Thursday 22nd March
Today began slowly, we met at the Zaycoland Resort with our hosts, said a farewell to our wonderful GSE Coordinator Jundad and drove around 2 hours to our next stop, Bacolod City.
Bacolod is very different to Kabankalan, not only is it more commercial and Americanised with one long street that the city is based around, malls and KFC, the Rotary Club also seemed to be more formal. That is until after our introduction and meal we were suddenly invited to join in with their signature activity - dance aerobics!!
We were then treated to a rendition of the local traditional dance, the Maskara.
On Weds the 21st our fun packed day ended with a 'Barrio Fiesta' given in our honour. We were treated to music from 30 school children and wonderful local dancing from Southland students. There were lots of Rotarians, including DG Mel, who had travelled all the way from Antique to spend the evening with us... this would have taken him around four hours of driving and one hour of sailing!!
Here's a couple of pictures of the event, sadly for our resident vegetarian Helen, they had also roasted a pig for the fiesta.
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