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Simbang Gabi!

Wow, it's really Christmas. I can't wait! And again, December 16 will be the first day/night of the Filipino people will go to church every dawn or every night (the Simbang Gabi ). Of course, every dawn, we'll wake up at exactly 4:00am, it finds me such a very cold and tired, but Filipinos are really being their own tradition, in which this Simbang Gabi will be a 9 consecutive days, and on the 24th of December, we finally made the 9 days of church. Traditional, it's just that many Filipinos have their own beliefs that after you've made it or when they have completed those 9 days/nights to church. Their wishes will be granted. But that finds me a childish feelings. It may be an individuals trade, but of course, we are gonna be sensitive enough or be aware that we do it for Christ and not for our own wants. It's a healthy hobby of waking up early in the morning , and those people who lives in just near to the church, it's an advantage for you guys. You...