3 years ago, me and my friend was going for a trip in the Philippines. I was boring in my life, I was working in Laos, my life was getting crazy. I had no vacation, no weekend, working for a whole day, 24-7. My life was getting very complicated. So, me and my friend, we could plan to travel to the Philippines for the rest of the month. At the beginning, I just don’t got no one to stay with me, travel with me. I managed my friend who is kind of like starting a same place, same college. So he was working like me in a computer and a whole day. Just sitting in the computer, so not a freshman, no vacation. So we make a plan to travel for the pin. So we’re starting looking for a flight, looking for a hotel and marking some place in the whole Philippines for travel for almost for two weeks for 15 days. So our flight was in 21 August so he was pretty excited to see the place because it was the first time I’m gonna travel to the Philippines. Our flight was so nice. We landed in the Philippines then we traveled there. Hotel it was so clean. The hotel was very friendly. The people were so nice and then starting travel hour places. I was in a beach side, ocean side. I was try the local food, I try the local culture, I talk to the local people. I mean a lot of people from different countries. For example Chinese, Japanese working there and I try a lot of dishes from different countries too. Then we do some hiking. Also we capture some video and stuff about your trip and that make me very refreshed. You know, then we try to do some stuff about Taro and I just make one Taro for me in my hand it was so nice and back to my home country after finishing our 15th trip and then it was so memorable because you know they that event make my life very happy and I feel very refreshed. So I recommend to people if you’re feeling bold just do a trip they make life very interesting
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Three years ago, my friend and I went on a trip to the Philippines. I was bored in my life; I was working in Laos, and my life was getting crazy. I had no vacation, no weekends, working all day, 24/7. My life was becoming very complicated. So, my friend and I planned to travel to the Philippines for the rest of the month. At the beginning, I didn't have anyone to stay with me or travel with me. I managed to convince my friend, who was in the same place, same college. He was working like me on a computer all day, just sitting at the computer, with no vacation. So we made a plan to travel to the Philippines. We started looking for flights, looking for hotels, and marking some places in the Philippines to visit for almost two weeks, about 15 days. Our flight was on August 21, and we were pretty excited to see the place because it was the first time I was going to travel to the Philippines. Our flight was nice, and we landed in the Philippines, then traveled to our hotel. The hotel was very clean, and the people were friendly. We started traveling to various places. I was by the beach, by the ocean. I tried the local food, experienced the local culture, and talked to the local people. I met a lot of people from different countries, for example, Chinese and Japanese, who were working there, and I tried a lot of dishes from different countries too. Then we did some hiking. We also captured some videos and took pictures about our trip, which made me feel very refreshed. We tried to do some activities with Taro, and I made one Taro for myself by hand; it was so nice. After finishing our 15-day trip, I returned to my home country, and it was so memorable because that event made my life very happy, and I felt very refreshed. I recommend to people, if you're feeling bored, just take a trip; it makes life very interesting.
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