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Meet Aljon in Legazpi, Philippines

April 8, 2013 – 4:13 pm
Meet Aljon - Scholarship Worker

Meet Aljon. Aljon works at the Mayon Backpackers Hostel in Legazpi. He works the front desk and cleans the kitchen and rooms and gets the rooms ready for the next guests. Aljon puts in such long hours that I thought he never went home. Then I learned that the hostel IS his home. The owner of the hostel is paying for Aljon’s university education and …

From Taipei to the Philippines

March 31, 2013 – 11:24 am
Putting the bike together

Leaving Taipei with my bike to Philippines
Sunday March 31, 2013
4:20 a.m.
I’m not sure that I have any energy to write. I’m in the Philippines. Well, in the airport in Manila anyway. Though it’s already super clear that I am in the Philippines. Everyone smiles and everyone seems happy and everyone is friendly. There are English songs from the fifties playing over the speakers and every …