Also, Abby and I were recently in a parade. It was in the barangay of our host sister's mother-in-law, and it was the Santacruzan parade, which might have something to do with saints. In the case of the parade it was just a bunch of girls in ball gowns with lots of makeup walking all over town (in a typhoon). Did I mention we were hit by a typhoon? It was only signal 1 (the weakest) so all we had were 60 kmh winds and lot of rain, and an angry sea. It still flooded the low lying part of town, and apparently trashed our future host site. They had flooding, trees knocked down, etc. Nothing terribly severe, but it still caused a lot of damage. Abby and I are thinking we might geta 2nd story apartment. Haha. Anyway, the parade was really interesting, Abby was taken to a beauty parlor where they poofed and sprayed her hair mercilessly and covered her in makeup. They wanted to put makeup on me too, but I was able to avoid that. "Just a little lip shine!" they would say. No thanks.
So other than our project, we also have our barangay fiesta coming up, which involves a lot of videoke and eating, from what I understand. Everyone in town just makes a ton of food and then you walk to all of the houses of the people you know, and you eat and socialize. It sounds gut-bustalicious.

This is a picture of our island from the outrigger ferry boat. As you can see, it is an awesome island.

This is a picture of Puerto Galera.

This is Abby with my counterparts. Ate Lyn is to her left and Ate May is to her right.

The girls in Santacruzan were anywhere from 6 to 18 or so. Here's Abby being peppered with questions.

Aw, isn't she cute? Just like a little doll. Hahaha

Here's Abby in front of Tamaraw Falls on the way to Puerto Galera. It falls in a series of 7 different steps.

Here's Abby in the river, eating papaya and beans from the can. This was an outting with our host family.

Here's another parade pic. I'm wearing a Baraong Tagalog, the traditional dress shirt here.
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