Helping your filipina adjust to life in the US/not get too homesick

[rlogan 2,036]

wow she is a real worker !!! that is a big pile of wood. I only put up about 5 cord here in New Hampshire.

That's about half of one pile (spruce). There's another pile of birch by the door.

Twelve cords total if I work a lot in the shop through the winter and use the hot tub often. Cabin, Shop, and outdoor hot tub all have wood heat. At fifty or sixty below zero we fly through wood.

how has your wife been in the cold? mine thinks 70f is cold

She's more of a man than most men, and a hottie to boot. I bought her an expedition weight polar outfit from Apocalypse design for a thousand dollars. It's what the dog mushers wear for races like the Yukon Quest and Iditarod. Bunny boots of course.

She's never cold because she's sensible. We've broken down on the snow machine trail seven miles from the cabin and had to walk back at thirty below zero at night. No problem. She was eight months pregnant.

i'll start my wife out driving the lawn tractor & the put her on my old 40 horse farmall.

after that i guess it will be the old corolla that i have. & if she can drive all of those i'll see how she does on one of my old toyota pickups, they are tough as nails so i'm not worried about her hurting them.

I take one to the scrap yard once a month with about 2500lbs of brake rotors piled up in the bed, I would haul more but i don't want to overload the old thing

The only thing I haven't had her drive is the 55,000 lb dump truck. It's 15 gears and you have to be really on top of it.

I don't let her too close to the cabin with the 'dozer.

I love my Filipina.

PS: does your wife still wear flip flops in Alaska?

mine thinks she will wear them here but i think most of the time it will be too cold for those.

she has about 30 pair of them

Hahahaha! I had to watch her the first summer. Look what she's wearing in that picture! I bought her steel-toed hiking boots. Ten miles out in the wilderness on the four-wheeler. Jump off to do some off-trail hiking in some really gnarly stuff. What's she wearing? Flip flops!

[piglett 16]

That's about half of one pile (spruce). There's another pile of birch by the door.

Twelve cords total if I work a lot in the shop through the winter and use the hot tub often. Cabin, Shop, and outdoor hot tub all have wood heat. At fifty or sixty below zero we fly through wood.

She's more of a man than most men, and a hottie to boot. I bought her an expedition weight polar outfit from Apocalypse design for a thousand dollars. It's what the dog mushers wear for races like the Yukon Quest and Iditarod. Bunny boots of course.

She's never cold because she's sensible. We've broken down on the snow machine trail seven miles from the cabin and had to walk back at thirty below zero at night. No problem. She was eight months pregnant.

The only thing I haven't had her drive is the 55,000 lb dump truck. It's 15 gears and you have to be really on top of it.

I don't let her too close to the cabin with the 'dozer.

I love my Filipina.

Hahahaha! I had to watch her the first summer. Look what she's wearing in that picture! I bought her steel-toed hiking boots. Ten miles out in the wilderness on the four-wheeler. Jump off to do some off-trail hiking in some really gnarly stuff. What's she wearing? Flip flops!

he he he is there anything that she really doesn't like?

to do or to eat or whatever.

I used to run coast to coast for the military when i had my freightliner FLD

it only had 10 forward gears but ya you really have to know what your doing.

my wife wants to grow a bunch of stuff (vegtables i guess)

i'll get a rear tiller for my tractor & let her plant whatever she wants

she is really a homebody so i'll have to find lots of things for her to do/help me with.

piglett

PS: does your wife always lug wood while wearing a dress??

[sachinky 464]

Make friends on the basis of character, not their nationality.

+1000 -- couldn't agree with ya more!

[rlogan 2,036]

he he he is there anything that she really doesn't like?

to do or to eat or whatever.

You know, we just like to be together 100% of the time - that's the main thing.

She likes american food and I've always liked filipino food so no problems there.

I used to run coast to coast for the military when i had my freightliner FLD

it only had 10 forward gears but ya you really have to know what your doing.

Yea, you have to know the sweet spots on the rpm going up or down.

my wife wants to grow a bunch of stuff (vegtables i guess)

i'll get a rear tiller for my tractor & let her plant whatever she wants

Yes yes! Funny thing, the Filipinas in my wife's circly hardly eat any vegetables at all. But I garden and show her how.

she is really a homebody so i'll have to find lots of things for her to do/help me with.

Then I think your life will be WONDERFUL.

PS: does your wife always lug wood while wearing a dress?

No, she wears her nightie too.

This is her climbing into the tree fort about a mile from the cabin, and a stiff hike up a steep hill:

What am I going to do? Kick a hottie out of my moose stand for wearing a nightie?

[piglett 16]

No, she wears her nightie too.

This is her climbing into the tree fort about a mile from the cabin, and a stiff hike up a steep hill:

What am I going to do? Kick a hottie out of my moose stand for wearing a nightie?

[Jared and May 16]

Getting her a license/car is huge..

We just got a 2nd car and it's been the best thing we ever did.. She doesn't even drive it that much, but it's there when she wants to go out.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I would second the caution about making "friends" with other Filipinos. Make friends on the basis of character, not their nationality.

Making social connections based on cultural background, especially for someone who is trying to adjust to a different culture is tremendously beneficial. That doesn't mean they are going to become close friends with those other Filipinos, but it provides a social network of support that they came to rely on back home in the Philippines. Culturally, Filipinos are outgoing and friendly. For some Americans, especially those who tend to be reclusive or introverted, such openness to social connections can seem threatening or intimidating.