After the lake, we travelled here to the scouting monument. Interestingly, the Filipino scout oath and law are very similar to the oath and law in scouting in America. The only difference is the addition of the line, “the Republic of the Philippines.”
Our final stop was in front of the National Arts Center of the Philippines. Sadly, the center was closed for Covid reasons, but we were still able to take this photo.
Above are some cool photos I took at IRRI. The environment was always beautiful in the Philippines, and the mountain in the distance was the one we climbed to see the mud springs from one of my earlier blog posts. Also, there were tons of frogs and lizards found across the campus. Outside of campus, stray dogs and cats were commonplace.
One weekend we went to the nearby mall at Calamba. As you can see above, this mall was much more active than many malls in America. There was lots of stuff to do here, including an entire movie theatre on the third flood. On this day, we went to a restaurant that sold American food called Zark’s burgers. They had the best burgers I tried in the Philippines, but it was only okay by American standards.
Above is a photo from our trip to the beach. Here Aidan and I are heading out on a boat to where we would go snorkeling.
Finally, above are some photos related to the restaurants and food I ate at the Philippines. The pizza was from Shakey’s which we shared among our group of Wesleyan students. The Phuong Restaurant was a Vietnamese place we went to. The final photo shows a restaurant that we tried to get into while a group of students from India and America drove back from the beach.