Author: Lindsay Cope

Diving Anilao, Batangas

Diving Anilao, Batangas

I have long awaited to dive Anilao.  One of the exciting parts of my site transfer was proximity to this dive haven.  Over Holy Week, …

 

Coral Gardening in Calatagan Part 1

Coral Gardening in Calatagan Part 1

Above: The nursery in Lapu Lapu from our goral gardening training. Below: Same nursery, one year later. Significant growth in coral and fish recruitment! Almost a …

 

The Cope’s come to the Philippines!

The Cope’s come to the Philippines!

Family Portrait at the Chocolate Hills When I accepted my invitation to the Peace Corps they promised that they would visit me in the Philippines. After …

 

same same, but different

same same, but different

A young monk returning from collecting alms in Chiang Mai Flowers, sold at the local market, used as offerings to religious statues and relics. Outside one of …

 

Christmas in Bataan and Surfing and New Years in La Union

Christmas in Bataan and Surfing and New Years in La Union

Happy Holidays to all my friends an family back home.  Despite the overzealous christmas decorations and pop-music christmas carols, that start in September mind you, …

 

CALATAGANDA – How to relax in Calatagan, Batangas

CALATAGANDA – How to relax in Calatagan, Batangas

A starting motor startled me awake, I lifted my head to see the orange sunrise cresting over the mangroves, chasing away the black night sky. …

 

Comic Strips for Solid Waste Management

Comic Strips for Solid Waste Management

Calatagan, Batangas has efficient and effective programs for coastal resource management.  I spent my weekend near a dense mangrove forest just a couple hundred meters …

 

#AlDub a Philippine Phenomenon

#AlDub a Philippine Phenomenon

I finally regained access to my blog after several months of being locked out from the Middlebury server.  Wrote this back in October, more “new” …

 

Kitty and Lulu’s Adventures in the Philippines!

Kitty and Lulu’s Adventures in the Philippines!

Katie arrived to Manila late on Saturday July 18, 2015. I picked her up at NAIA Terminal 1, the notoriously horrible Manila Airport ranked as …

 

I promised

I promised

I promised to sit down and write a reflection about Manila. About what I saw, as I had never seen poverty the way I have …

 
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