May 7, 2012

i've used up all of my silly scriptures. sadface.

when i return here in the Philippines to visit, i plan on taking pictures of some of the architecture. not of the squatter zones but of the subdivisions where people actually have houses. the house that they build have much more freedom than in america, where people are limited to what the home owners association decide. in america the houses look way too uniform and it gets kinda ugly. but because there are no real laws here (there are laws but no one cares, not even the police) and the building materials that they use are really cheap (cinder block and plaster) anyone can build anything the way they want. it gives me a lot of inspiration for a house.

i'll also look for tagolog/illongo song when i get home because there are a few good songs that i hear when walking by peoples radios sometimes.

one drink that i like is gulaman. it's not fantastic but it's interesting. it's hard to explain what it is, some sort of chinese stuff i think.

this week, I've been getting fed up with the mission which makes up ridiculous rules that make no sense and are impossible to follow. I've also gotten fed up with the ward, again. the church in the Philippines is like a sinking ship with no rudder and no one knows how to work the engine and only 3% of the people are actually rowing and everyone who is rowing is rowing in the wrong direction against each other. i'll be a happy man when my mission is over and i don't have to deal with all these problems.

another inconvenience, is that they don't tell us when or how we can call home for mothers day until it's too late to tell people, for instance right now. i don't know when i can home. if it so happens that i can call next week on monday, well that's all good and dandy, but i can't tell my family to get together or anything on that day because right now i don't know when it'll be. and there won't be another day for me to send a message to inform anyone to get together. what good does it do to call if you call home and the person who you call is driving on the freeway by themselves to an appointment. their needs to be planning ahead of time, but the leaders in the mission don't realize that or understand what actual planning is. i'm surrounded by idiots.

i still miss my # 8 planner. i hope i find it...