Trip to Romblon Romblon and Church!!!!

I headed to Romblon, Romblon with Line (pronounced Lena) who is from Norway and lives in Australia now, we travel well together. We took a smallish boat for the 45 minutes trip from Tablas Island to Romblon Island.

I discovered that I love Romblon, Romblon. It is a much bigger than San Agustin, things still occur after 7:00 in the evening. There is a little cafe run by a Filipino named Tess and her husband David who is from England but has lived in Romblon for at least 8 years already. They are a wonderful couple who made us American food (I had carbonera and French toast) and gave us advice about the surrounding area. Romblon is known for its marble, which I bought some of, and its beautiful beaches.

My favourite part of Romblon was this sort of patio area "down town" where people went to sit and chat after supper. It is the "night life" of Romblong. There are no places to party there but that outdoor area was wonderful. We would go sit there after supper and people would just look at us. Sometimes if they were brave they would say hi. Everywhere we walked people always look at us and sometimes they'll say "What is your name?" or "Where are you going?" Since I find it awkward to just have people look at me I always smile and say hi and they always smile back. It's kind of entertaining.

Line and I went to 2 different beaches and swam and snorkled, it was very beautiful but you can still see devestation from the typhoon yet. I meet people everywhere I go, Line was amazed but of course having an outgoing personality makes life fun for me. While in Romblon I made some friends with some guys and then I joined them playing basketball. Since girls don't play basketball here it was something that I had to do. We had quite a group watching us, I was amused.

The towns here often experience brown outs and Line and I discovered that we are now pros at dealing with no electricity. On our way back to our hotel we picked up some candles from a small shop (lit by candle light) We then promply set them up using hot wax on our marble floor in our room and on the sink in the bathroom. We were impressed with ourselves. lol. Since marble is so common here so many things are made of marble, benches, tables, decorations and floors. It is pretty cool.

The best thing for me was finding an Evangelical church in Romblon. YAY!!!! I was so excited. The people were very friendly of course but the best part was almost all of the worship was in English and I knew the songs! The pastor (who was a woman) also used a fair amount of English in the sermon so I could keep up and the Bible I used was Enligh too. It was so awesome praising God with those people. I may make a trip back there yet before I leave. I do know that there is another good church nearer my house so I may try that one, my students were singing United song in class today which they learned at their church, it was pretty sweet.

I'm having a great time. Can't wait to share pictures! I'm being smart and not giving out my cell phone number as a general rule. People ask for it all the time. It is a interesting culture here of texting. Everyone texts and actually talking on the phone doesn't occur too often. And since I am white people think they need my number, however it is rather annoying having people texting you good morning and good night and what are you doing, all the time. Therefore.... only to people I know and sometimes that is bad enough!!