New Year Celebration

This is the story of my trip to Manila. If you want to read it from the beginning, click on the links here:  Travel Part1 Travel Part2 First Day First Week Christmas. The next part is here.

New Year is a celebration which is one of the most awaited events for all people in the world. We're celebrating New Year not only because we want our lives to be more progressive but because, it will serve as a new hope for us. We, filipinos, have our beliefs that we always do during the celebration or the welcoming of new year. I’m gonna talk about our celebration and by this you will know some of the beliefs that filipinos have.

 Dec. 31, morning, we went to market to buy stuffs we needed for the celebration. We bought ingredients for the food. Additionally, we bought 12 different fruits with round shapes. It is said that you'll get many money or more blessings for the whole year if you'll be able to complete the 12 fruits. We prepared food in the afternoon so we don’t need to do it during night and we will be able to welcome the New Year (2011). In the afternoon, fireworks arrived that my aunt had ordered. We didn't sleep until the coming of 2011. We also prepared coins which will be scrambled during the welcoming. While waiting for the event, we were at the living room, talking about many things, for instance what we did in the province. We also talked about horror stories and funny things. We talked about my aunt's childhood. Since we're having so much fun, we didn't notice the time until we heard sounds of fireworks from the outside. Oooooooooh, it's New Year. We scrambled the coins. We also put coins in our pockets since in our beliefs, it is said that if you do this, you will never get out of money for the whole year. Then, it's fireworks time. Yahoooo! Fireworks are there during New Year celebration so that its sounds will drive away all the bad lucks or the negatives. We were at the outside that time. We saw neighbors driving along having cans tied at the back of their motorcycles. This was to produce noise. After fireworks, we ate. We were so full. Then, it was party time. We sang and danced. I'll never forget my aunts dancing accompanied by a song entitled “Staying alive” by Beegees. I just laughed at them. I took a video of them. They told me to erase it but I didn't. I keep it to remember that moment. I will never erase it. Hehehe.

This is how we celebrate New Year. Now that it was New Year already, it means another year of our lives. New hopes and new life that God has given to us! Another chance to straighten our curved actions! We should be thankful for this another year, new life that is given to us. We should cherish this moment since it just happen once in a year. Good Luck for us! God Bless!