Friday, January 21, 2011

You won't be late....you're in the Philippines

I went to go renew my tourist visa today in the immigration office.  I got there right when it opened and assumed it wouldn't take more than an hour.  Wrong.  Very wrong.  I ended up spending 2 and a half hours  sitting there waiting.  So many employees were just sitting around and it was so frustrating.  I texted some of the girls back home about how it was taking so long and they reminded me, you're on Filipino time now, everything is going to take a while.

Things move slowly here and people are always running late.  They say the more important something is, the later you should arrive.  It hasn't been too much of a struggle until today.  Good thing I was sitting next to an italian woman in the same situation and we pretty much ended up sharing life stories by the end of the two hours.  i think my next trip will be to Italy.

On a side note, I need to stop spending money!  It is so easy to spend money because everything is so cheap!

On another side note, Holly and I were bored this evening and found a documentary this family made about their unassisted home birth of twins.  It was a bit much for both of us and now I am in the really weird mood.

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