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Everywhere you go you ride in a jeepney and it's very crowded. The traffic here is incredible! There are no stop signs, traffic lights, rules to the road, no lanes but no one gets upset either. They're used to it. I feel like I'm about to die every time we drive down a road!

On our first day we went to an authentic Filipino buffet for lunch. This is my plate. Luckily I had a Filipino next to me in line who could tell me what things were. I passed up the fish heads, intestines and blood pudding. One really cool thing though is they had a dish that was my favorite growing up called ponsit (it's the noodles at the top of the plate).

This was our first school to do an assembly at. We ended up with about 500 kids. It was a lot of fun and the kids were so excited. The kids have some trouble with english so we've been trying to make things more simple in what we say. Today we will start having the Filipino team do more of the up front stuff. Our goal is to make sure they are well equiped to keep doing this once we leave. Many of the principles have already asked when we can return to do it again.

Well, it's Friday morning here and time to leave for our first assembly for today. I'll update more as I can. Today is very busy so I'm sure I won't be able to get on until tonight. One assembly today will have about 2,000.