Some of the early shots from my time here in Manila – I apologize, many of them are poor shots/poor quality, but my aim has been to just capture as best I can, when I can, primarily with a little point-and-shoot camera. (Sidenote: at this point, for the sake of confidentiality, I won’t be posting direct photos of the children who are living at Sunflower. But I assure you, they are adorable :) This ended up being a random selection as I am tired of wrastling with computers, so here goes...

I've been here for a month! At Fort Santiago, overlooking the Pasig River and into Manila proper

Doing the tourista thing at Fort Santiago, remnants of the Spanish, then American, then Japanese, then American again occupations.

Kind of classic part of downtown Manila (even if this is a bad, out-the-window photo, you get the idea) - huge numbers of people living in tiny tiny spaces.

The totally beautiful chapel and courtyard at the San Lazaro Hospital grounds.


A familiar scene these days - Mier and Joyce (and Lorrie and I) up in the tutorial room at Extended Child Care, doing paper work, pretending like we enjoy it.



Lorrie sitting outside the Extended Child Care center with some Ang Tulay kidlets, as they prepare to head home. The green bag in the bottom right corner is a sack of rice that was given to each family.



Shiomar (right) and Mier took us out for bbq one night. i tried chicken intestine. chewy, if you were wondering.

Michael helping April "play" basketball...

My attempts at joining the world of filipino cuisine...i'm still working on it, but when i cooked this (a few days after I arrived) i was very impressed with myself (for those of you Street Cafe-r's, this kitchen is like a third-world-version of the mustard seed kitchen :)

Before-bed story time with Ate Nicole