Day - 4

Hey everyone back in Australia

Today's the 25th of November and we started the day with a breakfast that consisted of pancakes with a Filipino sweet cinnamon syrup, pork spam and an omelet and rice. After our breakfast we drove to the IRC and started our mission work,  team Alpha and Charlie did some construction work while Bravo worked in the bakery, near the end of our work, for last twenty minutes we worked very hard in the construction work, even the children at the IRC were helping us out with moving heavy bags of sand. We left the IRC at 10:30 am to go back to the guest house for lunch which was a variety of dishes including spring rolls, chicken dish, Filipino potato and sweet corn salad with rice.

After lunch we boarded the bus and left for a La Carlota, on our way we stopped at a supermarket where we were given P60 (Peso) to purchase anything we wanted, after that we were treated to time at a internet Cafe where we could contact the outside world. Once we had finished we again boarded the bus and headed for a school where we would compete in a basketball game for the boys, and a volleyball game for the girls. Upon arriving at the school we were warned about the students in the school, and that they would treat us celebrities. And, they were not wrong, we arrived to over 4000 screaming students  and I mean really screaming. We then started our games with a prayer and we went off to have a good time, we played three quarters of basket ball lasting eight minutes each with an end score of 49 (Australia) to 57 (Philippines team), the volleyball game had two halves ten minutes each with the end score being

25 for the Philippines team and 10 for the Australian girls. As soon as the end whistle blew we were swarmed by the 4000 students asking us for our pictures and names and autographs, four of the boys were really popular Elliot, Nick, Jay and Evan. Micaela signed a guy's face and Evan was asked by a girl if she could have his sweat towel. Sadly we had to leave our new friends and fame behind.

Before our hour trip home, we stop at a church where dinner was cooked for us, we enjoyed chicken on a stick, barbecued pork with rice. We stayed in the church for a while after dinner just talking to each other before returning back to the white house.  We then all had showers, wrote in our journals and reflected on our day as a group. Lights out.

Well that was our day today, see you all when we get home Jay and Stephen.