Magandang umaga! Good morning!
Hi ihr Lieben!
Habs wieder mal geschafft ins Internet zu kommen...
Ach, seufz, Englisch ist ja sooooooo anstrengend zu tippen, aber let's try. (in Ruecksichtnahme auf meine international guests...) I'm now here in Manila for almost 2 weeks and it's still exciting, difficult, funny, hot... The last days I was ill again, because of the heat you sweat so much and the air condition is so freezing that you get a cold so easily. But thanks of Lemocin and 1 day in bed I managed to be fine again.
Well, there's a lot happening here. The last days I worked in the Human Resources Department of Bukas Palad and in the Center for Life. The Human Resources help especially young people to get a job and they have the so called "School of Life" which is a seminar for young people about all sorts of topics such as Family Planning, Politics, Time Management and Business Skills, Healthy Food, Community Work etc. A great problem in the Philippines are the 5 months contracts for employees which have to look for a new job every 5 months which is rather difficult for them and so they can hardly support their families.
The family is everything for the Filipinos, most families have between 6 to 12 children.
In the Center for Life they do also home visitations in the "slums", they try to inform families about good treatment for children, the natural system of contraception, family planning etc. it's intersting, but for me as a european the attitudes of the Filipinos, especially in Bukas Palad are very different. Abortion, condoms, the pill and every other method of contraception is a sin (Suende!), because it's killing. You shall not kill!
So we visited families in the neighbourhood and it was ... hm... heavy, shocking. Families of up to 12 people live in a small cellar whole without windows, without a bathroom, without beds.
The smell is the worst - you smell a mixture of excrements, garbage, smog, dirt .. it's disgusting. Seeing ill children, so poor that they haven't got something to eat every day. They can't pay for school, a doctor...
To be honest after this walk I was nearly vomiting, but I could control my self. I really don't want to now how the poorest area in Manila is, Tondo - where the garbage people live.
Ok, so this weekend I told you that Theresa and I wanted to come with Feli to the countryside, 4 hours from Manila. Today we wanted to start, but we couldn't because yesterday they said in the News that there where attacks of govermental rebells in the neighbourtown of Felis town.
Well, we were quite disappointed, but it's just too dangerous.
So we stay the weekend in Manila, and now Theresa and I will go to eat Halo Halo (yummi) - a desert.
I write soon and will also answer to the emails, I have a lot of time this weekend.
DENISE!!! so glad to hear from you - would you give me your email address or just write me> stephaniehoefle@hotmail.com ( =
So keep smiling you all, I would love to go skiing with you!!!
Love Stephanie
Habs wieder mal geschafft ins Internet zu kommen...
Ach, seufz, Englisch ist ja sooooooo anstrengend zu tippen, aber let's try. (in Ruecksichtnahme auf meine international guests...) I'm now here in Manila for almost 2 weeks and it's still exciting, difficult, funny, hot... The last days I was ill again, because of the heat you sweat so much and the air condition is so freezing that you get a cold so easily. But thanks of Lemocin and 1 day in bed I managed to be fine again.
Well, there's a lot happening here. The last days I worked in the Human Resources Department of Bukas Palad and in the Center for Life. The Human Resources help especially young people to get a job and they have the so called "School of Life" which is a seminar for young people about all sorts of topics such as Family Planning, Politics, Time Management and Business Skills, Healthy Food, Community Work etc. A great problem in the Philippines are the 5 months contracts for employees which have to look for a new job every 5 months which is rather difficult for them and so they can hardly support their families.
The family is everything for the Filipinos, most families have between 6 to 12 children.
In the Center for Life they do also home visitations in the "slums", they try to inform families about good treatment for children, the natural system of contraception, family planning etc. it's intersting, but for me as a european the attitudes of the Filipinos, especially in Bukas Palad are very different. Abortion, condoms, the pill and every other method of contraception is a sin (Suende!), because it's killing. You shall not kill!
So we visited families in the neighbourhood and it was ... hm... heavy, shocking. Families of up to 12 people live in a small cellar whole without windows, without a bathroom, without beds.
The smell is the worst - you smell a mixture of excrements, garbage, smog, dirt .. it's disgusting. Seeing ill children, so poor that they haven't got something to eat every day. They can't pay for school, a doctor...
To be honest after this walk I was nearly vomiting, but I could control my self. I really don't want to now how the poorest area in Manila is, Tondo - where the garbage people live.
Ok, so this weekend I told you that Theresa and I wanted to come with Feli to the countryside, 4 hours from Manila. Today we wanted to start, but we couldn't because yesterday they said in the News that there where attacks of govermental rebells in the neighbourtown of Felis town.
Well, we were quite disappointed, but it's just too dangerous.
So we stay the weekend in Manila, and now Theresa and I will go to eat Halo Halo (yummi) - a desert.
I write soon and will also answer to the emails, I have a lot of time this weekend.
DENISE!!! so glad to hear from you - would you give me your email address or just write me> stephaniehoefle@hotmail.com ( =
So keep smiling you all, I would love to go skiing with you!!!
Love Stephanie
stephanie around the world - 26. Nov, 08:31
