Lesson 2

Don't play with the sea urchins. On Saturday, we traveled to an island near Davao called the Sunken Island where one of the Rotary members has a beach house. Here a beach house is just an open structure with a kitchen, a place for escaping the sun. No one here goes out in the sun on purpose, and they all think were funny because we like to tan. While there, Jessica swam into a sea urchin and was stung. All of the locals urged her to try the indigenous anecdote: urine. She did not. Instead, one of our new friends, Rebel, had her bathe her foot in vinegar. Oh, the adventures we have had.