Today it is precisely one more year until our wedding! Who ever has been in the Philippines these days can imagine, how our biggest worry for an August wedding would be the weather :-|. Especially considering our german guests are very fond of the idea of a beach wedding and wouldn't want to negotiate on that ;-). And August 21 it has to be because it is the only time that both Sonny (my mom) and Thilo (my uncle and our priest) will have holiday since they live in different parts of Germany and, as teachers, don't share their whole summer holidays.
But reading that it rained more in the last 24 hours than it usually does in the whole month of August makes us hopefully wish, that we'll catch one of these "usual" Augusts by 2014. It is not just about the wedding - we also want to travel with our friends and families and especially make the germans fall in love with the Philippines, so that we can be sure to be visited a lot over the next years ;-).
This is my summer break and I'm very happy to be able to spend 6 weeks with my fiancee! In all the dramas, damages and annoyances a flood like this brings to a country, at least for us it had also something good: We had a very close first together-week here in Makati which reassured us that together, we can get through any rough path without getting on each other's nerves.
We hope everybody affected by the flood is fine, as are our friends and family in Germany and around the world! Keep returning for updates and have a great remaining summer!
-Jakob
