We have also had interesting ice breaker games each week-the first time was that horrible game that I have always hated, where you have something on your back and you are supposed to ask yes/no only questions to figure out who the person or what the thing is on your back. I didn't ever like to play this with people I already new. Come to find out I was Helen Keller-I learned this when I cheated and pulled my paper off and looked at it. They certainly chose interesting things to put on people's backs-one was Manny Pacquiao (a famous boxer in the Philippines-I only know this because he was in this HUGE fight not long after we arrived here). I really think that you would have to have lived under a rock in the Philippines not to have known him. Someone was Santa Claus-it's really hard to answer yes/no questions about Santa. Someone was the Great Wall of China and someone was Bill Gates-a Canadian lady who had a very difficult time figuring this out-but she didn't just cheat like me.
The 2nd game was called "Never Have I Ever" Everyone puts their hand out on the table and each person says "never have I ever ______________" You try to say something that other people would have done but that you haven't. Each time you have done the thing someone says you have to tuck in a finger and whoever has fingers left at the end is the winner. My friend Fran was really sneaky-she is from Chile-and said "never have I ever cooked a turkey for Thanksgiving" thinking that she would get me for sure. Thank you to my mother in law and all my great aunts on Daddy's side for always cooking the turkey. She thought it was hilarious that I had never done that. But she ended up winning anyway!
Our first meeting was focused on our own neighborhood and there was stuff there that I didn't know! Heidy in the blue shirt above and another friend Melissa are leading the group and they rented a jeepney for us to ride around in for the neighborhood tour. It was fun but I will say again that I am glad that I don't have to drag groceries and 3 kids around on one of these all the time-they are also made for people who are short! Not a lot of spare headroom!
At our next meeting we focused on the area surrounding our neighborhood and went to the deli that I was thrilled that someone told me about when we had been here about a month, did things like post office, banks, another neighborhood with some interesting shopping areas, and then something that I had not been brave enough to do yet-the wet market-some of these pictures you may not want to look at! It is called the wet market because they prepare the meat to be sold there and it isn't wrapped in cellophane the way I like mine and they just hose down the floor. The smell was awful when you started getting close to the meat section. There is other stuff there besides food though-which I didn't know until we went-stuff for kids like a giant Oriental Trading catalog and a friend showed me a stall where they have kids costumes from all different countries around United Nations day-so I will be going back in the fall-it didn't smell bad there!
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