Koi and Quarantine

Hello, and welcome to my second blog post! These next couple of posts are going to be rapid fire, as I ended up missing out on June. Only three weeks are left, and I do have a little bit of catching up to do. A lot of things have been going wrong, unfortunately, so I hadn’t actually started working until the June 21st, on Tuesday, so it felt kind of odd doing this before then. And then, well, I hadn’t done it yet so why do it then? That said, this blog is not focusing nearly as much on work, but it’s the idea of getting yourself up to do it, I guess. But it’s posted now, so that’s a good first step!

The Philippines is very beautiful and very warm, a very lovely place for humans and bugs alike to live. Yeah, I don’t really like the bugs, especially when I found them in my cereal. A tip to any other travelers, check your cleanliness habits with food and dishes, it could save you a week’s worth of indigestion. Otherwise, the food here is both rather cheap and rather tasty. On the first day we were here, the interns were brought to an amazing restaurant, look—

There are Koi fish, and all the rooms are on floating houses. It is so cute. There were even house lizards everywhere, though I didn’t know they were house lizards then. I’ve been finding them around my dorm, too, apparently they just hang out in houses and eat bugs. I could use some bug eaters, for sure. And they are so cute! Sadly, my pictures of them are kind of blurry, so I didn’t include them.

I have already been to the rice planting event which was super fun and interesting, but I do not yet have access to the photos so you will be able to read about that before I get back! Who knows, it depends on when I get the photos. Don’t worry, I already recorded my experience, so I will not have forgotten all of it. That said, I have a terrible memory, so there will still be some things left out. It should be fine.

So, I didn’t work for two weeks. What was I doing? Well, unfortunately, the answer is: quarantine. Not much happening. I ended up reading over a million words worth of fiction, maybe two million at this point (this is not an exaggeration. I read that much). Maybe I could be out exploring, but I also get nervous because, for the first week, it was quarantine, and for the second, I wanted to be working. In the meantime, I was able to visit the supermarket and order food, so it wasn’t all bad.

I look forward to recording more of my experience in the time to come! Thanks for coming to read my blog~

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