Thirstday in Manila!

(Almost forgot to put up these, this was before the karaoke send off party)

From the CS-manila meeting:

Me and Sabrina couchsurfed for a few nights in Manila, that´s how we met Benny;

 This thirstday-thursday we were thirsty for pitchers with some blue drink that made us all look very pretty ;P

We also couchsurfed at another guys place, his name is Deric and he´s hosted over 900 couchsurfers, quite impressive!

Karaoke and dancing send-off party!

Before I left Manila I wanted to sing karaoke one more time and go out dancing so I wrote an invation in the Manila group on facebook that everyone that wanted to join could come so we ended up being around 20 people singing together and having a really great time!

I met a lot of really nice people in Manila and I´ll be back for sure to see them again :)

Friendly´s Guesthouse

In Manila I stayed at Friendly´s Guesthouse in Malate,  a really nice place!

One of the nights there were local guys entertaining by playing drums!

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Met Arne, a danish travelreporter and his girlfriend Myra



Benny, the owner of Friendly´s guesthouse, here he was  serving toron to all the guests, its a dessert with banana in lumpiawrapper that tastes really good :)

Intramuros

One of the days Richard took me to Intramuros, he thought I needed to see something else then the Divisoria-market while beeing in Manila ;) We visited the museum and I got to learn some about the national hero of Philippines, José Rizal that fought for the human rights but was executed accused of being a rebell.

"Man ought to die for his duty and his convictions. I maintain all the ideas that I have expressed concerning the state and future of my country and gladly I’ll die for her, nay, to obtain justice and tranquility for you.”

“I have always loved my poor country and I’m sure i shall love her until my last moment, should men prove unjust to me. I shall die happy, satisfied with the thought that all I have suffered, my life, my loves, my joys, my everything, I have sacrificed for the love of her.”

“I wish to show those who deny us patriotism that we know how to die for our duty and convictions.”

Carved in the wall of the cell he was kept before being executed