Prayer, Music & Food

Some surprising lessons for me here - - almost all group meetings that we have attended in schools and in government have started with prayer. In the Capitol University (our home office for the month), there was a meeting last week that started with 3 people saying 3 different prayers out of respect for the convergence of multiple religions here. Love that!

Today's meeting started with prayer in the form of a contemporary Christian song, and ended with a contemporary pop song. Love that, too! These were the students confidently sharing their voices and musical talent...beautiful!

Music is everywhere here...the malls, the streets, the cabs. Coldplay, The Cars, Foreigner and Celine Dion all on the today's taxicab playlist :-)

Today, Tina, Ashis and me were asked to be guest speakers at the college to share our experiences with eCommerce. Our experience in Switzerland, India and US are quite different than the Philippines. My input to the meeting was contained to my personal online shopping experiences! We take for granted households with multiple computers, smartphones and internet access. In emerging areas like this, there is still much work to do on internet infrastructure and still a long way to go on trusting the whole online shopping experience.

 

Finally, almost everything here involves sharing food...all good there, too! The warmth and hospitality of the people here has been amazing. I am humbled and thankful...