Arrived safely in the Philippines! And I survived the 10 hours at Beijing airport as well (I am not a big fan of airports tbh). Since Facebook and blogspot.com are forbidden in China I spent my time drinking two Starbucks coffees, reading research papers and wrote some scholarship applications.
Here in Manila I´m staying in the area Makati, my contact person Tommy has relatives who have an apartament I could use. Yesterday, after sleeping until 3 pm Philippine time (still jet lag) I went shopping with Letty (Australian relative to Tommy) and the driver Toto. Got my self a Philippine phone number! After a few hours shopping we went for some Philippine food. Milk fish, sallad with mango, tomatoes,unions and rice. DELICIOUS. When we were ordering the food I saw this Swedish flag and asked if the pork was from Sweden, the people in the desk just laughed and told me it just was a price tag. Anyhow, it was quite funny since there was a Swedish flag among all the Japanese ones!
Today I spent a couple of hours writing on the thesis. Have this deadline tomorrow. And at the moment I am waiting for my other contact person Emil to pick me up for some dinner! Busy days, aight. But in a few days I will be surrounded by white beaches, blue water and coconut trees. Can´t wait!
