My godmother had graciously offered her home in the province to stay while we got organized with permanent living arrangements. January 24th was my first morning to wake up in the Philippines, where I slept in a room with open windows and without air conditioning. It was 4:30 AM and the early activity bustle of roosters crowing, someone sweeping the street with a hard bristle broom, the tricycletas beeping to attract riders, the shouts of street vendors, and the smell of burning leaves was a difficult thing to stay asleep to - but I soak in the sounds and scents of a place I now call my second home.
We asked for a simple breakfast of fresh fruit and when we got downstairs the table was set with mangoes, finger bananas, pan de sal, farm fresh eggs, beef tapa, and baked camote from the garden. You'll be seeing lots of food pictures in this blog because Filipinos eat six meals a day: breakfast, mid-morning snack, lunch, merienda (afternoon snack,) dinner, then evening snack.
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| Fresh bananas and mangoes, the sweetest flavor of both only experienced here. |
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