Mahubay!
Welcome to the Philippines, SEALNet PP08!
We’re off to a great start! Today was our first time with the entire team together! After Lorra and a few others finished picking up everyone from the airport and giving them a warm welcome, many of us explored the local Robinson mall for lunch. We walked around the department store looking for good shoes for project days, got lost up and down the escalators, secured some awesome nametags for the kids from stationary store, and got our share of Mang Inasal bbq. 
A few more team members trickled in towards dinnertime and by the evening we were good to go. After a scrumptious Chinese dinner on the 20th floor, we convened for our first team meeting. We introduced ourselves, discussed our personal and group stakes in this project, drafted our intended impacts on the audiences we’re working with, and recorded our metrics for evaluating outcomes. Above all, we are going to strive to provide ethical, effective, sustainable, and FUNN education about worm control and prevention. It was a very uplifting meeting in which brains from around the world put their ideas, aspirations, and values out on the table towards a common purpose. We all agreed on making our team discussions a safe space for members to personally “stretch” their own boundaries and abilities.
Tomorrow should be great. We’re meeting the high schoolers and one of our sponsors for dinner! For now..yay PP08!!
Meera
Thanks for getting this blog up to date! I’ll be reading every day until I am able to be closer on Sep 3 4 5 and 6!!! Have a great time!!! (By the way, it would be great if someone wrote an entry about what Project Philippines intends to do early on
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-Ryan Torres
Great guys! Great to hear from you, I’ll be checking in too and wishing that I were there!
JH