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Show February 28, 1963 THE SPRINGVILLE (UTAH) HERALD Page Seven Couple writes of Peace Corps experiences in the Phillipines Editor's note: The following letter was received recently by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Boyer from their daughter Naomi and her husband Fred Bonney, concerning their work with the Peace Corps in the Philippines: What a wonderful experi-ence we have had the past ten days. It was most educat-ional, interesting, beautiful, dreary, wet, muddy, dusty, and busy at one time or another. We are very thankful we were able to have had such an ex-perience. . We arrived home in Solana Monday night about 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. I believe it was closer to the former. Yester-day we filled out reports and out beyond this community but you must hike to them. The one girl does exactly that: she hikes to the various barrio schools. The other girl works in the laboratory there at the hospital. They are both there because that is where they want to be but Fred and I both agree that it is too cold, wet, and dreary for us. They say that when it is clear and warm there the scenery is breath-takin- g. The rice ter-races there are numerous and famous. We could only see fog and clouds. Perhaps we can return someday when the wea-ther is clear. We hope the pic-tures we took are good. We almost shot two rolls of 36 exposures (we will send the one now and the other very soon). The Mt. Province is the most rugged and remote area in the Phil. It is the last to become civilized (the people were like the American In-dians with the people believing and practicing paganism. When we were in Bontoc we stayed in a hotel with a manager knowing a great deal about the different tribes of people, some of their beliefs, dress, and customs. We read a few books about these people on of their ways which were very enlightening and in forming. We feel that the PCV's going to Mt. Province will have some difficult ad-justments to make and their stay can either be very ugly or a most, rich, rewarding exper-ience. They will be able to learn an awfully lot from the people particularly if they find satisfaction in their work. We learned more in 10 days than we could have in 10 weeks in school. There was one muni-cipality which was the most remote in progress where no visitors were allowed to enter the village (Sadanga) because the people were having some kind of a three day ritual prior to the planting of their crops. If someone broke this three day ceremony they would have had to start over and repeat the complete three days of sacrificing, etc. The men make large holes in their ear lobes in which they insert dif-ferent things from a pack of playing cards to herbs of the mountains. Some women do this too. Because of the cold, most of the' children have colds and other respiratory diseases. The snot runs out of their nos-es and their clothes and hands are covered with dirt. We fig-ured that if the people did wash their clothes often enough they wouldn't get dry because of the dampness in the air and many days of rain and fog. Therefore, the whites look like dark greys as far as color goes in cottons. Every-one is barefoot, no coats or sweaters for some of the chil-dren, and strangely enough quite resistant to the elements. If American children were ex-posed to such living conditions they would all be sick within a day. Fred caught a cold and was running a temperature one afternoon so he went to bed in the hotel and took some medicine. Our medical kit is well supplied with effective medicine including antibiotics. Needless to say, after arriving home we both have colds now but nothing serious. We were able to buy some beautiful wood carvings at very reason-able prices at a little shop along the road. We also bought two bamboo nose flutes ($.25 or one peso) which are quite a novelty. The natives have played them for years; we can even blow our noses, too, and with a little more practice we'll really have something. In-stead of blowing them with your mouth you use the breath from your nose. It's very prac-tical, wouldn't you say? The hillsides near Baguio have poinsettes growing wild. erary of the Ballinos. He used to work in the FBI and seem-ed like a very good, sensible man to have in his position. He doesn't want to be wasting our taxes. The next day, Monday, was declared a National Holiday unexpectedly by the Pres. at midnight Sat. night Therefore there was no school in session even though many children as well as teachers were: not aware of the change until ar-riving at their posts and be-ing sent home. We met with the English Supervisor, Mr. Veloso, in the District Office so we could begin our travels the following day. We visited Pines View Park, the Baguio Market which is the cleanest one we have seen in the Philip-pines, took pictures, and strol-led in the park. Baguio is a lovely city very similar to many cities you find in the U.S. It has electricity, running water, a sewage system, many cars and even clean sidewalks! We are sure it has changed a great deal from when Barney and Ada were there. They pro-bably wouldn't realize it was the same city. It is the only city that has a (meaning one) stop light between Solana and Manila. There- are many beau-tiful, modern homes and lots of scenic views with a cool breeze that is delightful. At night it even gets a little cold They are bright red, large flowers and surely an eye cat-cher. Thanks for the news clipping of our write-u- p in the Spring-ville Herald. It was very nice. Well, Fred and I like our little house in the lowlands. We will take the remaining ten pictures on our second roll of film which we took in the Mt. Province and will send it on to you. Tell all our friends and relatives in Springville hello for us. May the Lord bless and keep you, Love, Noami and Fred. other odds and ends in and again this morn-ing we are at Tom Newman's (this is his typewriter), the PCV Leader of Cagayan. Since we have completed our paper work and Tom has not re-turned from Laoag yet I will make j use of the typewriter while I can. We flew to Baguio on the 19th and met Dave Ziegen-hage- n, the PCV Leader in the Mountain Province. We soon found out that he was swamp-ed with work and had asked us to come to his rescue. He oriented us on the work we were to do: meeting with the teachers in the various schools and also arrange housing for the new-comi- PCV Group IX which will be assigned in the Mt. Province. The next day the three of us went with Mr. and Mrs. Ballino, a government man from Wash. D.C. making a check-u- p on the Peace Corps Program in general, more spe-cific the financial end. He talked of Pres. Kennedy and his brother like they were old friends and it seemed rather strange to have contact with such a man. The 5 of us went in a Peace Corps Jeep (only PCV Leaders have access to a jeep) to visit some of the schools outside Baguio. We picked Mr. and Mrs. Ballino uf at the Ambassador's summer home there in Baguio which is quite a sight; that's where some of our tax money goes. Our day was very pleasant and ended with a good conversation around a delicious American meal of Butterfly Veal Steak at Camp John Hayes. There were many Americans there and in Baguio and did it ever seem strange to us to be around so many fair complec-ted people. Camp John Hayes is for U.S. Service Men and Government Officials, but is off limits for PCV's. However, we were guests of the Ballinos and enjoyed a real, cold drink of icewater and 2 huge, deli-cious banana splits, besides our full course dinner. Really, it took us all afternoon to eat it. We discussed some of the problems of the Peace Corps, our experiences, training for PCV's, finances, the Peace Corps in general, and the iten-- The next 7 days were spen' traveling in a jeep (an almos new Peace Corps jeep) ovo-man-kilometers of road; stee' roads, narrow roads, bump; roads, muddy roads, rock; roads, winding roads, dusty roads, one-wa- y roads . . beUevp us we have seen them all They are so-call- Phil.-Nat'- Highways but compare with the roughest roads you find in the canyons of Utah unsurfaced and only one-wa- They sort of remind me of the time Daddy took us and the neighbor kids in our old jeep up Mapleton Canyon. I remem-ber the road became almost a path but Daddy kept going right up the hillside. In spite of the roads we enjoyed the pine trees and thick vegetation growing over the majestic mountains. We saw some of the world famous rice terraces (took pictures) which the Mt. people built hundreds of years ago. The engineering of their irrigation systems is a marvel! We saw men wearing and a few women rather ex-posed; the men and boys will wear a with a shirt or coat to keep warm. Their buttocks don't seem to mind the cold. We found that many of the teachers throughout this province were able to speak English rather fluently and well. This is probably because there are so many dialects there that they are forced to use a medium of com-mon expressions . . . Eng-lish. We visited two PCV's way up in the sticks or I should say clouds. They are living in a CARE Hospital in the small town of Mayoyao which is at the end of a steep, muddy, one-way road. There are barrios and to track individuals or to break up riots. Should citizens meet an of-ficer with the dog, they are advised not to shake hands with the policeman or to make a move toward him as the dog is trained to protect the officer and may mistake any move toward him. The animal should be ignored at all times, the police officer stated. Ten Governors from Mid-We- st ask farm aid. 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