Typhoon Days!

There are no fog delays or snow days in the Philippines, but there are typhoon days!

It is still rainy season, and we have had 3 days of school cancelled so far due to typhoons. A typhoon is a tropical storm. The most recent typhoon was last Wednesday. The teachers and some of the students had already arrived at the school before it was cancelled. We got very wet on the way back to our apartment!

Here are some pictures from that day:

This is the stairway leading to the main entrance of the school.

It looked a little like a river!

We found some flip-flops at the bottom of the steps
the next day that had fallen off of people who walked
up the steps during the storm!

A local basketball court.

The road leading to the beach. No swimming today!

 

Many of the roads were flooded.

It was hard to find an empty trike because most
people wanted a ride to get out of the rain!

More to come soon from Boracay Island...

We All Scream for Ice Cream!

In case you were wondering, kids in the Philippines don't miss out on the ice cream man experience that many of us have grown to love. I remember how excited I was when I was in elementary school, and I heard the ice cream man's music on a hot summer night. If I was lucky, my parents and I would quickly collect money and run out to the front of our house to wait for him to pass. Many of us in America recognize something like this as the ice cream man:

Image Citation: Sharma, Vikrant. "Ice Cream Truck." Beta Daily. 26 March 2010. <http://www.betadaily.com/>

I thought you might find it interesting that in the Philippines, the ice cream man concept is the same, but he looks a lot different. It is a man that carries around a cooler on his back with ice cream in it. Instead of playing music, he rings a bell. I saw an ice cream man the other day and took a video of him with my FlipCam to share with you. See the video below:

More to come soon from Boracay Island! :-)