There's this joke: How many Filipinos can you get into a bus? ONE MORE!
It's a funny joke to us volunteers because it's true. When I say funny, I mean funny in the totally obnoxious and annoying and completely inconvenient sort of way. So really, not funny. The joke can be mixed up to fit your specific situation: how many fighting cocks, brooms, televisions, drunken fools, old nuns, school children.....
But as un-funny as it is when a fish seller with 3 stinky buckets in tow gets on your side car after you swear, swear not one more person can fit (not to mention 7 kilos of fish), I know this is another one of those things I will dearly miss about the Philippines when I leave come July.
The Bering Sea and Me
About Me
- Katrina
- In April of 2005 I moved to the Hottest Country on Earth to volunteer as an environmental educator. I traveled at times for hours to find an internet cafe, where I started this blog as a means to inform my family and friends back home that I hadn't died. Now I'm back home in America, but my blog continues because I still live in the middle of nowhere, I still have limited means of communication, I still hope to keep in touch with my friends and family, and I still like to take frequent breaks from work.