pinoyyyy

after the longest flight ever which i thought i slept all the way through but woke up and found out i still had two hours left i have the biggest bum pain ever it actually is starting to hurt to be lazy and sit down
we then had a shuttle bus to the other airport where we then had twenty minutes till our flight to Negros (its a place not an offensive term for our black brothers) to where cousins and uncle were waiting for us.

while sitting at the airport i realized how sad it was that we were the only western people about to get on a flight for the right reasons to help and too learn from an amazing culture there was three other white guys on our flight all in which seemed to be with a filipina wife all who seemed to have become so westernized and that of the Essex girl type commons i had come to get way from (not that there arent some very lovely people in essex and one of which i am very fond of but you get whaat i mean) it was almost quite sickening to watch these men turn somthing of too me an aalmost perfect culture into there own insecurities and ignorances.

landing in negros we walked down to collect our bags we walked into the baggage reclaim after having a text from my uncle saying we had a welcome committee outside. we were bombarded by a small girl all in purple who ran from the other side of the baggage room it wasn't till she was clinging to all of us we realised it was our friend from manila 23 year old Lourdes "come quickly everyone is over here" we were then welcomed by four other familiar faces. presuming this was our welcoming committee we all walked outside smiling and laughing at the thought of old friends it was then when we got out side we found the real welcoming committee who looked just as surprised and happy we did to see our friends from manila it seems they had flown from manila at the same time as us but on a different airline and had come for the wedding so we piled into the back of a van crammed full of smiling sweaty people jokes flied in a mix of both Tagalog and English.

We arrived at Emma's to the smell of cooking and all shared three whole chickens and a pile of rice before heading back to our hotel for some well needed sleep.

then after the morning trek back on to the massive subdivision i arrived back at Emma's house ready to go to a traditional Filipino wedding/BBQ the sweaty walk taought me one thing after nearly being mowed down by a moped

KFC deliver!

'Nuff Love&respect