In June, I wrote an article “Interesting People and Bridge in Davao.” When I started learning, I realized it is a confusing game and needs a decent memory. It is now seven months since I started learning and I am getting addicted to the game. We have also found more players and one of the [...]
If you have read the comments, there is a newcomer here, Steve in Davao, who often comments. I know little about Steve, except he is 51 years old ,he married his Filipina wife in 2003 in the U.S., and they have a 5 year old daughter. They moved to Davao last November and are enjoying [...]
For a while now this site has had a reader and commenter from America. Actually both he and his Filipina wife are readers and commenter’s. They have visited Davao before and had plans to visit again and arrive this month.
A while back he mentioned that once he retires here, it there was something he [...]
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I have always been the type of person that enjoys helping others. Yes, at times, because of my kindness, people have taken advantage of me. Because it is in my nature, I have trouble not being helpful, but over time, I try to be careful.
With this site, and many readers, I have been asked [...]
In July, I added a PayPal Donation button to my site and wrote an article about why I did it. The article “Donations Accepted” was posted on July 20th. My original thought by starting American in Davao was to journal my life living here in the Philippines.
Approximately thirty minutes after posting the article [...]
Here again is an article from John Ray of Palawan Anecdotes. He is kind enough to be a guest writer at times for my site. Our friendship developed back in January when, as a follower of my site mentioned he wanted to move his blog from blogspot to its own domain. With my help we [...]
Last Wednesday the foreigner group I belong to, Friends of Mindanao, made a road trip to Agusan del Norte to visit the home of one of our members, Richard and Jesa. Their home is in Agusan which is about a 3 hour drive north of Davao. We arraigned for two private vans to accommodate [...]
The other night while I was doing some things on my computer, I noticed I received an email from Facebook. The message was “Are you the Bruce from Hemit, CA?” Well I was kind of shocked. I had not lived in Hemit since 1992 and moved from California to Florida in 1997. It turned [...]
Continue reading about A Flash From The Past with the Help of Facebook
This morning I received an email from someone with Expat Interviews website.
She notified me of someone who left a long negative comment about his views of life in the Philippines. Unfortunately he lives in Angeles City.
While running an errand this morning I was reminded of this story from olden times:
An older man was [...]
In the past I have mentioned Filipino Friends and Foreigner Friends. Most of my Foreigner friends are from the two Expat Associations here I belong to.
Well about a month ago one close friend introduced me to one of his friends from outside either groups. I had heard of him when my friend spoke of [...]
Continue reading about Interesting People and Bridge in Davao
As we all know, the Philippines is over populated and there is high unemployment. Then also you have the problem where employers use the system to pay as little as possible.
In the Philippines, if you have less than 10 employees or contract employees that work for less than 6 months, the labor laws and [...]
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In the past I was asked twice to be Ninong (sponser or godfather) at 2 weddings for Filipino friends. One was actually for the son of Elena’s friend and the other time was for Ramil, an Electrician I had used for some work at the house and over the job became friends.
Last week, Jerry, [...]
As mentioned in my article about meeting Evelyn, a Filipina from General Santos City, and her invitation to Elena and me, we went to see her, her friends and her city on Thursday.
Evelyn had a whole day planned for us and wanted us to arrive by 8 am. I set the alarm on my [...]
A while back I received a comment from a Filipina from Cagayan de Oro City here on Mindanao.
As I usually do when I get a new visitor/commenter, I visited her site. Janice’s site My Corner is a nice and light site where she writes about thoughts and special moments she wants to share and [...]
I have written about being a foreigner here in the Philippines. There are many do’s and don’ts and many more I have not even learned yet. As you know if you read my articles, I try to learn cultural differences and try my best to understand when I am at home and when I am [...]
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