Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! This isn't our Christmas letter, just a brief account of what I've been up to this Christmas and New Year.
For Christmas, we were at the mission center where we've been staying with a Kalanguya family when we're not in Manila or Baguio or in the village. The people here made Filipino Spaghetti for New Year's Eve dinner, which I think you could make with ketchup, water, extra sugar, hot dogs, ground pork or beef, and optional processed cheese food, if you're in the US, Canada, or anywhere else where they don't sell Filipino Spaghetti mix. They also had Filipino Macaroni salad, which is made with sweetened condensed milk, mayonnaise, macaroni, canned fruit, and processed cheese food. No offense to anyone, but I think I can never get used to sweet macaroni or sweet spaghetti. It just doesn't taste right to me. I guess I just can't stretch my mind far enough to think of macaroni and spaghetti as sweet, dessert like foods.
On Christmas day, we had lunch with some of the other people at the center. Once again, they made big pots of Filipino Spaghetti, as well as Agar Agar, a kind of jello that they make into strands, then add milk, sugar, and fruit to it. It's not bad.
After Christmas, we headed to Baguio city to visit the family we stay with at the center because their daughter was in the hospital. She had just gotten out of the hospital when we arrived. Someone was burning all the time next to the place we stayed for the first two nights (a doctor's house), and I caught a cold because of my allergy to smoke:-(. We also stayed with some friends of Bob's before we came back on Christmas Eve.
It was a little scary when we were almost to the center cause, by then, people were already throwing firecrackers into the streets in front of vehicles, and I was afraid one might land inside of the van that we were riding in. (No one rolled up the windows even though it was getting cold.) Many Filipinos get badly injured every year from fireworks on New Year's Eve and even in the days leading up to that, so it's best to stay inside on New Year's Eve.
New Year's Eve dinner at the center was duck, duck soup, fish, rice, a vegetable, and pancit. I age a lot of duck, which isn't full of fat here cause their home grown ones. As you can see, New Year's is a much bigger celebration than Christmas for the Kalanguya. Then the electricity went out and everyone went to bed.
On Christmas day, we had lunch with some of the other people at the center. Once again, they made big pots of Filipino Spaghetti, as well as Agar Agar, a kind of jello that they make into strands, then add milk, sugar, and fruit to it. It's not bad.
After Christmas, we headed to Baguio city to visit the family we stay with at the center because their daughter was in the hospital. She had just gotten out of the hospital when we arrived. Someone was burning all the time next to the place we stayed for the first two nights (a doctor's house), and I caught a cold because of my allergy to smoke:-(. We also stayed with some friends of Bob's before we came back on Christmas Eve.It was a little scary when we were almost to the center cause, by then, people were already throwing firecrackers into the streets in front of vehicles, and I was afraid one might land inside of the van that we were riding in. (No one rolled up the windows even though it was getting cold.) Many Filipinos get badly injured every year from fireworks on New Year's Eve and even in the days leading up to that, so it's best to stay inside on New Year's Eve.
New Year's Eve dinner at the center was duck, duck soup, fish, rice, a vegetable, and pancit. I age a lot of duck, which isn't full of fat here cause their home grown ones. As you can see, New Year's is a much bigger celebration than Christmas for the Kalanguya. Then the electricity went out and everyone went to bed. 
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