manga and Magazines. I also bought some key chains. I bought myself a purple sword key chain with a bell. I bought Cherry a pink charm with a bell.

It was almost time to go, but we still had to wait a bit. While waiting, I saw this guy who was in a panic. I felt bad for him and asked him if he needed help. He gave me a smile and asked if I was an American. I said yes, Oregon. His name was Jamal, from Missouri. He was a Mariner, waiting for a plain ride to go to Kuwait.

Jamal was lost, and didn’t know where to find the boarding board to tell him where to go. I took him to the place to see where he need to go. We were relived to find out he didn’t miss the plane ride. We talked a bit before my plane had to depart. We said our good bye’s, and he told me god bless. We said have a safe trip and left.

Day 1:
Japan to Manila, Philippines.(5 hour flight)

I was so happy to get a window seat this time, but it was dark and by this time I was already tired of airplanes. Also, not getting any sleep sucked too. Had a TV thing in this plane ride as well. I watched “101 Dalmatians” and “Madagascar 2”. Played games, and listened to music. Cherry once again, fell asleep, rather quickly I might add. I stayed up again, a little jealous of how easily she slept. The trip seemed it went by a lot faster. I guess its because of the shorter flight. Then we landed. I was so happy to be on ground again.

While in Manila, we met Cherry’s nephew, Jason. I saw him as a silent man, and couldn’t get much out of him. He looked kind of military to me. We got into a taxi, I went to go put on a seatbelt, when I realized the seatbelt was cut out if its seat. I was like “ok”. We drove around Manila, it was dark, so I didn’t see much, just the lights of the big city. Then we made it to another airport. The Philippines Airlines. There was had to wait five hours outside the airport terminal. We wait for Cherry’s niece, Charmine. Charmine was coming along with us on the trip. When we got inside the Airport, I looked around and had some fun, because we had another 4 hours to kill. I was sleepy, and wanted to sleep, but sleep had to wait for now. We had a meal, and just sat around. I started reading “The one I love” Written by CLAMP. Charmine was interested, so I let her read it. While sitting, we heard people owing and awing at a movie star. His name was Filipe Santo. Charmine was blushing like a mad woman. I was like, come on lets go say hi. I was able to get pictures, talk to him, and he asked me my name. I told him, not thinking he’d remember it.

We got on the plane….joy

Day 2:
Manila to General Santos (2 hours)….(Holy almost 32 hours of being up,)

It didn’t have a TV thing, but what I got was even better. Another window seat!! And it was DAY LIGHT. I saw the clouds, the ocean, the land. OMG it was so lovely. I did most of my time looking out the window, also, taking pictures. That trip woke me up, I was so happy for some unknown reason. (I blame lack of sleep. Made me a little bit loopy)

Then we landed. I WAS SO HAPPY. Got off the plane, ran into the movie star again, got another picture, and he remembered my name. Haha, then again I was the only white girl on that plane.

So then, after that, we made are way, and met Cherry’s Brother named Ruben, and his son, her other nephew, Lanlan. When we left the airport for the car, I was bombarded by children. These children are waiting for people to give them money so they can eat. I wanted to give them money, but I didn’t have any on me at the moment, because I couldn’t find a money changer. Then we left for a town called Tacurong.

Day 3:
General Santos to Tacurong,

On the way there, we stopped to get something to eat. What I eat was sooooo goooood! It was lection. Pig that was cooked in the open, and in tasted different then the kind I ate at home. We also ate in the car, I was like…back home we don’t eat in the car, but oh well. Cherry had a blast seeing me eat the food. On the trip there, I tried getting Lanlan to talk to me more. He was rather shy, and I found it kinda cute. While driving, they stopped from some fried banana, with the pealing still on it. By the end of the trip, I was able to get some words out of Lanlan. It had to do with one of the few things that are universal among men…Boxing. General Santos is hope to a Philippine Boxer name Paccio. He is a good man.

When we got to Ruben’s house, I met his wife, and their house keeper, who lived and work there to pay for her schooling. (I can’t recall their names at the moment) I can’t remember what we ate, for I was to tired. Cherry and I walked around like we where drunk. By now, we had been up for about 48 hours. Cherry and I walked into our room, and hit the bed. It wasn’t soft, but it wasn’t to hard either, but then again, I didn’t care. Neither did Cherry, cause I am positive, we hit the bed at the same time, and crashed. I have no idea how long I slept for, but I was up for dinner, and to meet with everyone. Went to bed early, because we had another trip to go to.

Day: 4
Ruben, who is a very nice man, took me to his farm, along with Lanlan and Cherry. Oh boy, did I feel like I stuck out. There was a lot of workers, working on the farm, building it up. And Cherry and I where the only woman there. (Me the only whittie) Ruben showed me and told me what was going where, and what it was used for. It looked interesting, and he wanted to show me around later when the development was a little better.

After that, we went to Isulan, a town where Charmine lives.

Tacurong to Isulan

There, I met Charmine’s husband, Strong, and their daughter, Zyine. (Zyine is so COOL)
Strong is a very happy man, Charmine and Strong have a nice relationship with each other. Its so cute. Strong has a very good relationship with his daughter, and that too, is also cute. (I pity the poor guy who want’s to date her, they have to go through her dad)

After that, they took me to a mall. It was Ruben, Cherry, Lanlan, Strong, Zyine, Charmine, and myself. They bought me a meal called Bock Choei. And then they bought me a hot dog, dyed red. Yeah…strange, but it give the name “Hot” for “Red” . Rather unique. The mall had a carousal, called “Anime World” It has Sakura from CardCaptor Sakura. Vash from Trigun, Goku from DMZ, Edward from FMA, Ash from Pokemon, and Naruto from Naruto. While at the mall, I bought my sister and FMA piggybank. It was Chibi-Edward. So cute. There was also a Chibi-Itachi, but I let that one go. Zyine and I played around with the “dolls”. She made me bust up laughing, she made Edward and Itachi “kiss each other” have a fight with another Chibi-bank thing. I have it on video. (Which I will up load later.)

Isulan to Tacurong

Then we headed for home. Zyine went with us back to Tacurong. Had dinner. Oh, and a note, they eat lots and lots of rice. Went to bed.

Day 5:
Got a call at 5 am from dad. A rooster was singing its song. My dad laughed and asked, is that a rooster. I was like yeah. Told him I loved him, missed him and mom and Tara and talk to them later.

Had breakfast, also, they eat a lot of bread, and it tastes so good, the bread was sweet tasting. For breakfast, had last nights dinner. Ruben told me that Lanlan was going to take me and Zyine out on the Tricycle. It a motorcycle with a passenger seating up to 2-6 people, depending on the size of it. Lanlan took us around, showing us the locations. It was so fun. He then took us to another relative, I think a cousin. Where they treated me with coffee and rice cake/bread. It was so good. Ruben’s family I met there owned a shop, and I would love to talk to them some more, for they are very nice. Ruben came to pick us up. He took us to the farm again. I was amazed on how fast they worked on the farm in a short time. After the farm, went back home from lunch. Zyine went back home to her mother and father.

I spoke with Cherry’s family some more, and got to know them. Then the Karaoke machine came out. I was rather reluctant at first to sing, but they suckered me into it. I sang Stings “Fields of Gold” and got a 98 out of 100 on it. They fell in love with my voice. I was less assuring about that. Then they spoke about the color of my skin, versus theirs. They said I had very lovely skin, so white. I in turn, told them I found their skin beautiful. I said that my native tribe, the Cherokee Indians, would love their skin and would love to dress them up in Indian clothing. Later on in the day, another relative would show up. Her name was Bingbing. I don’t know her real name. She has a husband named Jason. Not the one I met that night in Manila. I liked Bingbing and Cherry together, they where so fun. We spoke and had fun. While talking, I noticed Bingbing was rubbing her neck a lot. So I offered to rub her back. I brought out my towel, laid in on the ground, told her to lay down, and started rubbing her back. Then I popped it. She felt so much better, she was telling me that she had a pain in her neck from 5 months, and nothing would take it away until I came and fixed it. She asked if I was a professional, and I said no, I just know what I am doing. I asked Cherry if she wanted her back rubbed too, she eagerly agreed. I started rubbing her back, and she started grunting and moaning. I was laughing a bit, then Cherry was lost in dream land. Haha I put her to sleep. Then Lanlan walked in, he wanted one too, so I gave him one. He loved it too. Later on in the night Lanlan and I had a talk. It was about America, stars and ghosts. He freaked out when I asked him about the ghost up in the attic. He told me the lady was there long before he was born. By this time, I had a feeling that Lanlan liked me.

Day 6:

Cherry and Bingbing had to leave from another trip. On this day, I did nothing but sleep, relax, and save some energy.

Day 7:


Ruben, his wife, Lanlan, Strong, Chermine, Zyine and I went back to General Santos to go to the mall. The mall was so big. Zyine and I wondered off, went to music stores, bought Two CD’s. Take That “Beautiful World” was the better of the two. Looked around some more, and got hurt on my food. (The scar is still there) The family freaked out a bit, but I was fine.

Day 8:

Stayed at Isulan, at Charmine’s and Strong’s house. Zyine and I had a sleep over. I showed her some anime. Hehe, man did she have a blast with that. I showed her “Shugo Chara.” Zyine fell in love with Ikuto, OMG it was so Cute. Hehe. Then I showed her 30cm away from you, A story of short events. Her mom took us to the mall to go see a movie. It was “Ink Heart.” Rather good movie. When the movie was over, I over heard some boys talking.
“Ah look, an American…Hi”
I waved back, “Hi”
They started talking. “ah, she said hi back, so cool”
I laughed a bit.
Charmine told me I was going to go to Zyine’s school. They made the ok with the school for me to be there.

Day 9:
Went to school, man, I had never felt so much like the new kid. My first class was with Zyine, so I was happy to at least know one person in the classroom. The teacher Sharon was very, very nice. I was able to introduce myself, and ask many questions the students shot at me. It took awhile, but the students where very nurvice around me. They spoke English very well. One of the students asked me what my dream was, I told them was to become a teacher, because that is my dream, to teach children.

After that class, I went to another one. I met new people, told stories, and cleared up any thing they might wanted to know.

It was break time, and I ran into Zyine. She showed me her friends. They all swarmed around me. Zyine pointed to a boy, and said he was the most beautiful person in the school. I looked at him and I was rather confused. I was like
“Ok, I guess, he’s beautiful.” That said boy started blushing, and turned away.
Zyine laughed.
“No, I pointed at her.”
She was laughing, and blushed and said sorry, I thought she was pointing at the boy. The girl told me she hated her freckle under her right eye, and she found ugly. I told her back at home, that is considered an beauty mark. Everyone awed and owed at her at that comment.

Back to class, 4 more of them. One class, I had fun with, telling stories. Such as Anasi the Spider and the three big cats. As well as a joke. The teacher caught on real quick. The joke is this.

“Now, do any of you know the initials on mountain?”
“No?”
“The initials are the letter M and the letter T.
“MT”
“Now point to your head, and say the initial of Mountains really fast.”
*30+ students start saying “MT” very fast, sounding the word out to “Empty”
The teacher busted up laughing, understanding the little joke. Some of the students caught on.
“I’m not empty in the brain.”
Then the whole class caught on. It was so funny.
After that, the day was almost done, when a girl came up and gave me a Dollar in her money. I was very appreciative, of it, and thanked her, and told her I would take care of it forever.

Also, every class wanted to know if I had a boyfriend. I said yes, and they all squeed.

At the end of the day, we went back to Zyines house, watched some more Shugo Chara. Talked about boys, she played with my hair, I gave her a dress. Saw the movie Twilight. Went to bed.

Day 10:
Went back to the school. The same class with Sharon and Zyine. There in that class, I told stories, said some poems, and showed the class how do draw horses and humans. Got a lot e-mails and friendster accounts. Was given flowers and show the school spirit.

Day 11:
Chilled at Zyines house, played games, relaxed and saved up energy.

Day 12:
Ruben and Lanla picked up Cherry and Bingbing. On they way, they picked me and Charmine up to and took us back to Tacorong

Day 13:
Ruben, Lanlan, Cherry, Bingbing, Charmine and I stopped over to a little stand that served a meal called “Halo, Halo”. VERY GOOD. We joked around, and I started getting the Tagaloo language down. Charmine took me to her job at a Hospital. Took a picture of a very CUTE GUY!!! AH, he was so cute, like movie star cute. Went back to Tacarong

Day 14:
Relaxing day

Awwww, that sounds better than my school, lol.

Wow! It sound sounds like you had a lot of fun! ^_^

Day 15
Ruben, His wife, Lanlan, Cherry, Bingbing and I went on a trip. It was a trip to Lake Sebu.

Tocaroug to Lake Cebu.

The trip was long, but fun. Ruben drove. The higher up we got, the less danger the family was in. I could move around more freely, and not have to worry about being taken anywhere. The drive to Lake Sebu was nice. Made it to a restaurant/tourist site. That was fun. I made friends with a black cat, because I found it so cute. Went on a boat, too pictures. I didn’t put a life vest on, because I could swim. Unlike the family I was with, no one knew how to swim. I laughed at that a bit. After the meal, we drove some more to a resort owned by the family.

It was a very nice place. The group room you shared with everyone. I had a bunk bed next to the window. Put my stuff down, looked around the place, made friends with another cat. Took pictures. Hiked a bit. Very fun. Had a Pilipino meal, had Jell-O with coconut milk. Talked with the owner of the resort, she was very pleasant. I liked her a lot. Made friends with a Muslim woman who’s husband is Japanese.

Day 16:
The bed was a killer on your back, and I didn’t get much sleep. It was a snoring symphony. Oh god. It was funny.

We went to the Waterfall of Lake Sebu. It was so nice. Took pictures. Was going to go to another water fall, but it was 774 steps, we only made it to 100 before we head back up. Man did it kick your but. Back at the resort, took more pictures, relaxed, spent time with kitty. Cherry and I hung out a bit, before going to sleep.

Day 17:

We left to go back to Tacarone. Got home, took it easy.

Day 18:
Stayed in Tacaorne

Day 19:
Getting ready for another trip. Had to get everything packed.

Day 20: The trip was to another resort. The people that went was Cherry, Bingbing, Lanlan, Ruben, his wife, Chermine, Strong and Zyine. It was a rather nice resort, had a water slide, paint ball guns, karaoke, restaurant. It was very fun. Told people’s fortunes with playing cards. I told Bingbing’s, Lanlan’s and Cherry’s. Shared a bed with three people, everyone slept in one room. Got another snoring symphony. I once again, busted up laughing.

Day 21: Left the Resort, and headed back to Tacarone. On this night, I met Bing Bing’s Husband, Jason. He’s a computer guy, he knows his way around computers. Got ready for another trip.

Day :22
Left for General Santose again. Left real early, Tacarone looked very empty, versus during day light, when its full of people and traffic. It was a long ride to General Santose, but we got there early. There we took a cruse ship. The people who went with us was, Cherry, Lanlan, Charmine, Strong, and Zyine. Ruben, his wife, Bingbing and Jason went by plane to our next area. Zyine, Strong and I went to the other side of the ship, where children in small boats and flotation devices waited in the ocean water. There, people would toss over coins into the water, for the children to swim after. Very good swimmers, I was more worried of hitting them when I threw coins over, and I had hoped they got the coins too. I threw over about $15 US worth, enough to keep a person fed for awhile. After that, we walked around the ship. I noticed, once again, I was the only pale skinned person on board. The ship started moving, and we headed back to our room. The room was small, and fit 6 people. I got top bunk bed. I can’t stand people sleeping above me. It was a rather fun, because I had never been on a ship before. For dinner, I only ate the rice. The chicken was half cooked, blood was still in it. Before it got to dark, the group headed up top to see the sunset and moon out on the open water’s. Nothing in sight for miles. Headed out for bed, and slept rather easily. (But I got very cold, no one knew how to turn off the air conditioner.)

Day 23:
After a short night of freezing. I was well rested and ready to go look around some more. Zyine and I went up top, so we could get some sun. Cherry later joined, Zyine left. So Cherry and I talked, had fun. Went and had breakfast, I ate rice, because everything else looked scary. Lunch, had rice too. We made it to are destination. An Island called Panay, well landed in a city called Iloilo. We met up with Ruben and family at the dock. It was a very nice looking city. We drove around, making our way to a hotel. At the hotel, we met another one of Cherry’s relations, a 19 year old girl. Her niece, can’t recall her name. She lost both her parents before she was 9 years old, Ruben and his wife adopted her, she moved out when she was 16 to go to college. The hotel was behind a haunted mansion. It was nice, we dropped our stuff off and went around the town. Looking for a place to eat. When got on a Jeepmney, its like a small bus, but more so like a taxi, it can fit about 30+ people, if you pack them like sardines. We stopped at the mall in Iloilo, there we bought thing, and I bought myself tea bags, for my sunburn. Man was a red like a lobster. We found a place and ate boch choi again. Headed back to the hotel. At the hotel, I stayed in a room with Ruben, his wife, Bingbing, Jason and Lanlan. I told Jason his fortunes. Slept good.

Day 24: Left Iloilo for another place, that was all the way to the other side of Panay, to make it to another island, called Boracay. It was a five hour drive. And once again, no seat belts. Saw one accident, involved a jeepney. It was rather messy. Made it to the end of the island, took a boat, and made it to Boracay island. It had white sandy beaches, and clear crystal blue waters. It felt like I was in America again, having so many tourist around. We stayed at a hotel called the Bamboo Hotel. Very nice, but construction was going on. Went swimming in the water, and had dinner outside. I LOVE SEA FOOD. Walked around a bit and found the mall in Boracay. Yes I walked alone. I loved it, to have time by myself. Went back. Slept on a bed shared with Cherry. Snoring was a given.

Day 25:
Still in Boracay. Looked around the vendors, bought things, saw things. After that, Ruben got everyone together to go on a boat ride and Island hop. I wore my life vest at first, not knowing how strong the current was. Cherry and I went on in the front of the boat, it was rather fun when going really fast on a boat and hitting waves. I was up there with Cherry to make sure she didn’t fall off, for she didn’t know how to swim. After that, they took us to snorkeling areas. That is where I took off my life vest so I could swim deeper. I laughed a bit because no one else could swim with out one. The fish was so nice. So many different fish’s. We where taken to another place to snorkel. I saw see urchins, fish, and many other things too, I headed up when I saw a shark. Well at least I thought it was a shark, I got up quick after that. Went back to land, and oh man was I burnt. Cherry and I got together, hung out and got henna tattoos. I got a dragon, and she got a rose. Cherry went on ahead of me, while I stayed below to talk with Zyine. I headed back up to see Cherry in a fight with Charmine and Ruben. She was in tears, and I was rather angry. I know Cherry wanted to get out of there, so I made up a lie that I needed something for my sunburn. (But I didn’t needed really, didn’t hurt that bad. Just needed to help Cherry out) I asked Cherry to come with me. It was getting dark, but a lot of people where still around. We were in the main walk way, when I told Cherry we should start walking on the beach, because I had a feeling Ruben would send Lanlan to “watch” us. (AND I WAS EFFEN RIGHT)
We walked down the beach, talking. She was upset, family matters. I let her talk it out, being her ear to fall upon. I told Cherry that if she felt like walking out, I’d go with her, and pitch in with the money to get another hotel. She said she would see when we got back to see how the family was then. We later moseyed our way back to the main walk way, because Cherry and I wanted something to drink. That was when we ran into Lanlan. He wanted us to go back, and I said I wanted something to drink. So we offered for him to stay and drink with us. We all got Pina Coladas. It was so funny, I held my liquor, as did Cherry, but Lanlan couldn’t handle it very well. Then it started raining. That was then I realized I had my cell phone and pass port with me. We made it back to the hotel room, wet. My pass port was wet and dyed with the money I had in it. It all dried over night. The family settled down. Everyone slept. Snoring was now a normal thing. I stayed up late and watched Animax Tsubasa. I LOL’d a lot.

Day 26:
Looked around, bought stuff. Left Boracay and headed back to Iloilo. Stayed again at the hotel we stayed at before. Cherry’s niece dropped by and we spoke and had fun. Cherry bought balut. (Duck egg’s aged 17 days before boiled and eaten. I had 4 of them) Everyone just got ready and slept.

Day 27: Lanlan, Ruben, his wife, Bingbing, Jason, Zyine, Strong and Charime left to go home to Talcarone. Cherry and I left to go to the air port. We flew back to Manila, where we met up with Jason. The first Jason we met when landing in the Philippines. We took a taxi that took us to a bus. The bus took us to his home town, near Tabuk. (THAT was a long drive) There I met his wife, his mother and three children. I also met two of his cousins. (One was very, very cute!! He looked Japanese) Cherry and I got there and slept.

Day 28:
Left early for a drive. The most funniest and scariest drive on my life. No seat belts what so ever. Everyone, Jason, his wife, his mother, his father, his sister, his three children, his two cousins, Cherry and myself, in a big van thing. (12 people) The drive was normal at first, then we hit the mountains. Twist and turns, all that you can think of. Then, one of the boys behind me, opened up the window and puked. He got car sick. All those twist and turn’s was very fun. We saw the Rice Terraces of Banau. So very nice. We made our way up the mountain still. It was so lovely. While driving, the person I sat next to was Cherry. Whenever we got close to an edge, she’d start praying, and I’d bust up laughing. We had this seat belt thing in front of her, and she held on to it for dear life. She even held onto it when she fell asleep. I only got scared once when I thought a truck was going to hit us. Then it started to get dark and foggy. That’s when Cherry started praying the most, and I started laughing again. I said I was sorry, and didn’t want to come off as rude, but I told Cherry when she prayed, it brought a smile to my face. We joked and I got her to laugh. We made it to our destination. Bontoc was the place. We got a room that had a kitchen, two bath, three bed room, living room. It was very nice. I went to bed early, but later woke up sick with motion sickness.

Day 29:
Headed back to Tabuk. On the way there, read the cute cousins fortunes with the cards. He got the love deck. His aunt later told me it was true, the fortune that I had read him. She asked me how I did it, and I told her I grew up reading people’s fortunes since I was a kid, I go with what I feel. I was told once again that I have the 3rd eye. (Tell me something I don’t know) We made it back, ate dinner, went to bed.

Day 30:
Went to Dyan’s pre-school. Dyan is Jason’s only daughter, and she is so cute!! After that, I was taken to the high school/college by his sister, I met with many people there. So many nice people, I was the first American that they saw. Went back home.

Day 31:
Got up, and got ready to go back to Manila for the airport. It was going to be a long drive again, but this time, we used the van to travel in. Jason, his mother, his daughter Dyan, (Whom is so cute!!), and father went with us. We made it to Manila near 10 pm. There we stopped by Cherry’s great aunts house. I took a nap till 11 Pm to 1:30 am.

Day 32:
Made it to the airport, almost didn’t get on board because of my pass port that got wet in Boracay. I was so scared. But got on, and was happy for it. I walked around the terminal, before our plane had to depart. Bought more things. Got on plane.

Day 33:
Made it to Narita Japan. Stayed two hours, bought my sister more things. Bought some Japanese rice candy. Oh it was so good. Got on the plane. Got another window seat. I was so happy at that. Saw the city, cool clouds, and the stars and a giant moon at night.

Day 34: Landed in Portland, didn’t get any sleep. Saw Cherry’s fiancés, he picked us up at the airport. It was so cold in Portland. He drove us home. I didn’t sleep. Got dropped off at home, dragged my stuff to the door, kissed mom and dad, dropped the stuff I bought for my sister in her room. Went to go sit down on the couch, but face planted it instead, and slept. I didn’t wake up till the next morning, late afternoon.

Well that was my trip, I left some things out, that I will write about later. I will also have picture and a map of where I was later.

Wow! You went to so many places and met lots of people! XD That is so cool that you were in Japan! XD

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God I love this anime

OMG!!! That was hilarious and great!!! I so wanna go watch Saiyuki now! XD