Peace Corps Philippines batch 264

How is it going over in the states? everything is good here. I'm back in Bayombong/Solano hanging out. We have been very busy facilitation hub meetings and meetings for the day camp tomorrow. I just finished the lesson plan and will have the computer class and day camp on Friday the 27th. I have made some good quality friends here and I am very happy about that. two very good friends are actually filipinos jef and dave. jef just went back to Manilla to study for his accountancy board exam in October and when he passes god willing I will go to his party when I get back from the states. I am doing well babe. I usually have one bad day for every 5 good days so the odds are in my favor. i love myhost familiy here it's going to be hard to leave them come June, but I'll be visiting often and my host brother is coming to stay with me in december so that will be great. I forgot my camera so I'll have to post pictures after the day camp and brgy. basketball game. It's the volunteers vs. the community team so that will be fun. I am definitely going to give Jarret a run for his money when I get back to the states. If I want to play sports here the only option is basketball and I am getting very good. The rain has started to come. It's usually sunny hangaang alas kuatro pagkatapos nito it starts raining until alas ocho o alas nuebe. We still get alot of sun and I am acclimated to the weather already. When I visited Baguio a couple weeks I got chills. Baguio is the coolest place in the Philippines and when I went it was a frigid 70 degrees farenhiet. Brrrrrrrrrrrr! seriously brrrrrr. So needless to say I am going to freeze my butt off when I come back in October. How is everyone doing back home. Is rocky still biting people, is Jason and Roberta busy planning the wedding and house situation, how is PaPa tell them hi for me. I've heard that everyone are becoming dart professionals high ton huh. not too shabby. All my filipino basketball buddies are looking forward to seeing Jarret come and play basketball seeing as how they get a kick out of when I dunk they'll love to see the McGill brothers hit the court. Oh, and Jason Tarlac city has a beatiful golf course designed by a world renowned golf course architect. mabuti mabuti oo? Anyways I would like to receive e-mails from everyone, it really helps me over here, I am having a great time but it still gets lonely, there's no getting around that aspect of travelling abroad. It's crazy to see all the families over here who are seperated for years at a time due to overseas workers. The number of filipinos working abroad is huge, and if you came here you would see why. The people are great and very eduated but they are very underpaid, overworked and underappreciated. So many of them choose to leave from a very young age. It's bad for the Philippines but it also keeps country afloat. I think the amount of money coming from overseas workers is in the billions and billions of dollars per year. It's basically 30 to 40 percent of the philippine economy. The Government also pays 1/3 of their annual income to their huge foreign debt to other countries. When I look at all the filipinos who leave their families i feel less alone because I know there are so many families and young people in my same position. I think I have babbled on long enough and I don't really feel like spell checking so try to comprehend my sentences. ingat. Kita tayo mammaya.