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My First Year Living In The Philippines

Thursday, February 12th, 2009 at 2:26 pm

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Reflections and Evolution in Opinion

I’ve been in the Philippines for a few days more than a year. I’ve learned a lot but still have much to learn. It is pretty amazing how differently people from different parts of the world think. Thinking of all the variations in humans from around the world, makes me a little surprised some haven’t tried to s ay we are different species. Maybe the racist have, I’ve heard them speak of “your own kind.” However, we are all the same species just very varied in our customs.

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Wow Typhoon Quinta Blows Into Cebu

Saturday, November 8th, 2008 at 12:05 am

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Typhoon Hits Cebu Without Warning

Yesterday morning I woke up to a storm and the lights going out. I thought, this looks like a typhoon coming in. I’ve only seen one but the weather just looked different enough that it was not your normal monsoon. Since it has been a drier monsoon season than normal, I reasoned that this is what we should have been getting all along.

To be safe, I asked Jessie to send one of the helpers out to get a newspaper. I thought if there was a storm coming in, we needed to know and could get the information from the paper. While she was out, banana bushes begun to topple and even tress where coming down. The wind was not equal to that of Typhoon Frank but Frank was a major storm. Quinta was likely a category one, though I don’t know.

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Typhoon Nuri Kills 5 in Northern Philippines

Thursday, August 21st, 2008 at 12:24 pm

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Another killer storm unleashes fury on the Philippines!

Five people were killed as Typhoon Nuri slammed into the northern Philippines Wednesday, triggering heavy rain and warnings of possible storm surges, officials said.

Packing maximum sustained winds of 140 kilometres (86 miles) an hour at the centre and gusts of up to 170 kilometres per hour, at 4:00 pm (0800 GMT) Nuri was 90 kilometres northwest of the northern province of Cagayan, moving northwest at 15 kilometres per hour.

The storms here appear to be milder than what we get in the US. Some of the homes that I’ve seen look like the big bad wolf could blow them away. But they

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Typhoon Nuri

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 6:49 pm

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Thought I’d let folks know that Typhoon Nuri is having no effect on the Island of Cebu. I haven’t been out yet today but yesterday it was unusually calm at the bay. I’ll be going down to the seaside cafe area tonight. But there has been no lighting at all and no rain. The skies have been partly cloudy, lots of clouds but a lot of sun shine too.

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