Thanks guys!
I have been reading a few other boards, but I like this one the best because I don't speak a word of Tagalog.
The one thing I have recently read on a few different forums was the notion that people from the Philippines aren't Asian. I asked my mom and she said the Philippines is in Asia and she considers herself to be part-Asian. She nearly fell off her chair when I told her there were some Filipinos going around calling themselves Pacific Islanders. That can't be right? What do you think?