The kitchen staff

Today we finished distributing the rest of the tickets around the village and you'd be amazed just how many children there are per household! Once we finished we came back up to the resort and before we knew it, there were people coming up and asking for tickets 'as they were at the market'.

L-R Anna, Chris, Jarret and Mary-Jane

Word soon spreads around this place and unfortunately you cannot provide for everyone, but we still had around 100 more tickets requested for! It's so hard to say no to them though

written by  chrischarly on February 23, 2011 from Santa Ana, Philippines
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Playing basket ball

Locals playing basketball outside the resort

Kids playing basket ball...

Today we finished off making the last few prperations for 'The Gay Night' tomorrow evening and the clothes distribution on Sunday

written by  chrischarly on February 25, 2011 from Santa Ana, Philippines
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Carla's first glamerous outfit- made out of a curtain!

We were secretly looking forward to it as we would get to see loads of the locals all dressed up and as the tickets were all given out it should have been a fantastic evening!

Carla and I

My job was to sell tequila to all the guests, although customeres only ever drink beer, so thought this would be quite a challenge!

Chris and Carla- perfect couple!

However, Carla, one of the members of staff who helped organised was the first and unfortunately the last person to turn up though!

Carlos and GeeGee admiring Carla's back!

So this was in fact very disappointing :( Somehow though, I still managed to see 45 shots to other customers here! But poor Carla was broken hearted and went to bed early after getting dressed up not just one but twice! :((

written by  chrischarly on February 26, 2011 from Santa Ana, Philippines
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Cold Max

Puppy-dog eyes

But then again, this was giving away free clothes to the locals and for a good cause.

By 8:15 we were all se up and ready and although the first group wasn't due until 9am and the second until 10am, there was already a massive queue!

Before opening

Queue of people waiting to get in and pick clothes

Out of 380 items of clothing and more donated later by some of the staff, not one piece of clothing even unmatched socks were left by 11am...

A cute boy with a bag almost as big as him stuffed full of clothes!

Clothes day

Clothes day

Busy, busy, BUSY!

Waiting to get in

It was crazily busy, but a great success! It was a just a shame we couldn't have provided to everyone, but at least everyone who had tickets were provided with at least one item of clothing.

written by  chrischarly on February 27, 2011 from Santa Ana, Philippines
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The court

This evening Trev took us to see a Jai Alai game.

The score board

At the Jai alai

This game is shown all over The Philippines on television and online for people to bet on.

Playing jai alai

It was actually quite an interesting game although the commentator obviously didn't agree

The commentator has obviously lost interest!

It doesn't usually have spectors, so we virtually had the place to ourselves!

The only spectators

Very exciting being on T.V to millions of viewers!

written by  chrischarly on February 28, 2011 from Santa Ana, Philippines
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Having a swim

Locals all swimming in their clothes

Happy little boy

Locals playing in the sea

We had a good day although it wasn't as busy as we expected just doing general tasks.

written by  chrischarly on March 1, 2011 from Santa Ana, Philippines
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Carlo and GeeGee

Trev and Jo

Yummy food

However, the zoo they kept outside wasn't very nice to look at, I swear the Chinese eat anything!

written by  chrischarly on March 3, 2011 from Santa Ana, Philippines
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Jo and Max

Jo playing with Max

Oh and we forgot to say in a previous blog entry... We saw dolphins the other day whilst sitting in the bar looking out to see; they were really close it was amazing!

written by  chrischarly on March 4, 2011 from Santa Ana, Philippines
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