baguio and nueva ecija

Went to Nueva Ecija last week for an environmental camp at my friend Caitlin's high school, but first went to Baguio for the weekend. Baguio is sort of like the Pittsburgh of the Philippines.

outside of baguio

shashank and emily

trent

cooking

mugging with mel

narra to puerto princesa

fat will

 

This post turned out to be kind of long. Sorry!

It’s now been three months since this happened, and many people who may read this have already heard the story. I didn’t write about at the time because, in addition to there being no blog, there were no pictures. Everyone who has listened to this story, before even asking me if I’m OK, has asked if there are pictures. To their and my disappointment, there weren’t, or at least until today when Petra Stumpf, the nearest volunteer to me, emailed them to me under the subject line ‘fat will’. So we’re good to go now.

neat chart

the filipino version of this chart is 70% rice. also glad to see them repping grapefruits.

peace corps jurassic park

this guy caught in Mindanao.

national treasures

National Treasures, by Amze Emmons

"We normally see these kinds of documentary images as topical, disposable, something to process and consume quickly. By sifting through the pictorial evidence of displacement and strife, I discover what is hidden in plain view: essential visual elements that let the eye linger and keep the viewer from turning the page."

we be bloggin

Well, that took a while. I'm now over a year into Peace Corps service, and I've just now overcome my laziness to do this. Let's hope this goes better than past blogging attempts. 

photos, april to august

bummer parade

goof troop. me in the back

we climbed up 65 of these joints. fell flat on my face about half that many times.

from my balcony

first remedial reading/peer tutoring lesson. Princess Rolyeen Medriano on the right.

Eran Rico and Annecar Rubio on the left giving reading tests/killing it

May IT training

warming up

damn, looks important