Well it’s been a few days since I’ve posted, I blame it on finishing up my med school application. Finishing it here was an interesting endeavor to say the least. Now that it’s over I should be back to fairly regular postings.
Last night, after a period of stifling heat, the clouds opened up and dumped water on the school. I was surprised at how well the thatched roof kept the water out. It was quite pleasant to sleep next to the window and have a slight mist of water come in and cool me off. I must say thank goodness for my mosquito net. I guess the rain drove the critters to seek shelter as there were huge swarms over the fluorescent bulb in our room. After turning off the light I dove for the safety of the net, one mosquito did get in with me but I quickly dispatched it. Of course the next morning everything was a mudslide. The red clay-like soil sticks to everything and creates a nice thick layer of mud on your shoes.
Yesterday I talked for a while with my roomie, Jade Emperor. He was telling me some interesting Filipino folklore. Apparently, if the women leave their underwear out on the clothesline all night, they will become pregnant. In order to back this up he told me stories of women doing this and becoming pregnant with baby squids and octopuses, which he apparently had seen... Needless to say I was a little confused. Also, he believes that cases of appendicitis are often due to overeating... We then talked a lot about local witch doctors on the island and how they supposedly succeed where traditional medicine fails. I won’t pass judgement on something I know little about, but I’m skeptical. Then I found out about an incident here at the school a couple years ago where a student broke into a teacher’s room and stabbed her multiple times with a kitchen knife. Wait, so why wasn’t this mentioned on the brochure? I thought I was staying at an island paradise?
It looks like it might rain again tonight, the mosquitos are certainly out in full force. My bug repellant is essentially worthless, they even seem to like it. I played some guitar for the kids tonight. Started out as me just playing a few songs by myself in one of the classrooms, next thing I know I look up and the room is full. The other night I was playing around with some major scales and they started singing the ‘Do-Re-Mi’ sing from the ‘Sound of Music’, that was pretty interesting. Later.
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