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Day 34 Super Typhoon Yolanda – Getting Sick, Bike Ride to the Bus Station

December 11, 2013 – 9:29 am
An SUV is surrounded by debris after super typhoon Yolanda

Yesterday included another walk to the harbor to check on the navy ship. Marie, my main contact, was at the gangway shack this time and I was glad to see her. However, it didn’t make any difference. She wasn’t very friendly this time – probably tired of seeing me – and she had no information about when the ship might be leaving to go to …

Day Seventeen – Super Typhoon Yolanda

November 24, 2013 – 11:37 am
Two teenage girls help clear the rubble from their destroyed home

Yesterday was a day for public urination. No matter where I went, which street I went down, which corner I turned, I came across a man sending out a splendid stream of bright yellow liquid. That’s not uncommon, of course. There aren’t thousands of “Don’t Urinate Here” signs all over the Philippines for nothing. But yesterday was something special, like there was a urination festival …