Impromptu salo-salo

We didn't plan it but it happened =)

I met a Filipina last June at Red Cross office. She went there to ask information about volunteering. I talked to her and right then & there the connection was established. Came the exchanging of numbers and addresses. Although we are in the same city but we seldom see each other but talk on the phone. Until this past week, where we frequently called each other and I came to visit her at her workplace where she was assigned as volunteer.

Just today, my husband can't pick me up after my class because of an important matter to attend to. I called my friend and asked her for a favor if i can hitch a ride on her way home. She's more than willing to pick me and drop me off home. But I told her I will go to her workplace then from there she can drop me off on her way home. So while we're on our way out our husband's post, she asked me if I have any plans for the rest of the day. Since there's none, she told me why not we go to her place and cook a Filipino dish for a "munting salo-salo". A good idea! We decided to cook "sinigang na baka". We bought the ingredients and passed by the Filipino store and rented a dvd movie "So Happy Together" starred Eric Quizon & Kris Aquino.

Man! the "sinigang" was outstanding! We ate while watching the movie. I felt I was in our home back in Philippines having the sinigang for lunch. Then you're sweating as you sipped the hot sinigang soup mwahh! Heavenly! =) And the movie...well a typical Filipino drama/comedy with a bit of sayawan and kantahan ng mga bida. But in whole it's okay.

Even if it started as a mundane Tuesday but it ended a very great one. We had a wonderful time together with our impromptu salo-salo...getting to know each other more being kababayans. We're praying for a lasting friendship. May not be equal to the friendship that we saw in the movie but something that is worth keeping for.