sweets and snacks(in Philippines)

In the Philippines, I can get a lot of sweets, snacks, and instant noodles for reasonable prices. They come in handy, because I skip meals at my dormitory.

The leftmost photos are not sweets. It is a pack of powdered fruit juice. It is prepared by adding 5 parts of water to 1 part of the powdered fruit juice. But the first time I’ve tried it. I did not read the instructions and I end up drinking something too sweet. .I thought that it was suppose to look viscous and pulpy when you pour it to your glass. I felt stupid doing that. But I think that made my sore throat better. Anyways, I like the supermarket in the Philippines. They even recognized my nationality.

Healot (in Philippines)

Hilot means body massage in the Visayan language in the Philippines. I found many good spas in Cebu, Philippines. The offer top of the line services at reasonable prices and fees. I think their prices are a tenth of that of Japanese Spas. Fortunately for me, a spa is located near my dorm. So I go there every other day. I tried every service offered by the spa. But I hear that foreigners go to this spa are not quite common. And I noticed that Philippine students come at the spa a couple of times. I also tried other spas in Cebu, but I found my spa near my dorm to be better than all of them.

The girl shown here is a good therapist. As long as she’s in the spa, I can virtually try any service they offer. However, It looks like the staff do not know how to operate a machine used for facial massage. Anyway, that spa in Cebu was the best. It made me comfortable all the time.

Jeepney (in Philippines)

It is the most common transportation means in Philippines. But I always use taxi because it was a little bit scary getting on the Jeepney when I was alone. I could try it when I was with Philipino. There is no a/c but I really enjoyed with the warm wind and the view on the street from the window. And I felt heartwarming because the passenger seating far from the driver can hand to the their neighbor the pay and then other passengers pass the pay to the their neighbor so that the driver receive it.

I felt that I was in Philippines the most when I was getting on Jeepney...

The meals of the dorm (in Philippines)

The pic is the dinner of one-day. After all, I never could meet good meals there. It seems that they cooked for Koreans because there are many Korean students in that dormitory. But even Korean are saying the tastes is terrible.

I was wondering why they could cook such as terrible meals...I thought they should borrow me their kitchen. But I could not complain about it when I the staff of canteen smile at me.hahaha...

catch a cold (in Philippines)

I caught a bad cold. I went to Manila while I was in Cebu and my flight return to Cebu was delayed so I had to wait long time at the airport. I was lightly dressed so I felt I caught a cold then. The night I went back from Manila I had high fever. Although I didn't know exact temperature because I didn't have clinical thermometer then. I took some medicine from Japan. But it didn't work well. After all I absented from school for two days. No matter how I lied quietly in bed I couldn't get over. I decided to call a doctor with using travel insurance. When I contacted with them they arranged immediately. They picked me up at the dorm but they judged that it was not good for me to bring to the hospital as a outpatient they saw my face.So the doctor came to my room and examined. I was given the injection, some medicine and even thermometer. It was difficult for me to swallow each medicine because its drops are quite large compare to Japan. I could get over very quickly after that. I should have contacted earier...

Anyway the system of travel insurance is useful and marvelous!!

I had been in Philippines for a month

I visited to Cebu for studying English and stayed there for a moth(Feb.8th-Mar.8th) Why Philippines?...they asked me, though. It's very reasonable compare to other countries; UK,USA and so on. In addition I wanted to escape from cold winter in Japan.
I stayed the dormitory next to language school. I spent there almost the time in Philippines.
There were many different things from that I had expected.
I think I should write down all of them before I forget...

economy slump in Japan

I went to the unemployment office to make procedure of unemployment benefits. I was recognized again that there are many jobless people at the moment. I have never been experienced such as big recession. I really worry about the future of Japan. Many Brazilian are in my prefecture and they are also looking for their job. But I think it is difficult for them because there are no enough job even Japanese here...
I heard from the news that one Japanese famous cardboard company decided to hire their temporary staff as their regular staff in coming spring. The company says that temporary staff are very important manpower for their business that's why they took place that employment. I want other companies to follow this cardboard company example. But I'm sure it is impossible for them because almost every company around here is suffering from their recession.