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Family Values

One thing that seems to be common in the small villages is the sense of helping family. The first child does not attend university until the next one is old enough to work to pay to put them through, and then the second one goes when the first is working etc... Not many of the children want to stay in their small villages and grow rice (in the mountains they can grow only enough to eat, not enough to sell and make make money) so this is a method that is common to allow them to attain a higher education and achieve their goals. Both of our guides that we had were paying for an older sibling to go to school.

Up in the mountain province (and actually in a lot of the Philippines) the family are very poor - yet all seem to have email address and cell phones. It looks strange to see a person in old worn out clothes with limited electricity or hot water texting on their cell phone! A strange dichotomy of old and new - first world and third world...

posted by Doug and Sarah @ 3:09 AM