Sagada, March 12

Last Sunday, my mummy and I went for a ‘Pinay in Action’ run. It was 1.6 kilometres. My mum and I were tied together by an elastic band and my cousin Sari was there too. The boys couldn’t run because it was a girls only race. I got a stitch in the end but I ran all the way. We did it in ten minutes. There were four laps and after each lap, we got a yellow ribbon.

After the race, we got a ‘Pinay in Action’ mug and a pink rubber bracelet. We looked for my brothers and it turns out that they got free doughnuts and they were fresh and had just been made. It was so cool! We decided to get some free doughnuts ourselves. We also got to watch them being made. It started off as some dough, then it got shaped. When it came out, it got toasted and then it got flipped. After it got flipped, it went along the machine and into some icing. At the end, Sari got a squished doughnut.

When we went home, we had a refreshing swim at my cousin Sevi, Mica and Geo’s house. We got to eat pretzels, a sweet and some crisps. The pool was quite shallow.

We left for Banaue on Tuesday. Banaue is in the mountains and it is known for its rice terraces. Rice terraces are places where you grow rice on one side of a mountain. Some people say that this is the eighth wonder of the world. The rice terraces are about 2,000 years old. The view is very beautiful when you are up high. The journey from Manila to Banaue was eight hours. The road was very bumpy. In the mountains, there were lots of waterfalls. We even saw the source of one!

Today we left Banaue for Sagada. This time it took three and a half hours. We are staying in Rock Inn Hotel. The rooms are big. When we arrived, we left our stuff here and set off to see the sunset by a lake. Unfortunately, we could not find it. We saw two goats nibbling on a few shrubs.