Challenge - Day Three

Day 3: Your Day in Great Detail

Right, so I’ll try to make this as detailed as possible. I wish I’ve done justice to it. I have so many things to say, but well, they’re all just mixing in my head right now. I’ve posted this last night, but I didn’t notice that it was on the draft (stupid me, haha!) So yeah.. here goes..
- 5.15AM We were still at Zambales yesterday at the village of Botolan and everyone woke up pretty early. Today was our departure (later that afternoon). They started making breakfast around 4am so my waking up around 5am was pretty much late. Haha! Yes, at that point I already woke up late.
- 7.25am the breakfast was served and it was just goood!! large and thick bacons (the kind that looked puffed by vitamins), some good sinangag rice, scrambled eggs, province-style dish of adobo (which was quite good, i tell you) and some early coffee. Breakfast was filled with stories too - wonderful day with friends Teng Palermo, Vanie Calobong and Tusa Montes. =) A lot of picture taking by this time already!
- 8.45am we pretty much started packing to go to the next village where we’d be doing our thing and take a bath (i learned ‘na magigib ng tubig’ since there weren’t any faucet around at all)
~ 9.45am we arrived at the 2nd destination and we settled down for a while and started to have the meeting on what stuff we’d do at the workshop that day.
~ 10.35am the workshop started and I was pretty much nervous. I was 2nd on teaching them and it was like uuuuuugh I’m nervous kind of feeling. But it turned out well. I had fun.
~ 12.20pm lunch was served. We had ground beef with veggies and raisins for lunch and we were so happy for the people’s hospitality. The Chieftain himself made their version of ensalada – fresh chopped onions, tomatoes, salt and pepper, sliced mangoes all soiled in sugar, water and vinegar. But what made the lunch good was the fern in it or a plant they called ‘paku’ it was fantastic! Can’t wait to be back on September.
~1.45pm we resumed the workshop for some light talk with the kids.
~3.20pm we wrapped up the workshop. Returned to our bahay kubo and started on some snacks and coffee while we packed our stuff.
~4.30pm We left Botolan, Zambales. The people are amazing. I learned a lot and their hospitality is just superb! Thank you!
~5.15pm on the road, sleeping and listening to music and waking up every now and then. Haha!
~6.37pm we arrived at Duty Free! Yay, some shopping first before we go for dinner!!
~9.36pm We reached Bulacan and had good dinner at Max’s restaurant. We weren’t really hungry, but we had to eat something because we were all reaaaaally exhausted already.
11.15pm we reached UST, finally! The whole weekend was exhausting but it was a great trip. We learned a lot. And we rode a cab and off we went home.
11.45pm I finally reached home. Yay! And I learned that my brother and I won the bet against mum and dad. So we have great bucks each, so double yaaaay!!!!