1.1.
Departure
of Munich with NAVIS team. At the airport NAVIS members and Thomas Bergmann PSF
said us warmly good bye. Spontaneously a passer-by gives money for our mission.
The flight with Emirates Airline is very comfortable. Even the bathroom with
several fragrance essences resembles a wellness spa. The food is excellent.
After arriving in dubai I think about the contrast that expects us soon. The
Heineken, that our men treat themselves with, is 12 dollar!! We celebrate
Christopher’s birthday with a brought pyramid cake with candle. Because of the
time difference he has a very long birthday with 1,5 days.
The
chocolate out of camel milk is interesting. There are Swiss precision clocks,
jewellery, high end cosmetics and nearly everything the heart could wish for
and the purse can afford.
In the
departure hall a Philippino gives profuse thanks to us for our help. We are on
our way to Manila and the atmosphere changes. In the plane the stewardesses
warmly thank us as well. The flight is 8h and we are all very glad to finally
move our legs again. We then move them quite extensively because get announced
the wrong terminal for our flight to Cebu twice. With “secret paths” we finally
get our flight just in time.
2.1.
After
repeated controls we are in the plane to Cebu. There we are welcomed by Uwe
Polakowsky. After the obligatory group photo we are going to Lapu-Lapu, where
we are expected with a delicious dinner and (even better) a shower. We have
only 3h sleep left, but we don’t let ourselves disturb by the screeching of the
chicken or the truck that fills the newly built pool. We will use the pool on
our return.
Uwe is
German and has lived in Cebu for 2 years. From the beginning he supported our
mission. He took care of the pickup, transport and interim accommodation of the
volunteers as well as other transports. We are very thankful for this support
and Andreas Portugal gave me a thank-you-parcel for him. NAVI brought him
wholemeal flour. Since Uwe misses our German bread, he wants to bake himself.
He was very touched and sayed that we didn’t need to thank him. He is just glad
that he can help and thinks our mission is great. He has never met so many nice
people at the same time before.
In the
beautifully made garden there are tame rabbits.
After a
good breakfast we are going to Tacloban with the plane. It is only 10 kg
luggage per person allowed; we are supposed to pay 500 Euro for all of our
excess luggage. Uwe and Lars try to negotiate. We fly; if we need to pay or
not, is not yet clear. The departure delayes because there is no power to clean
our plane, resp. to drain the waste water. We could have slept longer…
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