...safe few divers and almost kill one with the boat anchor ;)

...hallo hallo.....just finished my first day of rescue diving course....will be here till thursday evening...so pretty much everyday online huhuhu back to speed :) ..as for the course ...I am super tired...spent few hours in the water trying to rescue panicking divers, trust me it is not easy!!!! the course is just 'one on one' meaning just me, instructor and few philippino divers whos task is to act different scenarios ....and yes they do lots of jokes on me...in the end of the day we went for a 20 minutes dive..I thought course is over and I can relax suddenly one of the divers start panicking on 20 meters and I realize that he is out of air...I didn't know if it is real or not...well I start to act -shared air with dude and took him to the surface..sudenly on the surface he fliped again and start panicking again...I was out of energy and had to grab his hand turn around while he was kicking like mad and make sure he can't move anymore...thanks god filippino guys are small...anyway towed the guy to the boat and took his wieght belt out and all the gear...crawl mysef first to the boat that took him out of the water...that was my unexpected rescue scenario...I am really happy that my instructor play tricks on me...well I do the same on my climbing students and thats the way to learn the most...but this is not the end...when we drove back to the shore one dude fell to the water on purpose again and pretend drawning, I had nothing floating to throw his direction so I took extra BCD (diving west with air)we had on board I used all my energy and while throwing I cought the anchor on the way which made her fly to the air and almost hit the guy...everybody was exploading from laughing...what a quality day it was!!!!!

....NINIA.....

...So as you know I left my backpack at Ninia's little wicker house. I took off for whole day to explore chokolate hills...beautifull little hils ...hmmm why chocolate not sure....I got back to ninia. Her babies saw me from the distance and run and jump to my chest...I decided to stay that night with whole 19 member of her family in the house probably having 300square feet. At around 7 we all took off to praying ceremony of somebody's death. There was about 40 peopl gathered together. I become the main atraction, everybody wanted to talk to me and they were really interested about everything. It was very powerfull night interacting with the poorest from the poorest. Later on together with Ninia we took her father motocycle and took off to the night market. I bought lots of fish for whole familly..... And guess what, that was the night I laugh the most, we al had so much fun at Ninia's house playing with her kids taking pictures and talking about everything and nothing. I learned a lot that night. We went o bed at 10. Everybody was sleeping on the floor covered with thin blankets. Woke up at 4 took a motocykle with a driver and got to the island. I will stay here till tomorrow night. Planning to do some diving....

...I am glad I am not a plancton....

first of all thank you all for great comments, I love hearing from you :)
...Bohol island..how did I get here? hmm let move back to Banaue...so I left the place with tears and crying sky..rain like never seen...got to Manila after 7 hours around 3 in the morning...got tryko to the airport and took off to Lagaspi at 7 am. The same morning met amazing couple (70 years old with the youngest soul ever seen). Phillipno leaving in US, they do missionary work..spent with them amazing two days listening to a heartbreaking stories. They invited me to their familly and I stayed that night with them ...in the end I felt like having a new familly and they trully adopted me :) what a hospitality!!!! mean time I saw Mayon the perfect cone still active voulcano...crazy and powerfull. After Lagaspi I head to Donsol to meet some local whale sharks...it was hot experience..just to let you know I end up snorkling next to 12 m long beast and the shark got either upset or playfull and flip on me and kicked my ass...:) the same night i took a ferry to Masbate and from Masbate over night 12 hours ferry to Cebu...felt like in the prison camp, ferry with two platwforms full (140 each platform) of bankbegs one tide to each other..well I survive the night and met a philippino girl which invited me to her "house" made of wicker. I left my backpack there and I am off to chocolate hills...next few days i am planning to do some diving , rest on the beach and get discent shower ;) miss you all

..hana from Banaue Ifugao...

...woke up witch chikens at 5 am, took a tryko (motocycle with additionall cabine for 2 people) up to rice terracess ...view was astonning..decided to go for a hike...grab a local kid... talk to him for a while and asked him if he wanted to be my guide in the mountains...we took off for 4 hours in the mad and steep terain...kid was super funny...we had great time...back to Banaue at 10 am ...hmmm pancake with pineaple time..delicious. I got little bit crazy about local crafts bought tons of stuff and decided to send it all back home..running around finding box, tape, local lady helped me a lot..we had fun packing and chatting. Trust me people are awfully friendly here, never been to such a place before. After just 2 days I feel like at home, tonight I am taking off back to Manila...with tears saying goodbuy too all the people I met..I know that south will be different..but who knows. Just to let you know my expenses. Breakfast this morning 1 $, big pancake with pinaple....dinner chicken ..yes whole chicken and fries with banana souse 2$, last night accomodation 3$...what a life..plus bought 7 kg of local craft for 20 $ :) sending it cost me 3 times more :)....ok time for me...talk to you in few days from Lagaspi (south of Luzon)...hope to see whale sharks there :) kisses

...the end or beginning of the world...

Vancouver, Tai Pei 12 hours, Tai Pei Manila 3 hours, Manila Baguio 7 hours in the most falling apart bus ever, Baguio Benaue 7 hours in the same condition bus...finally arived to the most magic place ever seen BANAUE....high in the mountains sorounded by rice terraces...super friendly locals...great weather...havn't seen non Philippinos for last two days...not sure what happened to all the turists... feel great..missing you all...sorry for a short update but I am on Dial up :) in two days heading south to another paradise...sandy beaches...kisses :)