Lily is sleeping in an air-conditioned room, snuggled under the covers.
Just hearing the name Mindanao makes you imagine it being hot, but even today it was only about 27 degrees Celsius, and the breeze blowing across the rice paddies was quite refreshing.
Thanks to this, neither Lily nor I suffer from summer fatigue, and we can take naps in the cool breeze coming through the window.
Lily is fast asleep on Gigi's lap.
Lily's expression when her younger sister, Irene, spoke to her in the evening.
He was fast asleep but suddenly woke up and is wagging his tail wildly.
By the way, on the right, Gigi is receiving a massage to help her get pregnant.
Last night when the masseuse came, Lily was stubbornly refusing to move from Gigi's leg, which made everyone laugh.
There were five banana trees growing at the construction site of my house.
Two of the trees were cut down when construction began, but bananas still grow on the other two.
And a banana flower bloomed on the one in the middle.
This is the first time I've seen a banana flower.
Flowers bloom and fall, and baby bananas grow there.
Unfortunately, this banana tree was cut down the very next day, presumably because it was getting in the way of the construction.
I managed to ask them not to cut down the remaining two trees.
The elementary school is three houses down from our new house.
My youngest sisters, Raisa, Gian, and Jinny, will be moving to a location very close to the school once the house is finished.
Gigi was called to Raisa's school by her homeroom teacher.
I wondered what was going on, and it turns out that Raisa-chan has been entered into this year's beauty pageant.
It was exactly 10 o'clock, break time, and lots of children had gathered.
Everyone was very interested in the Japanese person with the camera.
This is a first-grade classroom.
Gian (far left), who transferred in January, is always at the top of her class and will soon be moving to a class with other high-achieving students.
By the way, Jinny is top of her class in all other subjects, but it looks like she'll be rejected from transferring because she can't read English.