Travels With A Ladyboy 2: Culture Shock
My plan had originally been to make my trip to Asia after Christmas, but Crissy had told me that she was unlikely to be available then. I was in contact with a number of girls, but only she had that spark, and I knew I wanted to meet her. She was lively and enthusiastic, but had an edge about her and a depth too, that I liked. She had a way of just knowing what I was thinking, even before I said it, that always bodes well for a new relationship.
So I rearranged my schedule. In fact, November is the best time to go to southeast Asia in any case. The typhoon season should have come to an end, and the temperatures are relatively low, with lots of sunshine. In addition, flight prices are twenty per cent or so cheaper then, than in March or April. I readily persuaded myself that making the trip sooner was justified on a whole raft of counts; other, of course, than my interest in getting to know Crissy a whole lot better...
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I have to agree about the poverty in the Philipines it is the vast chasm between the haves and the have-not’s that is most shocking. My brother’s wife is Filipina her family are from Midanao and are quite well off, we went to visit them a few years ago in Davao. They live in a gated community typical of those you see in Florida, but literally 200 yards outside the gates you see the most appalling poverty of the ordinary people, who are literally “dirt poor”. After that trip I have always said when I hear Europeans complain about “the poor in the UK” that there are no poor people in the UK. There are people who have ridiculously more than others, but those with less have no concept of real poverty.