Fourth Week
It’s a tiring week filled with preparations for the seminar and finally wrapping it up yesterday. We thought no one would come but lo and behold were more than 30 people who were interested enough to listen to what we had to say… and that was despite the intermittent rains.
It’s heartwarming how people in the rural towns are so helpful even if we are not exactly one of them. Each lent a helping hand to us poor medical clerks in any way that they can: men helping with the chairs, carrying them themselves so that us girls don’t have to do it ourselves, while the women helped out in distributing the food we prepared plus tidying up the place after. The “bayanihan” they exhibited is very envious. Such display of cooperativeness is rarely seen in the city… at least among complete strangers. No wonder a lot of foreigners who visit rural areas fall in love with the people. 
After a hard day’s work, we chilled out and enjoyed a good movie in our “private theater” right here inside room. We rented lcd monitor yesterday and we figured it would be such a waste not to make use of it after the seminar. It cost us 2K anyway!!! Anyway, I wish had one of these fascinating gadgets at home. I wonder if dad’s willing to shell out for one. 