Yeah, I have no clue. But a pony tail seems to be the answer!
My sleep schedule is still crazy and this weekend I have probably made it even worse! I slept ALL DAY Saturday. And I do mean all day. Got off work at 8:30am and came back to the hotel… dropped off stuff and had breakfast. The usual routine. I checked e mail and IM’d with a few friends before crashing about 11am. I didn’t wake up until after 7:30pm. Watched a movie, went downstairs for a quick dinner at Circles, came back up and fell asleep again a little after 11pm. I didn’t wake up till 5:30am!!!!!! That’s a lot of sleeping!!
Sunday I had the hotel transportation service take me to Mall of Asia. Figure why not, nothing else to do. And it has been raining all day. From the looks of the radar, we were getting bands from Typhoon Igme that was WAY TO OUR NORTH (don’t freak out, it’s not going to hit me) It is about to hit Taiwan. But just like when a hurricane is going to hit South FL, how we can get some of the outer rain bands at home… the same thing here. This is just rain showers with a little wind. I promise!! http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/ if you don’t believe me
The MoA as it is called, is well, just a big mall. I couldn’t find Hooters (Sorry Dave & Matt) so no pictures or t-shirts for you. I did look!!!! Honestly, I wasn’t that impressed with the mall; or maybe I wasn’t in the shopping mood. Who knows. But I got a few things and called the hotel about 4 hours later to come pick me up. It was still drizzling – so I grabbed the complimentary umbrella from my room and headed out again. Hard Rock for lunch sounded good. Usually good music, not so bad food, fun atmosphere, all that fun stuff. Yeah, at 4pm though – it is dead. HAHA Oh well. Food was, eh, okay. Certainly nothing to get excited about. The root beer was flat – and when I asked him to change me to a Sprite, he said they can’t do that it is a different order. WHAT!?!? Fine, bring me another flat root beer. I’m not drinking tap water.
Something I did want to comment on was with the street peddlers. Now I have told you about them selling things, okay that is fine. But today was a whole different level. When the hotel taxi was bringing me back, we had stopped at a light. A young girl was pulling this older lady along who did not have her eyes open and they were holding a can to collect money. I watched her drag this old woman around from car to car waiting for them to roll down the window and hand them money. I thought how horrible to use that as a ploy!! But when I got back to my hotel, I was looking out the window and saw it going on at the corner below me. And I counted 6 of them at one time!!!! Two sets on two of the streets and one on each of the other streets. I couldn’t believe it! So Nana & Mommom – next time I am in town, we’ll go pull you through the street asking for money. No, I am kidding. I would NEVER do such a thing!!
Came home and called my Aunt’s house. Congratulations again to Mike & Kindra. I hope your celebration at the house was fun and memorable. Yeah, Kindra, sorry there was no ‘Rollin on the River’ across the backyard. J I hope to see you guys when I am home in a couple weeks.
I feel horrible because I passed out early last night – last thing I remember is 7:05pm – and work up just before 5 this morning. However I have 3 text messages and 3 missed calls from Aimee about Jollie picking me up last night. I hadn’t heard back from her Saturday/Sunday and didn’t think we were going to be able to do anything. I just send Aimee a text apologizing that I had fallen asleep. Apparently I was tired because I slept a crazy amount this weekend!
Well, tonight I actually get to teach. I’ll be teaching the post paid work group an application called CTI (those Alltel people who are reading this know what I’m talking about). However – it is not complicated so I am trying to figure out how to fill the time!!! Maybe I can pull in some calls to show it in action. The computer based training part they take is only 10 minutes. And there isn’t a training environment for them to use. So, I am not sure how this is going to work. Especially given when I teach it back home, it takes like 30 minutes!!! Hmmmm I’ll figure something out.
I’m looking forward to coming home. The Philippines has been nice and opened my eyes to a lot of things I would never have experienced back in the States. I will miss my bed being turned down, laundry done & pressed for me, being driven everywhere, and greeted by 8 – 10 people saying “good morning” or “Good evening ma’am”.
Miss everyone and I will see you soon!
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