Walking in Manila

If you were out for a stroll in the big city of Manila, here are a few things you might see or experience:
- A street child asking for money, or trying to sell a strand of fragrant sampaguita flowers
- Sidewalks that may or may not exist; if there is a sidewalk you might have to avoid posts, holes, large chunks of concrete, or steeply slanted driveways
- The icecream man (you will know him by the song he plays), who pedals his bike with an umbrella over the top and a little cooler attached
- Men walking the neighborhoods with a wooden yoke with buckets attached, carrying soy pudding (like tofu) or other food
- Tropical trees and flowers
- Car horns honking at intersections, since there are no stop signs or lights at most (on all but the major roads). The horn lets others know you are there. If you are driving, you don't have to stop and you don't expect anyone else to stop either.

Hard to believe, but we've been in the Philippines for almost three months now! We looked for over a month for an apartment and finally found one that is close to the language school. So we can walk to our Tagalog class each day. Our apartment also just 'happens' to be near Elijah's therapists as well. We really are thankful for such a great place to live!