Steph's Adventures

Last Thursday and Friday, at the end of three weeks induction for the applicants, and after two months of heats for the others, TVED celebra...

There have been a huge number of things that have struck me here, too many to count, and certainly too many to write about without boring p...

Yesterday, invited by Father Mac, we took a break from curriculum planning, and went out into some of the very poorest parts of Cebu City to...

We have been lucky enough to arrive when the 3 week induction programme for the applicants to the vocational training centre is in full swi...

It is nearing the end of our second full day at Don Bosco Technology Center (or DBTC) and so far it has been excellent. We have been made t...

Over the dinner table at Provincial House, we shared many conversations, some serious, some less so. One of the priests, talking about the ...

Watching this video , in which Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about the dangers of telling the "single story when any i...

A lot can happen in a short space of time - and in the 3 days we have been here, a lot certainly has! There has been a huge amount to take i...

We made it! We have arrived in Cebu, where we are staying at the Provincial House (the local headquarters of the Salesians) for a couple o...

Three and a half months after handing in my notice for my job in France, and about two months after learning that the Philippines would be o...

Last weekend we attended our second Salesian training weekend. When we attended the first, back at the beginning of June, what I knew about ...

With fingers firmly crossed that the visa is back on time, and an arm full of rabies vaccine, now seems like a good time to reflect on the p...

Although I have really set this up to write about my next adventures, it seems reasonable, surrounded by boxes and awaiting the arrival of r...