Below I have put pics of 2 items that have become invaluable to me as adjust to life on the mission field here in Cebu..... The items are quickly becoming more important to me than the friendship of my best friend Matt... okay maybe not quite that important... but a close second...
Anyway... as most of you faithful friends who have emailed me in the past week know, I have had a bit of trouble with my stomach...You know... the kind of trouble where if you move too fast or sneeze at the wrong time there is suddenly a need to.... how shall I say this...."RUN FOR YOUR LIFE TO THE NEAREST TOILET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
One email said... "I cannot believe you are having trouble.. I would have thought your stomach would have been a steel trap by now." Let me just say ....WRONG!!!!!!!!
ITEM #1
Item #2
For the past 5 days the 2 items above were life savers.... the Jansport bookbag was a must.... only for the sole purpose of carrying item number 2 around. It is a necessity for several reasons.....
1. You never ever know where a bathroom ( commonly referred to as a C.R. in the Philippines.. C.R. stands for Comfort Room)
2. If you are lucky enough to find a bathroom.... chances are its full, its broken, or there is a closed for repairs sign on it....
3. If you find a good working C.R. there is about a .5% chance that the bathroom will have any kind of toilet paper...if you are lucky enough to find a C.R. with toliet paper.... it is most likely sand paper........ thus you need to always have a bookbag with the toilet paper packed neatly inside......
For all of you planning a trip overseas...regardless of where you are going... these 2 items just might need to go along!
P.S. I forgot to mention... most of the toilets do not have seats, and the toilet paper from your bookbag will greatly aide you in those situations as well..... Have a great day!
4 comments:
I am right there wiht you!!!! :)
Sorry Jed... couldn't help but laugh. Not at your situation, but at your message and it's tone. Just another thing to add to the prayer list for you.
Hang in there,
George
hehehe... Jed, u r funny man... everyone here in the office is laughed because of this blog. We didn't realize how important our "tissue" (thats what we call it here) is to you...anyway jed, in case u ran out of these, i have tons in my drawer. U are free to get some. hehehe...
I appreciate your willingness to get inconvenient to serve others.
(i am ur biggest fan!) hehehe (jed paid me to write this...hehehe)
man, reading this makes me miss the philippines even more.
have you wrote about the difference of "tissue" and "napkin" yet? that has been cause for many confusing looks in the past.
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