When you are so far from home, in such tropical country it is hard to feel Christmas spirit. It is around 26-28 C every day, sun and even all the Christmas decoration, songs, shopping mania is not helping. Sometime I think that maybe it is better not to feel that this is special time, it is helping me not to miss much family and be sad. Together with other trainee we decided to go for a trip about of Manila to Bohol. It is island which is part of Visayas Islands about 1 h by plane. Our trip was from 25th morning till 1st of January. I will write more about this trip in next post ;)
What was very nice is the fact that we had chance to spend Christmas Eve with Filipino Family (of my work friend). We (me, Eva and her boyfriend, Milan) went there around 9.30 PM. We were first guests (as always :) ) Whole family gathered around 11PM. We were waiting till Midnight and start the evening :) we started with short pray and thanks for the food and all the good things. Later we started dinner. As always a lot of delicious food but nothing special (traditional) for this evening. After dinner we had some time to talk and after short second prayer. At the end around 1.30 AM it was time to give presents. It happens in the same way as in Poland. Whole evening finished around 2 AM. It was very nice experience to see how Family is important in the Philippines. When we reach home it was already 2.30 AM and we had around 3 h of sleep because at 6 AM we needed to go for an airport and start our trip to Bohol.
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