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This morning I woke up at 3 in the morning to prepare for my flight.
As I am always scared of flying (specially on long -haul trip like
this) I just followed the advised of my husband to take this
opportunity to read books or watch movies that I missed during the
trip. I was excited to see that more than 90% of passengers on this
plane that I took were filipino going back home. "Balikbayan' as we
call them: for I am still 14 hours far from being home but here we
are and I already start to hear tagalog conversations, jokes and
filipinos chatting endlessly with their friends. And when our plane
finally touched down at half past eight morning the next day, I said
'home sweet home". A big welcome home entourage is part of our
cultural tradition (the reason why visitors welcoming arriving guests
are requested to pay so as to discourage them of entering the airport)
I knew that my whole family will be there to welcome me, and I was
right. I am so glad to see my entire family waiting and waving their
hands when they saw me going out of the arrival area. The jeepney
rented by my sister was already eagerly waiting outside the airport,
it took us four hours drive to reach back home ( 2 hours drive + 2
hours stocked in the traffic jam) , well I am really here in my dear
Philippines.
The next morning I had salted fish with fresh tomatoes,fried rice, hot
choco and lots and lots of bananas and mangoes for my breakfast really
really good!! well after this heartful breakfast I went to meet the
members of our workshop in Dasmarinas Cavite. As usual I started by
distributing gifts from France ( as this is part of our cultural
tradition again) everybody were so happy and excited. We have
discussed plenty of problems and expectations of this mission here and
the result of the meeting was very positive. We will designate
different task for each member and we will need to present the result
of our assignment by Tuesday next week (as May first is also a non-
working holiday here)Our meeting ended up at around 6 in the evening
but everybody rested to help of Ate Christy our coordinator to
decorate her house with flowers of bougainvilla and hibiscus for the
birthday party of her daughter tomorrow. Of course the entire
neighborhood is invited.
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