Saturday evening was the American Women's Club of the Philippines annual Hoe Down. It was a great party, with a country rock band playing all of our favorites from the 70s-80s. I was feeling really nostalgic as memories from my days at KSU flooded in. Everyone dressed in western wear and danced all night long. This fundraiser is paying for building classrooms and updating a school which is out in the provinces, near the South China Sea. They had pictures of the school and the happy children in their much improved school.
Saturday morning, Oct 15 found us up early and at the Bodega (Warehouse) Sale at the Noritake factory in Marakina.Wow! Stacks and stacks of beautiful china. These pieces have some very small imperfections, most of which you can't even see. They cost about 1/3 of the wholesale price which makes them less than 1/6 of the retail price if you were buying an entire set. We spent 3 hours going through and picking out the very best pieces. Katie got some too!
Ardmore Platinum
Holly and Berries
On Friday, Oct. 14, Michelle, Laurie and I set out on a shopping adventure to the least desirable parts of Manila. Binondo, Divisoria, and Quiapo. These pictures were taken on the main street of Divisoria. We had been there to a shopping centerbefore, but we had never seen the conditions in this street before. Every time that I think I have seen the worst there is to see, I come upon something worse. The people have set up camp in the center of the street where there used to be railroad tracks. They live here where the garbage is dumped and recycled by anyone who wants to dig in it. The stench is unbelievable and indescribable.
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