Friday, May 1, 2009

Jetski?

Boracay Island is pretty sweet. The beach is awesome, the shops are cool and the water is warm. You probably won't help but notice that while walking down the beach people will come up to you and offer you the chance to ride a jetski, or some other form of water/land entertainment that has an engine.
It wouldn't be that big of a deal, except it appears the entire island is employed by the jetski company. I honestly get offered jetski riding 10x each way when walking up the beach. To be truthful I get offered jetski, atv, island hopping etc.
But they don't do it like 3 in a row, it kind of sounds like they're falling off a cliff, for example. "jetski, atv, island....hopp........ing?
Usually followed by "best price". or "discount".
And like I said, EVERYONE appears to be employed by this company.
I walked into a normal convenience store looking for a nice plump pack of oreos to mow down on. The lady said she didn't have any....then she asked if I wanted to ride a jetski. Like, not the worst thing in the world, I know, but how does this company own the whole friggen island.

Anyways, we get treated like gold by the pastor who's housing us. We decided to "bless them" by paying for them to cook us dinner.
Turns out the pastor is an amazing cook, and one of the best dinners of my entire life took place...twice. We immediately dedicated 3 dinners a week to them cause it literally is just unbelievable. Not to mention they always serve fresh mangos, bananas, pineapples and watermelon.
I know it sounds super great but there is some horrible things to deal with...like the instant coffee they gave us has sugar in the packet....sigh...life can be tough.

Cheers.
-jon.

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