bartending pinoy style

so i had my first bartending class in hoskyn on saturday. wow, what an experience. so to start off, this is the first real work that i have done since i got here in march -- and it's now november. so things move really slowly here, to say the least. i went into the city on thursday to buy the supplies, they didn't have the money of course, so i fronted around 4,000 pesos myself. hopefully they will have them returned to me today or tomorrow. cross your fingers. so all day friday i spent making a really great powerpoint and notes, i must have spent 7 hours on it. i asked my filipino counterpart nino, if it would be ok to do the powerpoint and he said yes. remember, a filipino will never tell you no, that would just be rude. so at the end of my 7 hours of getting this awesome powerpoint ready, nino comes in and says that we can't use the powerpoint tomorrow, that we have no lcd screen ---WHAT!!! so i asked him how long he had known about this -- he said since yesterday. WHAT!!! i just spent 7 hours making this ppt, and he just spent 7 hours watching me, and he knew the whole time. he said, "we will just use it next week" NO, it will be useless next week. so i decided to go to bed and just wing it tomorrow. So finally it's saturday morning, 9am sharp, everything is set up and i am there waiting for my students -- everyone shows up at 9:30 and we begin. i used as much ilonggo as i knew, the rest was in english. everyone was so excited to learn -- and even more excited to taste the drinks. the class had 2 sessions of 3 hours each and we learned 20 drinks. so hopefully they all show up next week.