Oct
4
Antique
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Kerwin and I went to the province of Antique this past week. We went to the towns of Bugasong and Tibiao to see relatives. Our relatives took us around Antique to Kalibo, Aklan where they hold the Ati-Atihan festival every January. It was definately a very intriguing trip since this part of Panay is not traveled by most tourists.
These towns don’t even have cell phone coverage which is unusual for the Philippines since it has more than 30 million cell phone users, which is about one third of the population.
By the way, I picked up a cell phone here and have begun to learn how to send text messages. Text messaging is very popular in the Philippines due to costs. A phone call costs 7 pesos per minute while text messages are only 1 peso. Even at 7 pesos, its still cheap compared to the cost of cell phone usage in the US.
Switching gears now, I think I have gained a few pounds since we seem to be eating out all the time. I now have joined a gym in Iloilo City to shed a few pounds. I have not worked out in more than 8 months, so this is very good. Well, ciao for now. Someone is kicking me out of the computer.