Visiting Basag, the Hot Town in Philippines
- The New JTS Activist’s First Journey
JTS Activist, Lee Jae-Gon
“Can you tell me where I can wash my hands?”
Whenever I ask something, the children in town become very shy and busy to run away from me. They just smile at me who looks different from them. High grade students randomly understand my English but the lower grade students don’t understand English at all. I don’t know how speak Bisayan(Mindanao language) either, so I made a gesture like washing my face. Even though I try so hard to know where a bathroom is, they just point at somewhere and never tell me exactly where it is. I asked one of the school teachers this, and he said, I should go for about 1Km out of town to get water. Continue reading