My Philippines Trip

Originally published at Angels Dust. You can comment here or there.

It's always hard to attempt to recover from jet lag within a few days, but I have to do it, I go back to school and work Monday.

I arrived back in the United States from being in the Philippines for two and a half weeks last Thursday. The very next day, I had tickets and meet and greet passes to a New Kids on the Block concert, where I didn't attempt to recover from my jet lag and stayed up that night...all night. (I will talk about this later, this day is another story in itself.)

It is truly sad to leave my family in the Philippines. I got used to having family around all the time, to those who know me, you know I hate being alone. The company of having my family around was nice.

Not to mention, a trip to the other side of the world is not exactly cheap, so it's a trip I cannot take often. Since I was a kid, I've been going to the Philippines every 5 years or so. Well this time I waited almost 7 years, which is 7 years too long. Hopefully I will not make this mistake again. I plan to be very frugal with my vacation time at work so I can have the opportunity to fly back out there and see them again in another couple of years...not 7.

The flight back was rough. I flew from the Philippines to Guam within 5 hours and had a 7 hour layover in Guam, so I had a lot of time to do absolutely nothing. Then I flew from Guam to Tokyo, where I flew to Houston, Texas and waited another four hours, not to mention the amount of time it took me to get through customs. They shave you with a fine tooth comb, which I guess is a good thing.

Here it is Sunday morning, and I'm not tired and don't see myself sleeping anytime soon since I took a 6 hour nap. Seeing there is a 12 hour time difference between Ohio, USA and the Philippines, it might take me a good week to get adjusted. Let's just hope a gallon of Red Bull will keep me from falling asleep at work and during class this week.

I took almost 400 photos from my Philippines trip, but you can see them in my photo album.