more traveling

>(the picture from the cockpit, while i was driving)em> >wow -- my PST2 is over and it's time to go. go where??? i'm taking a week vacation. 4 other volunteers and myself are taking a super ferry -- a cruise ship style boat down to negros, an island in the eastern visayas. it's a 36 hour trip, and we're sleeping on bunk beds(on a ship, hmmm) that is if we sleep at all. Negros is a beautiful island, with lots of beaches. there are also lots of little islands off of negros that have good dive sites. so that's what i'm gonna do -- i'm getting my paddy dive certificate. it's really cheap here, only 7,000 pesos, and that includes equipment rental. Approx $150. I'll let you know how it goes -- and i should have good pictures, my mom sent me a new digital camera. Thanks Mamma!!! This definately is the club med of peace corp :) my classes, they went really well. everyone showed up for the second day of business training -- and for filipino's, that's unheard of. so the second day i taught about marketing strategies and basic marketing principle's -- for you marketing people, the 4 P's. i think alot was lost in translation, but our 1 on 1 sessions seemed to be pretty helpful to them. it's amazing to see the difference in people just based on where you grow up. some of the things that we take for granted, like exposure to tv, internet, higer education -- these people have never had. so just to talk about basic marketing and sales strategies to these business people that had no previous knowledge on the subject, just blew my mind. we are so blessed to live in a place where anything and everything is at our finger tips. and it's something that's hard to realize until you remove yourself from the situation -- and everything is gone. wow. this really is an amazing experience, and i am loving it -- but you can bet in 2 years, i am definately coming home!!!