I have two amazing roommates and we are presently house-sitting for a missionary family while they are on furlough. Come January, we will move to another missionary home as the people whose home we are staying in return. Currently, we live about half a mile down the hill from Faith Academy and are very blessed with our home. We have an amazing porch that looks down into a jungle of greenery with a river passing through it. We sure spend an awful lot of time sitting and taking in our view.
As you follow the road around a corner it goes over a bridge. We always see squatters filling up buckets to carry home. The people in the area are constantly swimming in the river and the ladies wash their clothes there. It is definitely a "happening" place. I love to pause while passing the bridge to see what is happening along the river banks. Many squatter homes are found further down from the road.
A road full of pot holes leads up to Faith Academy. The school is on a beautiful campus; it has been very blessed by the Lord by donors who have seen the vision of Faith Academy and have invested in it. Friendly guards welcome us to school each morning with enthusiastic waves.
Just down the hill from Faith Academy is a squatter village (still about half a mile from my home). It is buzzing with life with people chatting on the road, walking to and from, children chasing dogs, and others just sitting around chatting. They have a basketball court there and each day there is a group of men who are faithful in playing a basketball game between 4-6.
Right next door to this squatter community, is an area where people raise roosters for cock fights. These are quite common in the Philippines. We used to hear these roosters EVERY morning but as time has gone on, we hardly notice them anymore.
The other day I was on a run and was running past the little community when a 7 year old, who was on her way to get safe drinkable water from Faith Academy, ran up to me saying "Ate Ate" (This is a respectful way to address an older female), and gave me a huge hug. This little one is part of the Sunday ministry to squatter kids that I get to be a part of. It was so neat to have my worlds meet!
There are also many nice homes in my community as we are near a golf course. These homes are more western styled homes and vary in size. It can seem strange that the "haves" live so close to the "have nots" (Although there was a lot of this in South Africa too).
There is so much more to say but I think I will leave it at that for now! :) I hope you enjoyed a little larger glimpse in to my life.
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| The view from our porch |
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| The river around the corner |
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| Squatter community with a basketball court. (I was too embarrassed to go back and take another picture so this one is blurry!) |
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| Faith Academy |
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| The guards at the Faith Academy gate |
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