So, night 2 in the Philippines, some UST students ran across one of the largest fireworks I have ever seen. Immediately everyone gets super pumped about the prospects of lighting this beast up and seeing it rocket around the shore and hit some innocent dive shop....at least that was what my imagination (and everyone else's) was telling us. 
The Missile (as we shall call it) was about $1200 pesos, which is like how much it costs to build a school, feed the students, and pay the teachers for a month in the Philippines (mild exaggeration). We quickly ran around town to round up the exchange students and secure the funding (investment banking style) and negotiated a price. I was VERY pumped about this firework as you can see...
The locals even gathered up around us (mostly laughing because we just got ripped off so badly) as we lit the missile. We were all so pumped as the fuse lit and the firework shot up in the sky...only to deliver the effects of a $25 mortar you can buy at the local firework stand.
WE GOT HOSED
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