MABUHAY PHILIPPINES

                                                                 
It was 6 pm when we arrived at Naia airport we were worried about the one that’s gonna picked us up since our flight got delayed so he probably already waited for hours, we’re coming at our arrival gate and there he is a friendly guy with blue shirt holding banner with our names on it. 



Picture of us with Mr. Vincent at Naia Airport
                                          

His name is Mr. Vincent, We decided to take some pictures for our arrival and documentation people looked at us and read our banner and one of them approached us “Are you guys from Indonesia?” we basically surprised since he’s the first Indonesian we met here, and it turns out that he’s working in Indonesian embassy, so we got Indonesia embassy contact just incase we’re going to visit embassy later. Then, we ‘re going to have our dinner in airport we walked around that food places like 3 times since there’s only one place that have halal certified then we ate there. While we’re eating we’re talking about our program here, and we found out that Mr. Vincent teaches Math in Junior High School of Santo Tomas, and he’s going to be the cooperating teacher of another participant from Thailand.


Dinner with Mr. Vincent

We finished our dinner around 9pm and then we headed up to our dorm, While on the bus Mr. Vincent said we supposed to go for a mini tour around Manila but since our flight got delayed and its already late so we cant make it, it was kind of traffic, and the weather is rainy ever since we arrrived at airport, it took around 50 minutes or more for us to  get to our dormitory.
We welcomed by a guy that helped us bring our thing, because ours is in the 4th floor. " Mabuhay our temporary home, and healthy life" 



On the van heading to the drom

Sir that helped us

 

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