2002-2005 (c) GetJealous.com, All rights reserved. http://www.getjealous.com/zaraandcallum/rss.xml Hey guys, welcome to our site. WE'RE IN THE PHILIPPINES, Check out our blog for updates! Xx http://www.getjealous.com/zaraandcallum http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2704732&go=zaraandcallum It"s strange to fit back into normal life after having an almost out of body experience working in the Philippines. It doesn"t seem real the way people are living in the dumpsite, but yet it is. How do we adjust to the way of life we"ve grown up with? Is it still acceptable to walk into Marks and Spencer and spend £60 on food when I know in the Philippines that could feed a fam... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2704732&go=zaraandcallum Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2704731&go=zaraandcallum The last couple of days of house building fly in. We"ve established great relationships with the locals and feel less out of place as "whities " in the middle of a dumpsite, it"s become a bizarrely friendly place to us, not all of the locals turn and point when we walk by, only some point and shout "Hello Joe ".We have built 5 houses in the space of the two weeks wi... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2704731&go=zaraandcallum Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2703728&go=zaraandcallum On Wednesday we start our 3rd house. This house belongs to a woman who has 6 children, 5 by her first husband and 1 by her new husband. It is with the new husband that she will be living in this house with. He is keen to help us build which is great. Ariel is part of this family, who I mentioned in a previous blog. We"ve all grown quite attached to Ariel while we"ve been here. He is a ki... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2703728&go=zaraandcallum Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2703443&go=zaraandcallum Tuesday comes and we are fair cracking on with the second house. Callum sacks the carpenter as he is too slow for us now and we get rattling on with the house build. The heat of Manila in summer is a challenge in itself. Usually when I"m surrounded by this heat I"m horizontal on a sun lounger and the only action my hands get are flipping the pages through a holiday novel or occasionally ... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2703443&go=zaraandcallum Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2702975&go=zaraandcallum On the Sunday we had a long lie, 7.45am, 30 mins longer than normal! We were going to the dumpsite where the church is based. It's great that it's right in the middle of the people's homes, easy access. The service was powerful, in Degalo, the native tongue, but worship songs were in English so we could sing along. Katie and I headed out with the Sunday School and there was about 30 children... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2702975&go=zaraandcallum Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2702505&go=zaraandcallum It feels like we've been away for months. When I think back to when we left, it does seem like ages ago. We've been super busy the last few days. Sleep? What is that? I so need my 8 hours sleep a night but here we are burning the candle at both ends! We 're young, we can survive, for 2 weeks. Saturday saw the progression of the second house. We've got the hang of it now and are taking on our... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2702505&go=zaraandcallum Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2701917&go=zaraandcallum Day off-we slept! Callum did my laundry. Just before dinner Mike came running frantically up the stairs to get his camera screaming "Jesus is coming"! We all ran to the windows looking to find Jesus! There he was, but not on the clouds, down below on the streets carrying his cross down the streets of Tondo! It wasn't the rapture, this time! Alongside Jesus were the two thieves and soldiers whip... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2701917&go=zaraandcallum Sun, 8 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2701851&go=zaraandcallum Apologises for the grammar/ spelling. Typing on the iPhone isn't ideal. I find it incredibly random that while we're working away building Mary Grace's house we can hear the howls of Filipinos croaning away to Celine Dion on the karaoke. Every 3rd house pretty much has a karaoke machine and the neighbours and family come round to bash out a tune, eh not sure what exactly you would call it. How ... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2701851&go=zaraandcallum Sat, 7 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2701680&go=zaraandcallum Brenda, the youth worker from the charity we will be building houses with, came and introduced herself to us and took us on a tour of the sites we'd be building at. The next day we were to start work! Day one of the house build.... We are to build a house for a 19 year old woman called Mary Grace. She is a tiny, frail lady who suffers from depression after giving birth to her daughter one y... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2701680&go=zaraandcallum Fri, 6 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2701669&go=zaraandcallum Back in Scotland it is easy to say to people we are goiong to build houses in the Philippines. It sounds courageous, almost glamourous. Fast forward a few days, we are wading through thick black sewage, smelling a smell that engulfs your every sense and crying inside at that fact that this life here in Tondo, Manila is a life that people live. People live here. People live in a dumpsite. Thousands... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2701669&go=zaraandcallum Fri, 6 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT