Tali Beach, March 7

The past three days have been very exciting. I got to go to my cousin Sari’s school. The school was called St. Paul’s College. We had to wake up very early to go to school. We had to be there at 7 o’clock. But we finished early at 2:30. Everyone gave me a present – I got clay, notepads and pencils. I learned lots more Tagalog and the Maths was really fun. Sometimes at the bottom of the sheets it said ‘Good luck, girls!’ We had to do quizzes (they called the quizzes seatwork). I recited a poem called ‘Feelings’ to the class. I participated a lot in class. The school was an all-girls school. Unfortunately I didn’t bring my school shoes so I had to wear my trainers. I was in the ‘Best Girl’ list. This means that I was the best girl in all the class for my behaviour and schoolwork.

The school was different from my school because there was a canteen which had booths selling a variety of food. We also had to wear an ID which is a card with money in. Instead of learning French, we learned Tagalog. We had to pray a lot in school. We prayed in the morning and when each teacher came in. We also had to sing the national anthem at the start of the day.
I played with Bea, Sari and Sunny Kim. I talked a lot with them and I was in Sunny Kim’s group.

It was a great experience and I had so much fun. I would like to do it again.

Today we are back in Tali Beach. We have been playing in the pool a lot. We played golf in a mini course. I played very well today. Tito Phil and Tita Tech took us to lunch at Punta Fuego. I ate a ‘Hotdiggity’.