Starting off the day with Apple flavored Oatmeal, a banana and a movie called Hall Pass. Heading out to the Dumaguete Market to buy some food. What do I see on my way out? A goat, of course.
I ask the goat if I can rape it and then take it’s milk. I have no luck trying to get close to the goat. I just wanted to play. Why do I get obsessed with animals?
After the goat adventure it’s off in a tricycle to the market. I land in the fruit market and decide to buy some apples. Apparently I want the “pretty” apples.
I realize I only have a 500 peso bill on me, and those aren’t accepted in small stores in the Philippines, so I head to Mercury Drugstore to get change. The line there is too long so I head back to the market to find the chicken vendor who usually has change.
I end up finding a bread shop to get change. I never found the chicken vendor. I buy a siopao. I leave the market and head to Robinson Mall. I head back home and CC makes a pit stop.
Talking to some people there looks soo frustrating. Did you ever snap and just grab someone and say, “english, do you speak it!”
:D ha ha!
I can see how people would snap, and I’m sure they do all the time, but it’s never happened to me. It’s sort of like a game to figure out which words work. Or sometimes you’re using the right word, but you’re not saying it in a way for them to understand. Like the word “video.” If I pronounce it the correct American way, some Filipinos won’t understand. I need to say “B-D-O.” That is one word off the top of my head that I have problems with.
ur in their country,,, cant expect the whole world to speak english
Wow, the market was intense that day- musta been a Saturday. I hate the way filipinos cook and eat fish. Even here in my city an older filipina named Betty had a store down my street called Philippine Express. She sold all kinds of stuff and had like a buffett and said she sold things online as well. I used to go and hang out there sometimes with a pinoy friend I met here named Gary. He lived in Manila and Cebu and drove jeep/trike/taxi. He won some kinda small lottery there and moved here in 2001. But I never got used to them just gutting the fish and leaving everything on it and cooking it that way. I mean everything like head, eyes, scales, fins, gills, tail- just grossed me out. I am americano and have to fillet my fish and just fry, bake or grill the fillets. They always had these fish like swimming around in some brown sauce they cooked them in and he could never get me to try it and I never will.
I didn’t know fish had bones until I went to the Philippines.
Sorry I forgot what the vid was about .I started watch the Womens Olympic Vollyball. It make my mouth water.Why do the Aus women wearing their Bra on the outside of their tee shirt ? B&G out
Down under B&G….downunder :-)
Goat: no means no!
filipinos have lots of words that come from spanish,, it makes it easier to learn when u know spanish..i would make a list but it be way to long
When I get back to the Peenes I will be busting it more…don’t fret, Ameripino. I’ve been practicing!
When telling time, they always use the Spanish numbers. And I guess for prices sometimes. Usually it’s English. It just depends what region you’re in.