Welcome to this guest edition by Issy. Today we woke up for morning prayer and discovered that the boys had been struck down by acute D & V. We rode the LRT to the Verbum Dei sisters' mission in central Manila, located near the Caritas compound. The boys managed to get there by taxi. Once we arrived we had a quick welcome before celebrating mass. Following an awesome buffet lunch we had a fiesta, with demonstrations of Philippino dancing and singing with us performing our now famous rendition of London's Burning and the Portuguese dance. We got to have an look around the sister's house, which had a beautiful garden with forget-me-nots and other species I've forgotten. The chapel, picture attached with this blog, had a simplistic beauty and was a nice place for a quick prayer. The welcome we received was so warm it felt like being part of a huge extended family and really reflected the global nature of our faith.
Taxi ride back to Quezon City showed us the outlying areas of Manila, and after a forage for food involving a rather tricky conversation with Pizza Hut we managed to eat Pizza whilst watching BLIND a film about a deaf/blind girl, and the teacher who opened up her world. This was great training and informative before our first full day at the deaf school. Most people collapsed exhausted in bed.
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