Red, ever since I went to the Philippines in 2010 I have wanted to return. I was invited last year, but my circumstances would not allow me to do that. I have an invitation when they go next, but I think they are waiting now for retirement, is what I was told, and then they will go for several months, like during our winter. I probably won't stay for several months, but my friend told me I could stay as long as I want and then return on my own, which would be good. We will see what will happen.
My last nutrition class I took for my teaching certificate was an online class, and there was one student who could not find a text book, and I ended up buying 2 of them, one new, lots of money, and one used, great condition very cheap. So this student got in contact with me, and I told her that I would sell her the text for what I paid, and then I would ship it to her for free, because I didn't need 2 books. I learned a week or so later that she was from Cebu Island and had not been back to the Philippines since she had been going to college here. She invited me to her wedding in Cebu Island where her family is, but I have kind of lost track of her by now, and I am not sure if she returned and got married or not. I still have her e-mail address, and I should write to her and find out. She was a nursing student living around the Seattle, Washington area, and with her boyfriend there.