I haven't posted in several weeks because I've been on the go with spotty email access.

We've been travelling all over Luzon for the past 2 weeks. The language and history class portion of the program ended the last days of June.

Really, there's too much.

I will just begin with a list of what I've been doing...I am still sorting through what it all means.

DAWN
Payatas
Ateneo University
Weekend in Makati
Lahar Trail
Clark Air Force Base
Angles
Madapdap
Target / Aeta Village
Olongopo / Subic Naval Base
PREDA
Assumption Retreat House

These are the places we've been. A small picture of what we have seen: "Japayuki" women who worked as former " Filipina entertainers" in Japan and their Japino children, the dumpsite for Quezon City's trash where people live and find their livelihood, the most elite university in the Philippines, the destruction of Mt. Pinatubo, the toxic waste victims living around US bases, the girls working in girly bars for foreign customers in the the Philippines on sex tours, the children rescued from sex trafficking and adult prisons, the indigenous Aeta....

so much.

I, of course, don't have time to write about it. More if I can later.