Cebu 1- The people

It's been a while since I left Cebu, but very often memory still draws me to this warming and lovely place. During the  journey, the most memorable part, is probably the people. In my eye, Filipinos are genuine and friendly; their characters are actually quite similar to Taiwanese people. The subtle difference I think might be that they're more optimistic and passionate to  their daily life, their jobs and whatever happened to them.

To be honest, I really enjoy getting along with these cute people even though the way we look at one thing is far from each other. One of the funny experience I encountered was that it took me a while to realize Cebu is a city where people recognize you as Korean as long as you have yellow skin and you don't look like them. I took it as a compliment at first since Korean usually look nice due to the fact that they really care about their looks. I felt flattered until my teacher told me that local people called me Korean simply only because of my small eyes and pale skin. Alright, what a culture shock. Lol.

離開宿霧已經好一陣子，還是常常會想到那個陽光明媚又還蠻可愛的地方。這個寒假，我去了一趟菲律賓，在那待了一個月，上了四個禮拜的語言學校，也玩了四個周末。這趟旅程中，我最有感受的，我想應該是人。在我眼中，菲律賓人是個天真爛漫的民族，率真又可愛的個性其實和台灣人蠻像的。比較不一樣的是，他們更為熱情吧!(可能海島真的熱)

關於當地人，我覺得最可愛又讓人無奈的其中一件事，是在宿霧，只要你有一副亞洲面孔，他們就會無條件把你當作韓國人。我原本還把他當作稱讚，畢竟韓國人不是都很注重外表嗎? 這樣表示他們應該是覺得我看起來還不錯吧! 結果根本沒有，我和我的老師假抱怨真炫耀時，她馬上潑一桶冷水，說那是只是因為你眼睛很小而且皮膚比我們白啦! 哎，老師妳太誠實了啦，讓我繼續作夢不行嗎! (只能怪那裡韓國人太多了，但眼睛可能都比我大XD) 

The beach of Oslob where whale shark watching serves as its tourist feature. (It was not a very pleasant experience for me though)

Sky view of Cebu city from a restaurant called "tops"; like the name suggests, the place has the closest distance to reach the sky in Cebu.