Things That Break My Heart.

I'm sitting in my house, listening outside. There are no sounds of jeepneys honking, dogs barking, nothing. Dead Silence. I look out side and it's just a bunch of houses, no lush green forest, or put-puts driving by. There are no missionaries walking around. It's quiet. It's a weird feeling. 

Everything looks strange.

I have NO idea how to use my cellphone. 

My house looks different. 

The streets looks bigger. 

The buildings are huge. 

There are huge trucks. 

The people are different.

 Everything is different.

I'm different. 

I have missed Utah tho. I've missed my friends, and my parents. but there's no place like the Philippines. hmmm... I imagine this is what RMs feel like. haha It's only been half a day and I'm already missing the Philippines so much. T^T

Now I have to start being all grown up and stuff. LAME.

But I conquered 4 airports in 24 hours. that sounds pretty grown up to me.

MANILA AIRPORT WAS A NIGHTMARE.

So we almost missed our plane to America. hehe

but here's the story... 

So we land in Manila from Tacloban and our luggage is already checked in, except we aren't. So i ask the guard where I am supposed to go, and he sent me to the back of this huge. It's 2:30 pm, and our plane leaves at 4.  so we get to the front of the line, and it's about 2:50, the guard there tells us we have to go to the ticketing office, because we rebooked out flight. so we run to the ticketing office, and it takes until 3:30.

 Me = freaking out. We were supposed to check in at 2:00 pm. So then we run to the Check-in booth, and I realize, we probably need more money, but this lady in front of us is taking like nine years cuz she had like a billion bags.

so after check in we run to the bank, which will only give me P100.00, which is like 2 dollars.

so after that we run to pay the terminal fee and the guard won't let us through because we have a guitar that doesn't have a case. so we have to go get it wrapped and check it in. as we are getting it wrapped I hear over the intercom "LAST BOARDING CALL FOR FLIGHT PR 106 BOUND FOR VANCOUVER AND LAS VEGAS." that's our flight. and these people are taking there sweet time wrapping it. and it cost P300.00!! 

Me = FREAKING OUT MORE. I was counting our money and I was certain we wouldn't have enough money to get through the terminal, and we would miss our flight. And If we missed our flights we would be stuck in Manila because we have 2 cellphones that didn't work and no money. So we are checking in the guitar, and this person in front if us was taking forever! it is now 4:10. and i knew that if we had to pay to check this in, we were done for and stuck in Manila. So i prayed. I prayed so hard I started to cry. And luckily we didn't have to pay for it.

And so we pay the terminal fee, P750.00. We had no money left. Except the P100.00 I got out of the atm. We get to immigration. he asks for a departure card. we don't have them. So we have to run ALL THE WAY back to the check in counter and fill out these departure cards. Run back to immigration. 4:17 pm. Crap. We've missed it. So the immigration guy clears us, and i ask "Our Plane is already boarding" and he says "Yes. Maybe if you run out onto the runway you'll catch the plane" and laughs. I didn't think it was funny at all. 

So we get through MORE security, and they said gate 5. so we run!! and when we got there they were searching everyone's bags. inspecting everyone! and that gave us enough time to catch our plane. But I nearly had a nervous break down.

I miss the Philippines. Haven't started adjusting yet. hopefully I'll get used to it. It's Heartbreaking to leave. My heart is in the Philippines.