Day 22: Friday 23rd June

Friday we had a leisurely morning helping out in the office, finishing reports and cutting out hundreds of paper shapes as well as doing a bit of tidying of our room and some washing.
After lunch Ate Fe took us to pick up some of the children from school.
As there are so many children who want to go to school here and only limited teachers and resources the day is split into two sessions with half of the children going to school from six to lunchtime and the others doing from lunch until about five or six in the evening.
We got stared at by most of the people there but the girls were pleased to see us and insisted on introducing us to their friends and showing us their classrooms. After that we were dropped of at the CCM office so that we could video an interview with Kuya Arnel, the director of CCM. As Sarah didn't bring her tripod I had to hold the camera so my arm was aching by the time we finished!
We then headed of to Gateway to get some presents for the children. When we had asked Ate Mai what we should get she told us to get socks and umbrellas, so we ended up getting 21 pairs of socks and 15 umbrellas!! I think the staff of the shop thought we were strange, they kept telling us that there was 15 umbrellas and seemed shocked we when said that that was right! We also got hats for the two smallest girls as they don't need either sock or umbrellas and presents for each house and little things for the housemothers and social workers.
Although when we left the office we thought we had too much time to shop we ended up taking about three hours getting those things and got back to the office just in time!
We took a jeepney back to Masinag and it was the most scary jeepney ride I have ever had! (not that I've had that many!) The driver was a maniac! Both he and the person who sits in the front seat and takes the money kept asking us questions, such as "Are you american?" (which got confusing as we were with the American girls and one of the girls from Hope house, so there were two English, three American and one Fillipino!) and then in reponse to our answer, "Where's England?" so I resigned myself to the fact that we would be refered to as Americans for the journey! I think they were talking about us at one point as well, because I kept hearing the word 'Americano'. They obviously felt confident enough that we didn't speak the language to talk about us whilst we were still there!
But we got home in one piece, had dinner in Hebron and then went to bed!