This week has been lots of fun. One of the most exciting adventures was when my new companion, Sister Fowles, wanted to try balut, a fertilized duck egg. This is something I've had several times throughout my mission; I think it's really delicious. She first decided to try it last week, so when we saw someone selling it, she bought one and I went ahead and bought one too so she had someone to eat with. We got home and she was very nervous and excited to eat her balut. We both sat down at the table, picked one up, and started peeling our eggs. Having eaten it before, I was much quicker at opening it. This distracted Sister Fowles from her's, she kept looking at mine to see what it looked like. She finally focused and opened her egg... and it wasn't balut. It was penoy- which is just a duck egg, the person selling it accidentally gave her the wrong egg. This week, we had "take two" of trying balut. This time, I intentionally bought penoy because I had never tried it before and wanted too. My companion's egg was actually balut and she enjoyed it very much.
One Monday, we also had the unique opportunity to attend
the Pina Fiber Festival. The Pina Fiber is the world's finest fiber.
Here in Kalibo, they have a small festival and local craft fair to sell
and display products made from the fibers and other local souvenirs.
There were people selling homemade paper, natural soap,
handmade jewelry, and clothing and cloth made from the pina fiber. This
cloth, as it is made from such a unique fiber, was being sold at an
outrageous price. Even converting it into American dollars to try to
lower the apparent price didn't help. We wandered around the fair,
buying other crafts and trying to find someone selling a piece of pina
fabric at an affordable price. We finally discovered
small handkerchiefs made of the fabric. Figuring these 8 inch squares
wouldn't be too unreasonable, we asked the price, then Sister Patricio
kindly bartered down the price so that it was reasonable and we bought
them. It was fun. We came home with lots of pretty things made in the
Philippines.
Well, those are my fun adventures this week. Abo karanasan iya nga wa' sa iban lugar.
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