Visiting the Womens Correction Center

I visited the Womens correctional Unit this week. What a neet experience. Rory's first thought was why are we going to visit bad peple in jail? It was a nice time to talk to her about how people can change. And this facility was just that. A Rehabilitaion prison, for women to re-direct their intentions about life and get an education, religion etc. There was a program for graduating form like first grade up to 12th. And they put on a neet song and dance program as well. They sang a beautiful song about their mothers, and I have to admitt I was brought to tears. They also sang "Lupang hinirand" their national anthem, Rory drew the flag (and a jeepnee). After the program we met a lot of the ladies and visited with them the girls were a breath of fresh air for them.

The women collect all kinds of old things from the community one of my favorites is the old phone book pages rolled up into skinny long straws that they them weave into baskets. WoW! It is soo neat. We bought 6 of them.

Jeepnee Fascination

I have no idea how to spell that. So this is only a glimps of the worlds most cool bus. Well actually its a Jeep thing. It is modeled after the world war 2 military trasportation vehicles. The Filipinos liked them so much after the Americans left that they used them for their own transportation and the fad began. Now days they are totally pimped out and customized to each drivers style specs. Sme people put a lot of money into it to look flashy and others are just run down but still working. They are the most common form of transportation here. The locals ride them everywhere for something rediculous like (.40 cents) 20P or something. I have not had the luxry of riding in one yet. If we stay here for the long haul I plan to buy (don't tell Rich) a short one for our family's Mormon attack vehicle. It is basically an extended normal jeep, but "awesomer" nonetheless.

Breaking away from boredom

Well who'd of thot we'd be in anther country 2 months ago? And here we are in the bustling business district of Makati Manila having an experience of a lifetime. I say it' all Rich's fault. He was getting itchy after a 6 months break away from the Jazz bowl project. "So Heather if you could go anywhere in the world where would it be?"he asked, (I didn't say the Philippines) "hmmm, I don't know why do you ask pooping Dog?" (Lee family joke). " Do you have something up your sleeve?" Well after a couple months at Mckinsey he had started asking questions about opportunities for projects abroad, and when I showed interest too he moved full speed ahead to getting onto another project out of the States. But we had no idea that it would move so fast. How cool!! So here we are.