Sunday, November 13
Edward P. Jones, Will, and I checked in at Centennial Airport Terminal 3 for flight PR-293 Manila - Dumaguete. A smooth flight, which departed and arrived on time. We were met at Dumaguete City Airport by Dr. Eve Mascunana, Coordinator of the Writers Workshop at Silliman University, and two majors. EPJ received a cattleya lei.
We checked in at La Residencia Hotel, then proceeded to one of Post's 14 American Corners, this one based in Silliman University. Lorna Yso, AC Director, met us there.
EPJ headed a dialogue-discussion with 23 (we asked for a small group of 15) Literature faculty students and majors, after which Dr. Cecile Genove, Dean of the School of Communication, interviewed EPJ on-cam for her TV show on Channel 6 Fil-Products, and for the Visayan Daily Star. Cecile promised to give us a DVD copy of the broadcast version.
Dinner that evening was hosted by University President Ben Malayang at the President's House on campus. Ben gave a succinct but interesting history of Silliman University. Among the guests were Ian Rosales Casocot, an award-winning fiction writer we recently sent on the IWP at Iowa University (as we did Vince Groyon), and a female Creative Writing scholar from India.
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