thanks! You guys helped me a lot with the history page!!and the fun facts! :D

Yeah I can be a good tour guide. I'll be touring at the Intramuros, our famous walled city built at the era of the Spanish colonization... to Boracay and many others...
Congratulations to your A grade!

:D I can see it now

We'll be the welcoming party. Imagine us at the airport with banners saying "Elisabeth Mumford - over here!"

:)

Elisabeth wrote: "Thank you guys so much for helping me with my report I got an A!!!! You guys are amazing! With the report done I kind of want to learn even more about your country! Like the language or at least ho..."
I would if I could but I'm not exactly rich. Trust me I now have a dream of it!! It would be so awesome to go! :D

Kumusta - Hello :)

Come and visit the Philippines, Elizabeth! Jzhunagev can make a great tour guide. :D

Thank you guys so much for helping me with my report I got an A!!!! You guys are amazing! With the report done I kind of want to learn even more about your country! Like the language or at least how to write in your language! If there is anything you guys can teach me I would be grateful! You guys are awesome! :D

Oh yeah... :P forgot about that

Sorry. I mean, the For Fun folder.

i think we already have this one. See the Games folder.

Okay then we can start a poem/story writing contest or a game where someone starts a story and the others will have to decide what happens next?

Jzhun!

But we need someone who's really good in Filipino to correct mistakes, right? Is there anyone here?

What about though? Rules? Say exactly what you want.

Let's start it then.

Think about it, and when you're ready, let us know and I'll start it :)

Yeah! I need it, too.

But how do we start it? A filipino RP? LOL Like not a real RP. But I don't know how to call it.

Wonder if I can start another topic about this in the group... hmmn...

We have to do this! I just need to keep in touch with my Filipino :P

Why don't we start a filipino writing group to improve our writing skills using the language, right?

Anyone up for it???

Thanks! :D

Elisabeth wrote: "I need some history of your country. I'm finding it difficult to find the right sources on the internet. So if you have any suggestions please tell me. My report is due Friday! "

You can go to Filipiniana.net. It's the Philippine's answer to Project Gutenberg. Loads of resources there.

I need a short history of the country from its early beginning to modern day 21st century. It has to be more than one page.
A detailed description of the geography of the land: Landforms, Mountains, rivers plateaus, plains, deserts, inland seas, canals, etc.
Its area in square miles. Population density.
Population
Annual growth rate, and the infant mortality rate.
Major religions.
Government type, suffrage (voting), political parties, and the countries independence day
Education: Adult literacy rate, the school system and how it works, etc.
Economy: currency (money), per capita income, gross national product or gross domestic product.
Major imports and exports
Timeline of important events
The culture of the country. A page on customs, types of food, traditions holidays, etc.
Pictures
interesting facts
I don't have much information on the history especially so I hope you can help me! :D

Also, try this group: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/435....

Which period of history?

I need some history of your country. I'm finding it difficult to find the right sources on the internet. So if you have any suggestions please tell me. My report is due Friday!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_...

http://pinas.dlsu.edu.ph/history/history...

What is the report about? Tell us more about the report, which facts you need, etc.

I need some history of your country. I'm finding it difficult to find the right sources on the internet. So if you have any suggestions please tell me. My report is due Friday!

LOL Violeta...:))

Filipino servants-overseas are making this country live. Sinong kokontra at ipadala ko sya sa Sulu ngayon din...

Lynai wrote: "So what's the matter if we're a nation of servants? As Jessica Zafra puts it, we're on to world domination. What would happen if all Filipino servants all over the world stopped working and rise up..."

I already do dishes and my own laundry.

In the same vein, we shouldn't believe that all citizens of HK agree with Mainland China. Not all of them have the lowly brains of Chin Tsao.

Haha, yeah I like to think we're on to world domination, although I don't think it'll be entirely because of our maids. ;)

So what's the matter if we're a nation of servants? As Jessica Zafra puts it, we're on to world domination. What would happen if all Filipino servants all over the world stopped working and rise up in protest? The whole universe, including China, would be left washing their own laundry and doing their own dishes.

Don't mind China. They're rather secretive, and I think they lied as far as the Olympics go. I mean, come on, those girls looked like they were 12 yr old!!!

I read that in the newspaper. A HK columnist Chin Tsao wrote that China shouldn't "bow to us" regarding the Spartlys issue because we're just a nation of cheap labor servants. I agree Maria, I too felt hurt and insulted. True, we send maids abroad but its unfair to generalize us as a "nation of servants". China built most of their economic boom on cheap labor and factory workers but we don't generalize them as cheap laborers.

Besides, I don't understand why they have to do with Spartlys. It's not like we're the only country claiming it (Vietnam, Taiwan and Malaysia have also tried to claim it), but we probably have the most credible claim to it, so maybe that's why he's harping at us. :(

Some foreigner's have been calling our country a "nation of servants".I was totally hurt that some of them don"t appreciate our culture that much,but they have their points of views,don't they?They have their own opinions,and we filipinos respect that....Don't we?

:D

And they say there is a financial crisis here? Filipinos don't seem to mind the crisis basta lang makapag send ng text messages. :)

Yeah, people do say that the Philippines is the texting capital of the world. Filipinos love to text since it's a cheap way to stay in touch with friends and family as well as people you don't know. I know some people who can't go a day without sending someone a quote or a chain message or jokes. :) We're just inherently social, I guess...

well its not exactly little I guess in a figure of speech it is What I'm saying is that the Philippines has more than 7,107 islands! biggish/smallish I guess!! Still that is a lot of text messages!!

Amazing what a little country can do :)

:D LOL!!

Oh my gosh! Really wow! Come on Filipinos keep sending those texts :)

I was just wondering I heard that it sent more text messages in the U.S. and England per day combined!!

Text capital? As in texting messages? Probably everyone in the Philippines seems to have a cellphone and texting everyone :P

Hey is it true that the Philippines is the text capital of the world?

the substance of our law are American-influenced. We don't have divorce, but many of us here do not only separate themselves in beds. they also separate in real lives with respective lovers of their own. There is still other native beverage-- basi [take that from Subanen and Higaonon:].
Megastorms, Nepotism, and Ghosts' abundance... i agree.
Many of us sleep with ghosts too. Hahaha.

"15) American-style justice system"

I think not. Theirs is jury system.
And we don't have divorce here.