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Allison won one game this week and lost two. She did very well and had 4 points in the first two and 6 in their close game today. She is playing great defense and is having a wonderful time. Everything is gearing up for next week's local playoff tournament and then the big trip to Singapore February 8-12.

January 27, 2006 AKA Freaky Friday

A group of fun, funny, fun loving ladies joined in a new monthly tradition dubbed Freaky Friday by our fearless founder and organizer, B. Laughter. This week found us visiting a favorite Mexican restaurant that has been changed to an Indian restaurant. We didn't let that bother us too much and enjoyed a great afternoon together.

Maricar, Maria, Betsy, B, Holly, Celia, Michelle, Diane, and Michelle

January 26, 2004 Happy Birthday Papa Ralph!

Thursdays for others visited the Habitat for Humanity community we support. Today we concentrated on beautification and took plants, soil, and seeds to help them plant. Esther came along and taught a few more women how to crochet. Several of the ladies kept the children occupied with books and a craft project. It felt great to get some planting done, everyone was so excited about starting new plants and making their homes look nice.

January 24, 2006

Today was the first AWCP Bazaar of the year. I worked and shopped there almost all day long. whew! Saw some pretty handmade quilts.

January 23, 2003

We are studying the Japanese American Period of Philippine History in my class. Today we had a wonderful speaker who shared many interesting facts with us about what went on during this time in history, especially the Philippine American War which doesn't take up much space in American history books, but in which it is estimated that up to 1,000,000 Filipino civilians died along with 4,000 American soldiers and 16,000 Filipino soldiers during the 3 year long war. After the lecture some of us went to Wasabi for lunch to enjoy some really good Japanese food.

January 21, 2006

Today we took a trip about 2 hours north of Manila to Angeles city where we shopped for handmade furniture. We found some very unique rataan and wicker pieces.

We also went to see the run down memorial to the soldiers who died in the famous death march of Bataan.

January 19, 2006

Today the women of the union church traveled to the province of Cavite to observe and serve in a world wide project called Food for the Hungry. A small church there is feeding 50 or so children every day and monitoring a core group's vital statistics to ensure nutritional needs are being met. The group met with us and sang songs for us. Lori read them the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" then each child received chocolate chip cookies along with their hot lunch.

On January 18, the Museum Volunteers of the Philippines took a tour of historic Pasig City. Our first stop was the Immaculate Conception Church which dates back to the 1500's. We explored the museum articles and beautiful sanctuary. I loved this cross depicting Mary's arms around Jesus. We also visited the Lopez Museum and the oldest home is Pasig city. Before heading home we had a great lunch then shopped at a new shopping center called Tiendisitas which is packed with local artifacts and handicrafts.