Well hello there all you peoples. I haven´t blogged for the last few weeks as many of you know because I was busy having fun in the Philippines. Yes they did have internet, but it was so slow and unpredictable that it was rather impractible to try and blog every week. With that said, let us proceed to the issue at hand.

I actually don´t feel alot like writing right; mostly because I am really tired and I just want to go to bed. Nonetheless, I will attemp to regail you with my recent adventures, blunders, and yes even mishaps.

I guess it is obvious that I did finally get my ticket to the RPI. I was very glad to see it. Other than being rather long, the flight to Manila was rather insipid except for one fortunate experience. It happened in Manila. When I was going through the place where they check your visa and take a bunch of money from you the lady at the counter informed me that I had overstayed my welcome by two days She told me that I would have to extend my visa at another counter on the other side of the room. I asked her how much it would cost and she told me; 2000 pesos. Well, that was a lot of money but it wouldn´t have been half as bad if I had even had that much money on me. I fretted for half a second and then I thought, well, I´ll just plead mercy. We had been talking a little bit before this about what my parents were doing in the RPI and what I was doing, so I decided to appeal to her that I was basically a national since I had lived there half my life. Well, it worked. Yay.

Christmas was great. Not a too flowery sentence, but that´s the way that it was. I got to spend time with the fam and Replic too; not implying that he is not family, just that some people may not readily think of him when I say family. (Except maybe Darwin.) Stephanie, Ama´ and I went practically all the way down the river. That was an awesome day. Our whole family minus the absent members even took a day trip down the Tamlang one day.

Last day of 2006 I hiked out of the mountains with some friends and we bought a lot of fireworks. We hiked back in the same day and set them all off that night. I think that it was one of the best firework shows that we ever had. 

It all went by very quickly, and then I had to return to Spain. At first, I was rather sad when I arrived here. Understandably. I´m fine now though. Just six more months until the hoards come. Yay!!! ( :

Well, I encourage you all to continue to walk the straight and narrow without looking back, but remember to stop and sniff the roses.

Timotei