When we stayed on Panglao Island, we were so fortunate to get invited into the local chapel, where a lady we had met did voluntary work as a teacher in song and knowledge about other cultures - such as ours. The children aged 4 - 14 were practicing for the annual "music festival" and as a kind of trial run we were invited to see them. It was a very special experience - on one hand we felt fortunate to sit there and see these very enthusiastic children sing at full throttle - I have never heard anything like it - and on the other hand we felt a bit self-consious because the children payed SO much attention to us- staring, learning the feeling of being different - so different. As the children sang the tears almost came to my eyes and I went goosey all over. These children had POWER and were perpetually smiling - even though they had no Playstation, TV, computer and so forth. It is so great to experience this when you live in a country were most children complain or cry their eyes out if they can't get the new edition of a stupid videogame or the truck they want.