Pics Nov 7th thru 10th

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This is a picture of me at the Internet Station that I found at the bottom of Farmers Plaza near the food court. This is a must visit if you need to use a computer in Manla. Of the eight or nine Internet Cafes that I had seen in Farmers Plaza (and the three that I had visited), for one P25/hr this is the only one that allowed you to install software no questions asked. So I loaded it up with Skype, FireFox, and Irfanview, and I felt at home.

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This is the first day that I had come to Montalban Rizal to stay at the He Cares boys home. Five of the boys were already on the basketball court, today was a free day for them. The gentleman on the left is one of the three Service Care providers that stay with the nine boys that live at the home. The other boy in the picture is one of the neighborhood kids that was there at the basketball court. Basketball sounds like a pretty normal everyday thing that is also done in the U.S., however you wouldn't be able to find a single pair of tennis shoes on the feet of any of these boys.


















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Here is a picture that I took when I was in Erap City. All of the homes here are raw oneroom 15'x15' cement block buidings with tin roofs. You never need heat in the Philipines butyou really could use air conditioning. None of the homes have the latter, most of them don'thave running water, and some of them don't even have electricity. Though this picture seemsto be a little sad there really isn't anything to be sad about. Life here is hard but thereis a lot of happiness here, more than I ever find in the U.S. on a regular basis. Here,though there are hard moments that the smiles are gone, you can find smiles every day of theweek.

















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This is the inside of one of the homes. This will give you a better idea of the rawness that they are living with. Once again I don't share this to bring sympathy. If anything I wish that the most of the people in the U.S. could understand the laughter and love that is found here. There is a happiness here that, though is missing from time to time, is much more prevalent.