We snorkeled, ate good food, played with crocodiles, met political officials, toured the town and nightlife, and most importantly, slept in air con.
I took the trip to the island, a quick one hour island hop on Cebu-Pacific airlines, with couple of my friends, Ginelle, Justin and Stephanie. We accompanied my DevCom 140 classmates who could afford the trip and my professor, Sir Ed. It was photo field trip and birthday adventure smashed into one exciting weekend.
I still am unable to process that I am fortunate enough to live there for two months, in less than 4 weeks! Much less film a documentary there! Unreal.
While we were there, we (Justin and I), were able to meet up with our internship coordinator, Bart. He brought us up to speed on our missions and we brainstormed over a delectable breakfast, our last morning there. Needless to say, we are even more stoked than before to be interning with 'Poor No More.'
One of many fantastic experiences of the group included dining with and meeting the Mayor of Puerta Princesa, the city we stayed in, and the same one I'll be living in. He gave off a sense of calm, control, confidence and cunning on first impression. He related stories of how he's 'made things happen' in Puerta Princesa. He told us how he has effectively dealt with corruption on a national level, and made it work on his own local level.
He exuded ideals of progressivism. I'm interested to see how the mayor operates on a daily basis, outside a first impressions environment. I hope he maintains the hype he made for himself at dinner.
I'm excited to share the few photographs I have here. There will be many more to come.
