Bababa ba? Bababa.

Things just keep getting better! One of my most favorite things since being in the Philippines is the way the men laugh. They giggle! They don't have to be macho or too cool, they just laugh and they laugh alot. Some of the men at work giggle so hard over their own jokes that they turn red and have to cover their faces. I'm not just talking about laughing, I'm talking about out of control 12 year old girl who has a crush giggle. It's so great! Yesterday we were talking to some of our co-workers and explaining how we love that they laugh so much and that you wouldn't necessarily see American men do that. They were so perplexed and couldn't understand why you wouldn't just laugh. One of them even tried to be controlled and macho with his laugh and he couldn't do it, he broke out in giggles.

I learned something else cool yesterday. In Tagalog "bababa" means "going down". "Ba" means "is it?". So when you approach a person next to the elevator and you want to know if it is going down then you ask "Bababa ba?" (Don't worry it gets better) Then to respond the person would say "bababa". Isn't that so great?!

Yesterday was just full of great little treasures. After work we went to a restaurant called "Singing waiters and cooks". It was this really cute native place with native decor, decorations, etc. Our plates were made out of palm leaves and I could not pronounce anything on the menu (nor did I have any idea what it meant). The cooks and the waiters walk around and sing to you the entire time. These people were singing and dancing in between serving us food. There were probably 10 of them just singing and dancing. They were really good. There is nothing like feeling as if you are living in the middle of a musical for a few hours.