Thursday, 11-8: So Anski, Megha, Charles, Aubrey and I took a taxi to the airport around 10 ish Thursday night to catch our flight to Cebu, a city in the Philippines (since we didn't really want to go to Manila). We had nowhere to stay and no plans, so we got on the flight and of course immediately began replacing the word "what" with "penis" and learning some new methods of flirting from Anski (another film should follow soonly). It was actually funny because another group of HKUers got the exact same flights to Cebu both there and back. Unfortunately, Megha, who was sick before we came, got much worse and was sick the whole plane ride. We arrived in Cebu at around 3:30 am. The customs form had big red letters that said "DEATH TO DRUG TRAFFICKERS" and of course Anski said, hey guys, let's film a movie where we pretend we have drugs! at customs. NO Anski. It was a bit sketch at the airport at 3 am but we just wanted to find a cheap nice hostel, and after a while we did and went to bed.
Friday, 11-9: The next day we woke around 10, since we had gone to bed at like 4 the previous night. Megha was very very ill so Charles had to take her to the hospital. Meantime, Aubrey, Anski and I headed out to explore the city and figure out what to do with our trip. We went to a mall near our hostel and did some research at an internet cafe, and we decided that the best place to go would be the island of Bohol, about an hour and a half away from Cebu City by ferry and with white sand beaches and small islands nearby. We ate at a Middle Eastern restaurant and then decided to explore the city a bit. It's supposedly somewhat touristy, but non-locals were few and far between so it felt pretty local. Everyone speaks English, more than in Hong Kong and better, and most people are very friendly, although people try to rip you off sometimes as anywhere in which you stand out as a tourist. It's a colorful city, dirty, with lots of roosters running around and tons of motorbikes and colorful pick-ups that have seats to be taxis. We ended up at another mall that was quite cheap, and of course at the food court got a fruit smoothie. The smoothies in the Philippines are cheap and of course delicious with fresh fruit. I also decided to try a weird food, hot dog in a waffle, called "American Hot Dog Waffle" haha. It was weird. but not too bad. The t-shirts in the mall had some amusing Engrish, like Anski's new shirt: "be bear, my love" with a teddy bear. After that we headed to the pier to check out the ferry prices for our trip. We ended up buying tickets to Tagbilaran (a city which sounds like it is from Lord of the Rings when Anski says it in her Finnish accent) which is the city on Bohol island. We grabbed some sodas from a little shop by the water. It was really awesome, just this cool little place filled with wooden antiques, many Jesii and religious type things, as well as cats and a chicken in a cage. We sat and overlooked the ocean as the sun came down. That is the life, let me tell you. We headed back to the hostel to meet up Megha and Charles. The hospital luckily was quite decent, however Megha was still quite sick and needed a lot of rest. The rest of us headed to dinner at a little food court by our hostel. We had our first real Filipino food, which is sort of hard to explain what it is, but it's quite good. It was a buffet for pretty cheap, meat in sort of fruity sauce, seafood of course, fried food. After that we went to a bookstore, which had some really funny romance novels. It was crazy because they were half in Filipino and half English, like it would switch back and forth and there would just be random English phrases. We then grabbed dessert at an ice cream place-of course we could not get normal flavors. Aubrey got a purple yam, and I got rose petals-it was good, it tasted like perfume smells. We then headed to the internet cafe to book our hostel, because we had people meeting us we had to book it ahead. The only one on hostelworld was this place which had huts you could stay in, it seemed cool enough so we booked it. After that we headed off to bed since Aubrey, Anski and I were heading off on the Morning ferry.
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