Back From Vacation

I came back from the Philippines, and it was a great experience except that I got sick on the last day of the trip. I had an eight hour layover in Korea, and then the flight back to LAX was more than nine hours long, and that was while I was sick. That wasn’t so great.

There is a lot of compare and contrast going on. The way that I viewed relationships was with such a “Western” mentality, and there was a point in my trip where it clashed with the way things were done in the Philippines. Values are a lot different in the Philippines, as I found things to be much simpler there.

Maybe it’s the artistic side of me, but where some would see poor, I saw art. I wanted to just take pictures of everything from the roads, to the houses, to the fields. Maybe the lack of uniformity appealed to my creative side or something.