The day was filled
with beautiful sights. We started with
lunch and the home of the Head of the Science Department at Leyte National
High--it was her resort home. In the
Philippines, a resort home refers to a private home that one uses to get away, not a resort where people can rent rooms. She was so kind to invite us and she had many people over for Fiesta.
We rented a multicab that day, I love all the cool forms of transportation in the Philippines. So far we have the tricycle, multicab (smaller version of jeepney), Jeepney, van, and motorcycle. All of these vehicles (except the van) do not have windows, but Filipinos use plastic to cover when it rains.
Our first stop was MacArthur's Memorial, where we saw the statues of MacArthur reinacting when he stayed true to his word and arrived in the Philippines to save them from the Japanese. The statues were huge.
After that we journeyed to the San Juanico bridge, which was breathtaking and reminded everyone of the Golden Gate Bridge in California.
Finally we walked to one of the highest points in Tacloban and took in
the city, there were many disaster zones we had driven by and looked
down upon from that point of view. It was quite incredible to see the city from that perspective.
We rented a multicab that day, I love all the cool forms of transportation in the Philippines. So far we have the tricycle, multicab (smaller version of jeepney), Jeepney, van, and motorcycle. All of these vehicles (except the van) do not have windows, but Filipinos use plastic to cover when it rains.
Our first stop was MacArthur's Memorial, where we saw the statues of MacArthur reinacting when he stayed true to his word and arrived in the Philippines to save them from the Japanese. The statues were huge.
After that we journeyed to the San Juanico bridge, which was breathtaking and reminded everyone of the Golden Gate Bridge in California.
Finally we walked to one of the highest points in Tacloban and took in
the city, there were many disaster zones we had driven by and looked
down upon from that point of view. It was quite incredible to see the city from that perspective.
Throughout our travels we got a better idea of the tremendous amount of damage that Typhoon Yolanda left, it is so sad to see the remnants of her destruction. It was positive to see the city being rebuilt though, nothing will stop these people from moving forward and it was nice to see that! It was also evident how instrumental international Aid organizations have been to the rebuilding process, I saw signs from organizations like USA Aid, Samaritan's Purse, World Vision, Tzu Chi Foundation and many more.
We ended the evening with the Parade of Lights, which included a tremendous amount of people, and many beautiful performances and floats, it went for over two hours.
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| Sir Aldim's Students --Galileo Class |
Oh and my mom has been following along, and loves hearing everything too :-)
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