Lunch out with the gang.
The Drive Home
We have survived our first week and, in spite of some highs and lows (or perhaps because of) it has been a pretty amazing week.
This country is just, well, amazing!!!! The people are incredibly courteous, outgoing and friendly and it is a city of contrasts. On our way to and from work (an experience in itself) we go through some incredibly impoverished parts where people have their homes underneath motorway bridges and within 10 minutes we are passing some reasonably lavish homes. The are a heaps of brand new cars on the roads and then there are the motorbikes with sidecars and, of course, the jeepneys.
There are the shops in corrugated iron huts, the street side markets and then there are the INCREDIBLE shopping malls. Last night we went for dinner to the The Mall of Asia…..wow!!!!! You can get any major chain there: Dorothy Perkins, Marks and Sparks, Gap, Haagen Das etc etc. We had dinner at Italiannis – fabulous food. In general the food here is fabulous too!!!! You can get any cuisine you want and it is soooo well done.
Yesterday we went out for lunch with some of the trainees to have some authentic Filipino food. We had Kare Kare which was pork. I didn’t ask what part of the pork though as I suspect I wouldn’t have liked what I heard so I just ate it and it was delicious. We also had crispy pork and a seafood dish. It was all really yummy.
We had our first taxi ride yesterday. The secret to taxis here is to either insist on the meter, agree a price or get out. We went with some Telecomers that have been here for a while so it was nice to be inexperienced hands. We were actually going to the MOA to see the fireworks that are apparently on every Friday night but poor Annette that was organising it had been told 8:30 and they were actually on at 7 so we missed them but dinner was lovely.
Today is Saturday and I had a really good sleep in and spent an hour on the treadmill in the gym. I am having a really lazy day in the hotel and I am really enjoying it. It’s been a long time since I could be completely lazy. J
This country is just, well, amazing!!!! The people are incredibly courteous, outgoing and friendly and it is a city of contrasts. On our way to and from work (an experience in itself) we go through some incredibly impoverished parts where people have their homes underneath motorway bridges and within 10 minutes we are passing some reasonably lavish homes. The are a heaps of brand new cars on the roads and then there are the motorbikes with sidecars and, of course, the jeepneys.
There are the shops in corrugated iron huts, the street side markets and then there are the INCREDIBLE shopping malls. Last night we went for dinner to the The Mall of Asia…..wow!!!!! You can get any major chain there: Dorothy Perkins, Marks and Sparks, Gap, Haagen Das etc etc. We had dinner at Italiannis – fabulous food. In general the food here is fabulous too!!!! You can get any cuisine you want and it is soooo well done.
Yesterday we went out for lunch with some of the trainees to have some authentic Filipino food. We had Kare Kare which was pork. I didn’t ask what part of the pork though as I suspect I wouldn’t have liked what I heard so I just ate it and it was delicious. We also had crispy pork and a seafood dish. It was all really yummy.
We had our first taxi ride yesterday. The secret to taxis here is to either insist on the meter, agree a price or get out. We went with some Telecomers that have been here for a while so it was nice to be inexperienced hands. We were actually going to the MOA to see the fireworks that are apparently on every Friday night but poor Annette that was organising it had been told 8:30 and they were actually on at 7 so we missed them but dinner was lovely.
Today is Saturday and I had a really good sleep in and spent an hour on the treadmill in the gym. I am having a really lazy day in the hotel and I am really enjoying it. It’s been a long time since I could be completely lazy. J
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