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Meet Carlo

April 4, 2013 – 12:50 pm
Meet Carlo

Meet Carlo. He is one of the younger residents of the village of Salvacion – a small agricultural village on the slopes of the Mayon Volcano in the Bicol Region of the Philippines. Carlo had just recently graduated from college in Manila. He studied computers. I asked him what he was doing now. Was he on vacation? And he replied that he was looking for …

002 – Camiguin and Jasmin by the Sea

April 1, 2011 – 1:55 pm
Approaching Cloud-Covered Camiguin

Friday April 1, 2011 10:30 a.m.
Jasmin by the Sea
Camiguin, Philippines
It is the next morning now. Technically it is my second morning in the Philippines, but it is the first morning that I’ve woken up here. It is raining fairly hard and, in fact, has been raining all night. It started shortly after I went to bed and then never stopped. I guess the weather forecasts …