All the staff at the office seem really nice although until I learn Tagalog of course they could be saying anything about me. Just celebrated my birthday at work today and I had to buy cake and Coke- double calories!! Very easy though u ring up place an order and a super large chocolate cake complete with my name iced on top arrived for 6 quid! Most things are very easy to organise here - apart from houses that is ( We are being a bit fussy and want the location, the park, the pool ,tennis, work and school all in the same place. this of course won't happen and a compromise will have to be agreed next week!)! U can get almost anything delivered even a MD Happy Meal!
I spent the first week with the other new volunteers learning about VSO and being taken to various government departments to get permits/visas sorted/open bank accounts. This week I wrote a plan of what I'll do in the first 6 months which should now involve lots of meetings on different islands. The whole family is off for 10 days the first week in June to a conference on a small island, an essential part of my inital briefing of course.
As I'm working on a project I'm left to my own devices in my own office which is fine whilst I have a 101 things to organise but I suppose the novelty may wear off. Anyway now have 5 weeks of language training before I have to do anything else. Most importantly off to our first beach trip this weekend for my birthday - lots of pictures for u all next week bet your looking forward to that eh?:) BTW the pictures are not of work - of course but our shared pool, street and laundry...............in Philam where we live. Marc and Gianna hanging out at the laundry ( thats 25p per kilo for the washing to be done for u)
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