April 1, 2013

Strange week..... ( this was the way he started his string of emails)
well... I dressed a dead man..... I carried a casket..... I talked to a Russian........, I ate a frog.... I helped kill a bunch of chickens.... Lots of stuff :P
I asked him what kind of frog
Oh, no idea about the frog.... And we got the frog at a members birthday party, Apparently he is important... The mayor and a senator showed up... So lots of food and really bad karaoke, It was a great party, they did the roasting a whole pig thing. Also they had a bunch of kids run up and the gangnam style dance, which was interesting. Oh and you can tell exactly which family are rich, their kids are really chubby!! It is pretty great...And a member died, so the had the elders help in the funeral... So we dressed him in temple clothes, helped carry the casket and other odd stuff. They also have rice pudding stuff here, except not... See the picture. Well I am trying to send pictures, but it doesnt work well..
The language is difficult... It is a jello language... since it is rarely written, it shifts from area to area. For example, there is cebuano j and y, I "learned" Cebuano y, but it was a cebu based dialect.. because our teachers learned it in cebu, here, it is different, mostly in the phrasing and shortcuts only thankfully. But still not what I learned :P
I asked how he gets around
And i get around in either the back of a multicab (a truck with a cover) that you shove about 20 people into the back of, or in the side car of a motorcycle
we have family home even with a less active family generally every sunday

This is a result of a game they were playing at FHE