Welcome Cebu City

I have enjoyed my first week in Cebu City, meeting lots of people including the town mayor and many head officers of the university. My host organisation have been amazing so supportative in helping me to get from one place to another, taking me shopping and finding perm. accomodation.
I spent the morning at the Braille school, the little classroom consist of two fans, no air conditioner and very limited resources. The children were beautiful, very busy bunch of students but so independent. The children ages range from 5 years old to 21 years old, however it is meant to be a preschool setting! Wish me luck!
The university has asked me to work in partnership and do some lecturing in the special education course, this will be something new for me but I'm highly looking forward to it.
I found a little studio nearby so local to everything. I looked at one little brand new condo apartment on the 6th floor, awesome but so far away from everything!
However, my first night in the studio was an interesting experience to say the least! At 3am I was woken by a crash and then water pouring out - the tap in my bathroom had fallen off from the wall and water was spurting out everywhere. The first thing I did was a huge mistake - tried to put it back in, only to end up soaking wet! In the end I closed the doors, put the bath mat right against the door to stop the room from flooding and put earplugs in to try to get some sleep - not much I could do about it at 3am unless of course I woke the landlord upstairs! They have since fixed it for me!
I have been to the magellen's cross, meet up with my HO friends who had a brillant view of Cebu City but also views of the slums down below and meet up with other volunteers in Cebu City. I have shopped at both the SM and ayala malls as well as mingled with the locals! I have been asked for money by many homeless Philippinos and followed across the road by a local who kept scratching the back of me neck!
I have found the store that has vegimite and even caught a jeepney on my own for the first time!
Hope everyone is doing well!
Love Zoe

The Cebu City Town Mayor

Some views of Cebu City

Slums down below from the house

A child living in the slums

More views of Cebu City

My supervisor from my HO

Some of my supervisors friends

Magallan's cross and a local praying for happiness for me!

The gate to my shoe box!

Just some photos of inside the shoebox

Meet chocolate, one of the two dogs that live here!

The lane to my place, I'm the blue place on the left!

Some locals selling food on the street.

Don't forget to check facebook for more photos!