Break from Manila

I always love breaks from Manila, but this one comes in the form of a 10 day community health financing class. We'll be traveling to Bacolod and Dumaguete with our teacher, a nun! I hope we're all on our best behavior. My mom used to tell me crazy stories about the nuns that taught her in school here so I hope I don't make this one angry. It's hard to leave the internship because I'm in the middle of a big project, but hopefully I'll be able to keep working on it while we're away. Even though my project is stressing me out, WHO is really making life easier here. They have an awesome gym that we can use for free, I eat 2 of 3 meals a day in their cafeteria (so cheap and pretty good), and they even arranged for someone to pick up my care package at customs! That was fabulous because I avoided 2 scary taxi rides to an unknown location, and I heard foreigners have to bribe the postal workers to get their packages. Thanks to my authorized WHO rep, I am now in possession of two tubs of rainbow and butter star cookies from Ukrops :) Merci ma belle Shelley! 

Off I go. Back on the 21st!