To celebrate we are leaving Manila for the weekend to go on our last beach trip. Lest anyone think the Philippines or the former Philippine Islands as they used to be called is not exactly a beach resort place, like Florida. To get to any decent beach from Manila it is a good two hours at the earliest. We will be traveling about three hours with friends to a beach resort that will be full of all sorts of adventures I am sure. Hooray.
My body has decided to celebrate its upcoming departure by pretending it has a third parasite. Seriously, you know you are in a developing country when you keep an entire cupboard of stool and urine sample cups in your home for future use. You also know you are in a developing country when you have no qualms blogging about because it is just that normal.
Also I have to point out a few things that make me laugh here:
The use of the word sexy, still. People think the word sexy is synonymous with pretty. This makes things very awkward when they say this to your children. It also is weird when people, whom you are not married to, call you sexy. I have tried to explain this to my maid and driver countless times but they can't stop. So I will adjust.
Apparently when referring to testicles people say eggs. I was really confused for about three minutes the other day.
My daughter claims she speaks Tagalog, she doesn't, but we let her think she does and it cracks us up.
PS Props to my hubby who got a 4/4 in Tagalog. Yay Seth! He really does speak Tagalog, or at least we let him think he does.
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Yay on the 4/4! Doesn't that mean he'll never have to test in it again? I seem to remember our friend who got a 4/4 in Spanish saying that.
Yeah no more testing in Tagalog and I think that means good things in the distant future when it comes to senior FS. Yay Seth!
OK, I just laughed out loud and snorted... about the "eggs" part. You crack me up!
The sexy thing annoys the crud out of me too. I have to tell Cora not to use it all the time. Addie would hear it every time she put on her swim suit. Arg!
Did I ever tell you about when I returned from the States after living in Japan. I got into LAX and went down the escalator to customs. There was a big sign on the wall with the picture of the US President that said, "Welcome to the United States of America" and I started to cry!
This is weird because 1)it's Japan for Heaven's sake. I can drink the water, and I never get parasites. It is a first-world country and 2)it was in 1992 when I'd only been there for the summer! However, the flight is long so I chalk it up to jet lag.
Stella is only about 2 months older than Sariah, but she seems like she's about 5 years older. The size is only part of it. Sariah is just funny; lots of blond curly hair.
So if you can't wait to return, I can't wait to see you!!!! Love you lots.
Seth and Sunny - we're winding up in Nairobi as well (orders came through today!), leaving post two days after a constitutional referendum, and then at FSI for 10 months before Brussels. I expect we will be seeing each other again soon--all the best with packing out.
- Jonathan Howard
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