It sort of felt like being in a different world as - apart from returning for the Brookside prayer meeting on Tuesday night and helping put the kids to bed - I stayed at the Manila Centre for the two nights and three days (where we were meeting). It did mean I had two good nights of sleep though! Steve took the Wednesday off to look after the three kids and our helper and a friend of hers looked after Josh and Naomi on Tuesday and Thursday - although they had pre-school Thursday morning to keep them busy. Rose travelled on the van with her classmate after school on Thursday as he is our managers' son and they are good friends so she had an adventure and we travelled home by taxi when my day was done.
Getting a taxi to take us home was a lot easier than getting a taxi to take me there. The first one we stopped agreed to take us (sounds strange but some don't like going to other bits of the city as they may not get the fare back. Technically you are allowed to complain to the Government dept when they refuse to take you but I have never tried. It seems to me that would probably not be as straight-forward as it suggests!). But on the way out to Quezon City, 3 taxis refused to take me and one wanted 500 pesos for a 120 pesos fare. After 3/4 hour waiting I ended up getting a jeepney first to a place that a taxi would take me from.
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