Pagbag-O (bring change)

I like that i am learning Waray while i am here. It is a lot of fun. people get excited when you try to communicate with them in their own language. I have been trying a couple more traditional Filipino foods. Balute is the baby duck egg that is a specific amount of days old and you eat it. When i ordered it down by the ocean the guy asked... 15,16,17, or 18? I was like... um just one please. then i realized that you choose how old the duck is that you want to eat. HA> So i got the 18 day old duck egg because i figured it would be the most developed. It didn't taste that bad. LIke a really salty boiled egg. But i hate boiled eggs. I also recently tried Cuttlefish. If you don't know what it is you should look it up. They are gross. But had seen pictures before coming here so when it was on the menu i thought it would be funny to try... nope. it was gross. REALLy gross. they have way more suction cups than the squid... and i have a hard time swallowing the squid already. But i got through it. The rain was VERY bad here in Tacloban the past two days. I have some amazing pictures. the roads were flooded and i didn't go out side because the water was above my boots. In my house my room flooded and we had to move everything out and put down towles. but it was the flood that came from the side of the walls again.. not bucket worthy. there was no way to prevent it from going everywhere besides towels on the floor. I have been seeing a lot of mice in my room so i bought a sticky trap yesterday.. there were 3 mice in it this morning. JErry noticed i bought one and bought some more.. when i got home he said he had put more in my room and while i was gone he had caught 8 more. IN MY ROOM. and my room is very tiny. for those of you who have been to my mom and dads... it is a tiny bit bigger than their bathroom. very small. only a bed and small dresser fit. and th door hits the dresser everytime i try to open it. so that is a lot of mice for that small area. But that is ok. Anyway.. i don't have much time and i am getting tired. I hope to hear from all of you. things are getting pretty tough and i could use some encouraging emails.
miss you all..

February 28 9:38pm