Hello you all!!
We arrived at Manila around lunchtime and have had a wonderful day here. In a few hours we'll be flying to Guam and reach the final goal of our trip.
In Manila, we have visited a large market where we actually bought some things. What we first noticed in Manila was that it was very crowded and polluted. The air didn't feel very fresh if I should be honest, and it were markets everywhere. One thing we noticed quite quickly with Manila, was that the city didn’t feel particularly affected by Asian. Since the alphabet is Roman, we could actually understand some signs and the residents spoke very good English.
In one place we bought sunglasses because mine had disappeared and I really needed a couple, but we had some difficulties understanding the vendor. We all stood and waved with our hands, trying to get the other person to understand, because the vendor couldn’t speak English very well. This is an evidence for how difficult it’s to understand each other when we don’t speak the same language and how important language can be for us. Eventually we managed to understand each other and could buy the glasses.
We arrived at Manila around lunchtime and have had a wonderful day here. In a few hours we'll be flying to Guam and reach the final goal of our trip.
In Manila, we have visited a large market where we actually bought some things. What we first noticed in Manila was that it was very crowded and polluted. The air didn't feel very fresh if I should be honest, and it were markets everywhere. One thing we noticed quite quickly with Manila, was that the city didn’t feel particularly affected by Asian. Since the alphabet is Roman, we could actually understand some signs and the residents spoke very good English.
In one place we bought sunglasses because mine had disappeared and I really needed a couple, but we had some difficulties understanding the vendor. We all stood and waved with our hands, trying to get the other person to understand, because the vendor couldn’t speak English very well. This is an evidence for how difficult it’s to understand each other when we don’t speak the same language and how important language can be for us. Eventually we managed to understand each other and could buy the glasses.
Manila was a really great city, with traffic everywhere and after an action-packed day in the market, we decided to head toward the airport again. The only problem was that we didn’t found our way back. The clock was already quite a lot, so we felt a bit rushed because we had to find our way back. After going in circles for a while and asking a number of people, we didn’t know what to do. Typically us to get lost, even when the market wasn’t particularly far from the airport, no Brain, no Pain ;)
We managed to find the airport after a while and we'll soon board the plane! // Emma
We managed to find the airport after a while and we'll soon board the plane! // Emma