More

    A Day in This Life

    Cebu City, Philippines.

    All In a Day’s Work

    5:30 am – Go running. And by running, I mean dodging stray dogs, motorcycles, roosters, trash, and suspicious puddles on the main street through town for about 3 minutes before calling it quits.

    6:00 am – Eat breakfast (today I had cold brown rice + cold oatmeal + milk and honey and it was delicious), shower, get ready, and above all else, avoid blowdrying hair.

    6:55 am – Commute via Jeepney. It’s about a 30 second commute.

    Jeepney.

    8:30 am – Start school.

    Children of Hope School Students.

    11:30 am – Lunch time. And thank goodness Jollibee delivers.

    Jollibee - Chicken and Rice.

    4:15 pm – Walk home. On the way home, make a pit stop for rice, produce, Oreos, and other essentials.

    4:30 pm – Carry groceries home on a busy street full of people, ignoring comments made about my nose and ignoring the fact that every item of clothing on my body is saturated with sweat.

    4:45 pm – Get home and bleach produce.

    Bleaching Vegetables in a bowl.

    (Sidenote on the bleaching: at the recommendation of other Americans living in Cebu as well as doctors back home in the States, we soak all fresh produce in a large bowl of water with a capful of bleach added to it. It sits for about 5 minutes and then it gets rinsed off with regular tap water. How this works is a mystery to me and I’d like to stop doing it because it’s ruined a few of my shirts. Plus it just seems weird. But then I heard about someone living in Cebu who got a nice fungus on his face from eating a mango straight from the market. So I think I’ll keep bleaching.)

    6:00 pm – Dinner at home, dinner with the staff, dinner with visitors and adoptive parents, or kids’ birthday dinners (yes, they celebrate all 83 birthdays). I love dinner. I love food.

    Birthday Party at Children's Shelter of Cebu.

    7:00 pm – Refrigerated chocolate + blog stuff.

    8:00 pm – Cuteoverload.com and other good uses of time.

    9:00 pm – Skype time, phone time, I-wish-I-could-hug-you-through-the-computer time.

    Skyping with friends.

    10:00 pm – The nightly roach patrol. This particular fellow was making his home under our bed, so we do not take this lightly.

    The process of finding and killing a cockroach.

    10:15 pm – Go to bed and dream about being on this beach. Forever. The End.

    Beautiful sand and ocean view.

    Related Posts

    Unsurpassable Worth

    -> CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE HERO ROSTER <- This post has been simmering away in my head and heart for a long time now. […]

    Camote Tops (Camote Fritters)

    There they all, all purpley and wonderful. Today’s post is a throwback to when I said I was going to do a ten-week series on […]

    Sweet Corn Maja

    {First, some sad news. There was a major earthquake in Cebu on Tuesday. While the kids and workers at CSC are safe, there are so […]

    Banana Cue

    This was one of my craziest and most fun days in the Philippines. And it is without a double THE MOST delicious snack. We made […]

    Filipino Humba

    Ok, so Filipino humba. I feel pretty comfortable calling this my favorite Filipino food, although it’s a close tie between this and Pancit. It is […]

    The Highlight Reel

    Whenever a visitor, staff, child, or adoptive family leaves CSC to go back home, the kids sing a goodbye song and everyone hugs. Like literally, […]

    When It’s All Said and Done

    What was the best thing about the year? Okay, what!? How am I supposed to answer that? There were so many incredible things about this […]

    The Journey Home

    I just ate one of my sister’s citrus scones with butter and honey that was in the welcome home basket from my family and I’m […]