Month Two in Haiku

U-S-A-I-D
The American Chamber
Important meetings

Asia-Pacific
Housing Forum – some long days
Of documenting

Housing for the poor
Breakout sessions – disaster
Cutting-edge thinking

Four hundred people
Attended the Forum from
Thirty-five countries

Day trip with big-wigs
Pasig River squatter homes
Then to their new homes

Leadership Conference
HFH in the region
Strategic thinking

Typing conference notes
It felt like a term paper
Now posted to web

Sending out emails
Fundraising appeals
Building contact lists

New PCRV
A big change in my routine
But she’s very nice

Ondoy/Ketsana
Metro Manila big floods
Major disaster

Now an urgent need
Working on relief effort
More storms on the way

Meanwhile, some travel
Corregidor Island trip
Key in World War II

American Cem
etery – nice to go back
And read all the maps

Summer Capital
Baguio – Burnham design
Museum, curry

To the Visayas
Circling Siquijor Island
Swimming, relaxed feel

Hong Kong getaway
City views, great food, good friend
Walked, swam, saw a lot

Now I’m one-third done
Time seems to be going fast
But still a lot left