Day 7 Tent City and Daranak Falls

The boy's day continued from day 6, as they finished packing the shipping container for Tacloban, finishing just before 2am. Trying not to fall asleep, the lads stopped at Yellow Cab Pizza Parlour, which was amazingly pizzalicious. The boys got into bed feeling all white with the job done at about 3:30am. Four hours later breakfast was served, then once we were all prepared for the day with bathers, sunscreen, water and 'sanitizer" in our bag, we headed off to Tent City. It was an hour and a half drive on  a bus to a rural area outside of Manila. We had travelled to Tent City for a feeding program where we gave out food and made swords and dogs out of balloons for the children.
Seeing how the people had so little and then having it all taken away from them in a typhoon in 2009 was really shocking. The excitement and joy of the children, even though they have s little makes us feel selfish, but eager and urged to help. The people living in Tent City struggle so much because they live so far from Manila, so supplies and money is hard to gather, which shows us that the little bit of work that we are doing is so making a difference to the people.
We then jumped back on the bus and headed to Daranak Falls. The lush, green foliage and the rushing of litres and litres and litres of water gave a tranquil and exhilarating feeling, which led to a few hours that we will never forget.Jumping off rock ledges, which were up to about 4 metre high, into a fresh water pool, about 30 feet deep was an adrenaline rush and thrill seeking. A few of us even managed to climb up under a mini waterfall off to the side and was where we got an awesome group photo. Some of us were disappointed we were not able to jump of the big 10-12 metre high waterfall. We even met and young Aussie called Sarah who had been a student at Rehoboth, and is now working with an orphanage near the falls, also called Rehoboth. Then we had a rock stacking competition to compete for an ice cream, which the Red team won. The stacks were then destroyed by each person being given three shot to hit them with a golf ball size rock, from a distance away.



We returned to the Ministry Centre and after a killer dinner, we headed to the Children's home, where the blue team performed a skit on Noah's Ark. While running around outside with the kids, Isaak face-planted it twice and the rest of us worked up a sweet trying to keep up with the kids.

The evening activity was to got to the local shopping centre called "TayTay" where the teachers gave us 100 pesos ($2.50 AUS) each to buy a snack for the movies. We watched Catching Fire, after which we headed home and collapsed into bed.