Continued exchange email with my Phillipine friend.
Hi my wife may have given you a greeting and explained about Geisha.She is now coincidentally studying to be a English tour guide,so good chance to practice for her,as well.
Adding to what she explained,Geisha movie made last year in Hollywood was on air here in Japan,but the actress was Chinese girl,not its original Japanese one.If the film you'll see is the same one,anyway you can feel the atmosphere of what's Geisha world is.While she is serving as a Geisha for customers mostly from rich people,there is a chance that one of her customers comes to like her and buy her to make her his second wife.Geisha girls in most case doesn't have so blessed life and there exist many sad stories around them.

By the way I learned the word "Martial Law",yes from what is occurring in Manila that's much urgent and closer incident for you than landslide!The update information can be watched here in Japan on daily news that the army is plotting a kind of riot and all schools are temporarily closed and citizens including even some politicians are protesting against the martial law,right?
Please take care and wish it doesn't affect the start of your new job.