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    Reflection Essay: My 2021 Christmas Experience

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    The document is a reflection essay about the author's 2021 Christmas experience in the Philippines. Some key points: - Filipinos celebrate Christmas differently than other countries, emphasizing traditions like Noche Buena, caroling, and Simbang Gabi. - The author believes Christmas has made Filipinos more materialistic, focusing on gifts from a young age. As a child, Christmas meant new toys and snacks under the tree. - For the author, Christmas means spending time with family, decorating inside and out, cooking meals together, and exchanging gifts. Their large extended family congregates at the grandparents' home in Bulacan.

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    Reflection Essay: My 2021 Christmas Experience

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    The document is a reflection essay about the author's 2021 Christmas experience in the Philippines. Some key points: - Filipinos celebrate Christmas differently than other countries, emphasizing traditions like Noche Buena, caroling, and Simbang Gabi. - The author believes Christmas has made Filipinos more materialistic, focusing on gifts from a young age. As a child, Christmas meant new toys and snacks under the tree. - For the author, Christmas means spending time with family, decorating inside and out, cooking meals together, and exchanging gifts. Their large extended family congregates at the grandparents' home in Bulacan.

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    The document is a reflection essay about the author's 2021 Christmas experience in the Philippines. Some key points: - Filipinos celebrate Christmas differently than other countries, emphasizing traditions like Noche Buena, caroling, and Simbang Gabi. - The author believes Christmas has made Filipinos more materialistic, focusing on gifts from a young age. As a child, Christmas meant new toys and snacks under the tree. - For the author, Christmas means spending time with family, decorating inside and out, cooking meals together, and exchanging gifts. Their large extended family congregates at the grandparents' home in Bulacan.

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    Reflection Essay: My 2021 Christmas Experience

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    Michael Angeles
    The document is a reflection essay about the author's 2021 Christmas experience in the Philippines. Some key points: - Filipinos celebrate Christmas differently than other countries, emphasizing traditions like Noche Buena, caroling, and Simbang Gabi. - The author believes Christmas has made Filipinos more materialistic, focusing on gifts from a young age. As a child, Christmas meant new toys and snacks under the tree. - For the author, Christmas means spending time with family, decorating inside and out, cooking meals together, and exchanging gifts. Their large extended family congregates at the grandparents' home in Bulacan.

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    REFLECTION ESSAY: MY 2021 CHRISTMAS EXPERIENCE

    Filipinos celebrate Christmas in a different way than people in other nations. Christmas is the
    most important holiday for Filipinos because we are a Catholic country. Traditions such as
    Noche Buena, Caroling, and Simbang Gabi are always a priority for us. Even though the
    majority of Filipinos regard it positively, I believe that Christmas in the Philippines has turned us
    into materialistic people. I was reared as a child who was exposed to the idea of excessive
    Christmas expenditures and who was always looking for gifts from an early age. As a child,
    Christmas meant acquiring new toys and snacks, as well as waking up to a Christmas tree with a
    pile of presents on Christmas morning.

    Christmas to me is a holiday, which involves spending time with family and friends, beautifying
    the entire house, inside and out, and buying, for the people I love. It means the greatest to me to
    do this with the people I care about. I need to spend Christmas with my family. My
    Grandparents' residence in Bulacan is where we normally congregate and celebrate. I and my
    other relatives rent a vehicle, and the time we spend together in the van is considered bonding
    time for me. For our celebration, my aunties, their spouses, and children travel from a
    neighboring town. Before Christmas eve, we spend time baking cookies, making fudge, creating
    Afritada and Menudo, and cooking a large Christmas meal with all the fixings. The children
    enjoy seeing one another. It's a fun day for them, as they play games and share the new gifts and
    toys Santa Claus gave them. It's difficult to restrict them when they're so anxious to beautify. It's
    enjoyable to spend time with my family over Christmas. It all begins on Christmas Eve when I
    wake up in the morning and prepare to clean the house. To clean the entire house, this technique
    takes around two hours. When the house is clean, my family begins to visit me. The time I spend
    with my family is when we reminisce about old memories from our life throughout the year. My
    family enjoys making a variety of dishes, including tamales. While I'm waiting for the tamales to
    cook, I'm usually on the phone with one of my friends, asking how their preparation went.

    Christmas decorating is a lot of fun. Every year, my father designs a new background scenario
    for the Nativity scene that he exhibits. He, my brothers-in-law, and my husband begin by
    decorating the house's exterior and front yard. My parents add some more to the outside decor
    every year. The inside of the house is decorated by my mother, sisters, our children, and myself.
    My mother has so many indoor decorations that they can't all be displayed at the same time.

    I'm not a big fan of shopping, but I do enjoy it during the holiday season. We normally buy our
    gifts on Shopee and Lazada since the pandemic affects us. We go to a mall one day. The stores
    are lavishly decorated and festively lit. With so much money to spend, I'm prone to get carried
    away. The concept of spending too much money, I must admit, is rarely on my mind. I can just
    imagine the sight on my family's faces, and it brings me such delight. I am extremely blessed to
    have my family at all times of the year, but especially at Christmas. When demonstrating to my
    family how much I value them and what they mean to me. That is extremely significant to me.
    For me, Christmas is about spending time with family, loving one another, and expressing how
    we all feel.

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