Snack time! We went to BJC, where Halo Halo was invented. Yum! This is a shaved ice treat with coconut milk, sweet beans, various jellies, and topped with cheese. It may sound like a strange combination, but it works and is delicious! This was a great pit stop because we had already done and seen a lot, and the heat of the day was really starting to increase. Having a cold snack hit the spot. Rose also bought some thin cookie tubes for us to try. Also tasty. The next stop on our adventure was going to a ceramics factory. This area of the Philippines has a lot of clay. We saw the process they use to refine the clay before transforming it into pottery. We saw a group of people who had drawn designs for the ceramics. We also saw some masters at work. One man was making a tall vase. We saw another station where people were cutting shapes out of various pieces and then spray painting them. We saw some ceramics drying in the sun, while other pieces were fired in one of the kilns. While this is considered to be a factory, it did not look like a factory that we have in the US. There were lots of open spaces, with no temperature control. There were sections that were miserably hot! I’m not sure how people manage working there every day. I guess you get used to it, or at least deal with it by having fans blowing. There were some incredible pieces for sale, and the prices were cheap! If it had been easier to transport these, I would have bought more.
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AuthorJenn Henderson is a Teachers for Global Classrooms fellow. She will be traveling to the Philippines in June 2017. Archives
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