Manila afternoons

Aloha from Manila.  We arrived safely via Philippine airlines.  However, during our flight we were already challenged with a healthcare crisis.  A passenger needed medical assistance so our instructor did an assessment and one of our students recorded vitals every 15 minutes monitoring the woman's blood pressure, which was 180/110 at the time of assessment.  She was fine for the rest of the flight and as we leaving the plane after landing a doctor came on board for further assistance.  

I must say how impressed I was with Philippine airlines.  We got three meals, headphones, pillows, blankets, and a small pouch with an eye mask, socks, & toothbrush and toothpaste.  I was most pleased with the presence of foot rests, in economy class even!  We rode to the hotel in shuttle vans.  I was in awe at the roadways and traffic flow in the city.  WOW its scary.  Instead of using blinkers, drivers just honk their horns and move in an insane, hodgepodge fashion.  They seem to have no worries about hitting each other.  There's four lanes on the roads but eight cars across the lanes...how does that add up?  I'm not sure at all, I'm quite glad we will not be doing the driving here.  We have just checked into our hotel, the Mabuhay Manor in Manila and we're all utilizing the various forms of communication to the mainland and Hawaii...mostly internet as the phone costs about $3 a minute for long distance.  Our plan for the evening is to meet up with EJ (another student who made the trip yesterday), go the Mall of Asia for dinner and some shopping, followed by an early bedtime.  I'm curious to see how this jet lag thing in gonna work with our sleeping habits.  Yah for Tylenol PM!  Tomorrow morning we take a 6 hour bus ride to Baguio City where we will stay for the majority of the trip.  Magandagabi (means goodnight).  

Aloha from Kimmie, Melanie, Alfred, Janelle, Roxanne, and Ines.