Your Top 4 Wish-List Travel Spots (money is not an Issue)...Where would you go? What are the top four travel destinations on your wish-list? Don't think about money, just think about the places you dream of visiting the most. Here is my wish-list: - Chile/Patagonia - China/Great Wall (definitely going there before I leave China) - Ghana/Experience Africa - France/Paris (I'm choosing France as my final destination in the hopes that you all would allow me to sneak into Switzerland, Italy, Spain, and Germany while I was in the neighborhood. Pretty please!....?)

Should foreigners even try to learn Tagalog? Is it worth it for foreigners to bother learning Tagalog? - I have felt conflicted about this recently. When traveling in the Philippines, it rarely seems necessary to be able to speak Tagalog. Almost all Filipinos can speak some English and most can speak far better English than I can ever hope to speak Tagalog, sooooo...should we even try?

First notebook entry: Introducing myself Mabuhay! Ako si Matt. Masaya ako na nahanapan ko ang site na ito at sana gagaling ako ng Tagalog. Salamat sa pagtulong ninyo. Ingat, Matt