Feel the Beat, Feel the Rhythm (" VIVA PIT SENYOR")

Addicting beat, sticky feel of sweat and extreme excitement, eardrum busting music that fills the air throughout the day. That was the spirit of Sinulog 2012 .One of the best festival in the world.

   

The Sinulog festival is one of the grandest, most distinguished and most colorful festival in the Philippines. It is held each year on the 3rd Sunday of January in Cebu City to honor Sr. Santo Niño.

The entire celebration was covered by both local and foreign tourists who are taking part of the celebration. Cebu is now one of the tourist attraction and most visited place because of its beautiful destination, most delicious foods especially tourist admire the religious belief of the Cebuano's to the baby Jesus.

 Not just Cebuano's and some of our foreign friends celebrating but also the Celebrities from Manila was part of the event that makes the crowd so noisy.
     Usually, before the Sinulog parade, the city is already full of festivities like the mass in Basilica Del Santo Niño, fluvial parade, beauty contest (MS. CEBU) and Sinulog Idol. 

                                  

Millions of Cebuano's is participating and celebrating the festival. The streets was covered by  people and vendors just to witness the  street dancing. Every year was really one of my unforgettable experienced that I will never ever forget. I am proud to say that I am a Cebuana, and  I  witnessed the Sinulog 2012. Viva Pit Senyor!      

My First Foreign Interface

January 7, 2012 was really amazing because we met korean students who were studying ESL in our school. I felt so excited and a little bit nervous for I don't know what am I going to do or to say during the interface. I just can't believe that we were given a chance to meet and communicate with them. So Sir Jayson paired us. My partner was Honeylyn and we were ready to meet them. 

   We were assigned to this man, Jeon Boo Ho whose English name is Cid, 21 yrs. old and lives in Gong Ju. He is an engineering student, and the youngest among his four siblings. His favorite is Kimchi and here in Cebu, he preferred something fried and in color, he likes black and red. Black for it symbolized night and red for fire. He defined Filipino as kind and funny. During the interface, he asked us first. He asked our name, course, where we live, our parents name and why we choose this course. We answered everything.
   When I questioned how does he define English, he simply said, "English is very hard". We also asked him some Korean word and example of it is Bam gab sum nida which means nice  to meet you. At first I really thought that they are all good in speaking English. I was shocked and surprised when I noticed how they talked and communicate with us. It is an advantage to our side because we know how to speak English unlike them. But I really appreciate their efforts and willingness to study English Language.    

   That was not my first time to see a Korean but it was my first time to talk with them personally.That day was really fantastic. It was a memorable experienced to meet them especially Cid who was very friendly and I'm hoping to meet him again. It was such an honor to know him.