Day 7

Day7. Got up and went to the Sacred Heart chapel in the side of the main university campus church (which is huge). We popped to the golden arches and I had a big Mac for breakfast. After this we packed and left for Manila on the LRT which is an above ground rail network. The stench in the city was awful, so fashioned a respirator out of my bandanna. We walked to some of the city memorials about the revolution in the 80's which was quite interesting. After this we had lunch all together. It was local food but I got a fish which hadn't been gutted and then had some peanut and oxtail soup. We then went to the sea front which smelt awful. The beach was made of rubbish and there was rubbish floating in the sea. It was unbelievable. We then went to Mass at B""". this was great and was a televised Mass however it was in Tagalog so we didn't understand much of the homily.... Apart from the bit about spiritual and physiological suffering (as these were English phrases). After we came back to the accommodation at the university, again using the LRT. On the way from the train station I hit my head on a concrete block, this hurt a lot. However I didn't suffer any lasting pain :P I got dinner with Davide, Chantelle, Vicky and Dom at the golden arches, top quality service and then we went to the pancake house for desert and then back to the accommodation where we immersed ourselves fully with the local custom by chatting with some of the other students staying in our halls.