well i am back in manila...the last few days in rizal were great!! the anniversary celebration and service was great...dennis sabiduria...the man that started the church...and his family came up for this special time...three of his kids came...james, 24, ruth, 21, and jonathon, 18...so we had a good time getting to know each other...on friday..the day of the big anniversary celebration we had a motorcade around the city of rizal...where we walked...and some drove with balloons and postors to celebrate the anniversary...after that we went to the local high school gym and had a service...there were 6 preachers each with a 20 minute time limit...we ended up 2 hours behind schedule...lol...ahhh baptist preach are the same no matter where you are in the world!!
after the service we had a big lunch and then played some basketball!! it was alot of fun...i was even able to see a friend from my first trip, Mark!! it was an awesome day!
on saturday the santiagos and the sabidurias and i went to a water resort for swimming and celebrating the 3rd wedding anniversary of Ace and May..it was alot of fun..we cooked out filipino style and i ate with my hands like a real filipino =] ace is teaching me to become a filipino because he is trying to marry me off...and my dad is encouraging him in the venture!
well...im am back in manila now...im staying in a hotel for a couple of days while the lyon's are out of town and then i will be staying with them the last two nights before i leave for cebu....paul and tina ebert from iba, zombales are coming in tonight and i am spending the day with them tomorrow..im very excited...i havent seen another american in 15 days!! i saw a white guy in the lift this morning and got really excited...i stared at him a little...(see i am becoming filipino!) but when he talked to me he was british, australian or russian or something...
well...seeing as it has stopped raining...im going to venture out and try and make my way over to the mall for some dinner....ive posted some pictures from rizal on my facebook there is a public link to the album so you dont have to have a fb profile to look at it:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=87529&id=588667832&l=567509d173
also...as im sure you were all very worried...i talked to my friend josh today and i am in the process of receiving the season 5 finale of the office through aim...im pretty excited...im gonna get some popcorn...peanut butter...and some C2 and watch it later tonight....its a special occasion =] just wanted to share that little fact...love you guys!!
Oh!! also! ive received some more information about my basketball camps later this summer...amazing!! for our first camp we already have 60 college students signed up and classes havent even begun! we are expecting over a hundred participants! we are going to have 5 weeks of camp where we will combine basketball and english....
and with that i am going to venture out into the city...oh man! (said with enthusiasm) its raining again! thats awesome...now i get to wear my rainboots!! its a good day!
*chels*
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