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A journal about an American Expat living in Davao City in the Philippines. Articles and posts of Life, family, marraige, observations, experiences and stories of an american in a 3rd world nation.
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Language Barriers in the Philippines
As many Expats in the Philippines, I am guilty. My thoughts when moving here was it will be easy to communicate since everyone learns English in school. I had spent hours in text and voice communication with Elena for about 3 years and had visited he...
At Your Service
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 si...
The Kindness of a Filipina
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 P...
Expat and Foreigner Relationships in the Philippines
Even though there are many Foreigners, or Expats in the Philippines, with the vastness or the Philippines plus the different lifestyles, there are times you hear of a person living here, but have never met. You walk through the malls and see a person...
Peso Mentality for Foreigners in the Philippines
Sunday we started our day as usual, Elena left before I woke to go to Church. My alarm woke me at 7am and I had my juice and a few cigarettes in the Sala (Living Room) as I watched CNN. By 8am I was dressed and drove to the Church to pick Elena up. F...
Living in Luxury in the Philippines
Living in Luxury? What does that mean? A while back a commenter said something that had bothered me. He said when he retired, he could live comfortably in America or he could live in luxury in Davao. He said, to him, it was a no brainer. In other wor...
Road Trip to Agusan
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 fo...
The power of a smile and a kind word
In the past, I have written about how I enjoy meeting and talking to Filipinos. As you walk through a mall, many of the sales people will say “Hello Ma’am/Sir.” Most people just walk by, but being an American, when people say hello, I stop to s...
How life is different living in the Philippines (Family Dynamics)
What do I mean “life is different”; well there are many things that are different. There are some similar things but overall, even the similar things have a different twist to them. The best I can use to describe is things are 180 degrees opposit...
Look before you Leap
What do I mean by the title “Look before you Leap”? If you have thoughts of moving to the Philippines to meet and marry a lady, use the old street crossing motto “Stop, look and Listen”. Do not just meet a lady online, pack up and move here. ...
Life is what you make it.
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 ...
Monument in Israel honors Filipinos
Thanks to Macky, one of the readers here, in his comment from the article Escape to Manila led me to this article online in the Inquirer.net “Monument in Israel honors Filipinos” The article talks about a Monument commemorating President ...
Interesting People and Bridge in Davao
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 gr...
Becoming One With Where You Live (Part 2)
As I mentioned in part 1, given the chance to meet and talk with Filipinos, you usually get to know a nice person. A while back, I wrote an article about a car accident I had where a motorcycle hit the driver’s door of my car. After we got his moto...
Becoming One With Where You Live (part 1)
I have been living in the Philippines now 15 months and I hear comments about and from Foreigners living here. Today at the Palengke I thought about how we are looked at and felt by the local Filipinos. Every Sunday morning we get up early and go to ...
Texas Hold-Um in Davao, Philippines
I personally enjoy a game of Poker. In my life I have played as a kid with my friends, as I older gone to a friend’s house for a poker game. For a while we even had a monthly poker game. In those games it was dealers choice, 5 card draw, 7 card stu...
