Manila--November 2008

We spent Thanksgiving on the way to the Philippines where I gave a lecture about Filipino English in the media sponsored by the Philippine Linguistics Society. Carrie gave mom a digital camera when mom visited at Halloween. We weren't quite sure how to recharge it and use it so I think we erased all the pictures we took in Manila. We did get these pictures of me after the talk (dressed in my barong tagalog), the place we lived in 1996 (Valle Verde Terrace), and MegaMall, once the biggest mall in the world. We lived about 1 mile away and walked there every night to shop, eat, go to the movies, ice skate, or just cool down in the aircon, as they call it there. This picture is from Shangri-La mall next door, another of our favorite hangouts for cooling down.