In this post, I'll give ya'll a little more info about my town, Roxas City, and what a typical boring day in Roxas City is like.
The archipelego of the Philippines is divided into three general regions: Luzon, the northernmost island encompassing Manila, the southernmost island called Mindanao, home to the third largest city and supposedly the nicest, called Davao, and between these, many smaller islands that and are collectively known as The Visayas. The Roxas City where I reside is the capital of a farming province, called Capiz, on an island called Panay, located in the western half of the Visayas. Check out this map.
Roxas is to the Philippines as Springfield is to the United States, it's a pretty typical town. It's the self-acclaimed seafood capital of the Philippines (kinda redundant), so there's plenty of oysters, mussels, prawn, squid and all kinds fish, selling for really cheap. On the downside, it means there's hundreds of fish ponds, swampy water, and mosquitos that love my bony ankles.
A typical day for me here in Roxas involves getting up as the roosters begin to crow at around 7:00 then having some toast with jam, with a slice of papaya on the side. Then I head to work by bike around 8:15. After work, I'll typically stop by the market to buy some veggies or fish for supper. I chat it up with my buddy who sells halo-halo (lit: mix-mix), a sweet snack made of ice, condensed milk, sugar + all kinds of jellies, tapioca, ube (a purple tuber), melon. When I get home, I water my garden, then make supper. Afterwards, I'll go to the beach and have a beer with some friends, slackline or sit around the apt reading and maybe check out the stars.
