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BigBlueBugBlog: Dance Show!
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007. Two visiting dance major volunteers, Chelsea and Stephanie, created the Bliss Dance school over the summer break from classes. They taught four classes of kids every day hip-hop, modern, and ballet. These pictures were taken on the night of the culminating event of dance classes - the final dance show. Pre-show, the kids were electricity excited. Boys posing cool despite the fact they are wearing bright red lipstick. It was a full night for the BLISS gymnasium! Marvin, one of th...
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BigBlueBugBlog: December 2006
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Sunday, December 24, 2006. Home for the Holidays! Laura and I have returned home for the Holidays! We hope everyone is having a happy and healthy holiday season. We are only back for a few weeks, having a whirlwind tour visiting family and friends and preparing for our next adventure. in ASIA! Its been awhile since the last update, so there is plenty here to catch up on! Our last morning in the Pounamu Palace. We also took inspiring tours of a couple of permaculture farms. This would be the equivalent of...
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BigBlueBugBlog: June 2007
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Sunday, June 10, 2007. Welcome to the Philippines! Jiggy, Christian's cousin Candy's son (first cousin once removed to be exact! We were welcomed to Manila at the airport by Christian's Aunt Linda and Uncle Eddie. We had a wonderful few days at their house in the Quezon City section of Manila, enjoying lots of food, malls, and especially being with all of Christian's long lost cousins. As is the Filipino tradition with guests, we were treated like absolute royalty and were fed 5 times a day. 3 months lat...
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BigBlueBugBlog: July 2006
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Friday, July 21, 2006. Laura and I are off to Australia for three weeks! Monday, July 17, 2006. More fun in Wellington. As promised, here are our costumes from Boogie Wonderland night. 70's and 80's theme if you can't tell. I had no idea my hair could get so big or that Christian would look so good in tight red pleather! Lynette was a schoolgirl in that era, hence the uni. Libby, Lynette's five year old daughter, came to stay for her school holiday. This photo depicts the "best part" of baking.
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BigBlueBugBlog: Medical Missions
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Monday, July 02, 2007. Another service that Volunteer for the Visayans provides is periodic Medical Missions to severely impoverished communities. The free services included general checkup and consulation, dental (teeth extractions), eye exams, blood donation, circumcision, medicine distribution, and feedings. Getting your teeth pulled? Please come up to the stage! I've been told that I have surgeons hands and they sure seemed to work pretty well! Tools of the trade. Laura enjoying her meal with staff a...
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BigBlueBugBlog: Marabut, Samar Family Excursion
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007. Marabut, Samar Family Excursion. We went on a VFV sponsored family excursion to a beach called Marabut on the neighboring island of Samar. To get there we had to cross over the famed San Juanico Bridge, the longest (2km) bridge in the Philippines. This photo was taken just after crossing the center of the bridge on the way to Samar. They consciously made the bridge twist like an "L" for "Leyte" then "S" for "Samar". Here is Kenneth getting used to this whole swimming thing.
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BigBlueBugBlog: The Center and Plaza
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007. The Center and Plaza. The office and community center for VFV is adjacent to a basketball court or "Plaza" (as the locals call it) in the BLISS neighborhood. It's the place where the volunteers go to see what's happening. It's also where the locals, (mostly kids) go to participate in activities that the VFV facilitates or to simply hang out with each other and/or the volunteers. Here are some pictures from all the different activities that go on in just these two places. Many th...
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BigBlueBugBlog: Dumpsite Project
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Monday, July 02, 2007. The Philippines has the world's 12 th. Largest population, 88 million people. 47% of its people live on less than $2 per day, and 15% live on less than $1 per day. 40% live below the nationally set poverty line. Although you can get by on this type of salary here, you don't have much left over for things like medicine, school, even electricity and water. While I am looking at Wikipedia. Project" is located at the Tacloban. City Dump in a far flung baranguay. Imagine an American chi...
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BigBlueBugBlog: Sponsor Kid Program and Excursion
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007. Sponsor Kid Program and Excursion. The main focus of the VFV Sponsor a Kid program is to break the cycle of poverty by ensuring sponsored kids get an education. Without sponsorship, many of their families could not afford to send the child to school. It is also to ensure the children get proper nutrition so they stay healthy. You can of course email me for more info. Part of the VFV program is to pair an international volunteer with one of the sponsored kids. The volunteer i...
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BigBlueBugBlog: April 2007
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Monday, April 09, 2007. Happy Easter and Happy Passover from Israel! We have been spending the last couple of weeks in Israel with Laura's family. We attended the wedding of her cousin and celebrated Passover. The following is an update of the end of our bike trip - Laos. We are off to the Philippines in a couple of days, and will update the rest from there. We hope everyone is doing well, all the best from this end of the world! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Happy Easter and Happy Passover from Israel!
