Things I love about Christmas! Reminiscing my Childhood

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3 years ago
Topics: Christmas, Childhood

I guess every child is excited about Christmas!. Why? Because traditionally, their Godfather and Godmother are obliged to give some gifts, either toys or money to them.

In my case, here are the things I love about Christmas when I was a kid.

Carroling.

Second week of december, we are starting to collect bottle caps already or what we call in our mother tongue (tagalog) as "tansan".

This is how it looks like:

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We roam around each garbage place, and stores day by day to find and collect bottle caps around.

When we have enough number of it already (20 caps or more), we make tambourine using it.

What we do is, we put a hole in the middle of each cap using a nail. Once done making hole to each of the bottle caps, we will then find some wire and form a circle using it. After that, we will the wire in the hole of each caps.

Finish product:

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And then we will form a group of three or more. When we don't have the DIY tambourine, what we also do is find a CAN or a Gallon container and then pick up a stick and make a sound using it (like a drum).

And then we will wait for December 16th (the official start of "Simbang Gabi"). Each night from December 16th to December 24th, we will go to each houses, sing any Christmas carol that we know and share our angelic voices (charot!) with them.

But then given the poor life in the province, we're lucky enough to bring home 5 pesos each for each night of our caroling because most of the time what you will hear from them is the famous word "Patawad!"

Monito Monita.

Did you also experienced this? Two weeks before the Christmas Vacation at school, our teacher usually organize this kind of exchanging gift. We will basically think of any code names we want, and tell it to our teacher. The teacher will then make a drop box with our code names in it.

Each one of us will be asked to pick one and whoever that codename we picked will be our Baby. Baby as in each week or day (depending on the mechanics), the teacher will set the "Something" or the "Theme" of the gift that we need to give to our Baby.

Let's say for example this week's theme is "Something Long". We need to think of a thing that corresponds to "something long", wrap it around with old newspapers or any scratch papers and put it in the designated area in out classroom.

The challenge in this monito-monita gift is that finding out who your baby is. So each one of us, to be able to hide our identity, we usually pick the items with our codenames from the designated area when no one is around. We need to make sure that no one is around.

During the Christmas Party, we will need to bring our Final Gift to our Monito or Monita. We should comply with the minimum amount set by our teacher.

The "code-name reveal" happens in the Christmas Party during the actual exchange gift.

It's kind of fun, I remember when I was in second year high-school, I always receive double gift. Why? My classmate who has crush on me discovered my code-name and each day, he keeps on dropping a gift in our designated gift dropping area (haba ng hair ko diba?).

Christmas Party.

I guess, this is one of the most awaited moment in school during my schooldays. Parents ought to buy new clothes for us which we will wear during our Christmas party. So the school Christmas Party became the venue for the students to have new clothes and shoes.

I am excited to attend the Christmas Party at school back then because I am so excited for the exchange gift portion!. I am so excited to receive a gift from my classmate. I just so love the thrill and suspense while opening the gifts really :).


How about you? What are the things that make you excited about Christmas during your childhood days? I will love to read it out in the comment section below.

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Aigoo! Na.experienced ko 'to lahat noon sis. Kakamiss, ano? Hehe.. Sarap balikan yung times na yun. Hindi ko talaga makalimutan na experience about caroling is yung hinabol kami nang aso..Haha..

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3 years ago

Ahahah..awa ng Diyos hindi ko naman dinanas na habulin ng aso... e di karipas kayo ng takbo...hehehe

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3 years ago

Ayy oo sis.. Kaya nung sumunod na araw, di na ako ulit pinayagan na sumama..Haha

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2 years ago

Naku sis delikado djn naman kasi makagat ng aso

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2 years ago

This brought back a lot of memories, especially seeing that DIY tambourine, we also made something like that back in the days and then we use abandoned buckets and gallon container to make drums

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3 years ago

Yeah, evwrything that produces sound, like stones, sticks, etc can be used

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3 years ago

While reading your article I do reminiscing about my child hood days too during xmas. How funny it was πŸ’–πŸ€—

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3 years ago

Yep...it made our childhood memorable..

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3 years ago

Yes super true πŸ€—

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3 years ago

kami dati pagka patak ng September ayun ready na kami agad ng mga tansan haha tas go na sa mga bahay bahay para mangaroling hahaha good old days

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3 years ago

Ang aga naman sis.september...pero ang saya maalala yung minsan napupukpok pa ang kamay sa pagbubutas ng tansan kasi bato lang ang gamit pamukpok sa pako..

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3 years ago

Yung exchanging gift talagang pinakamsaya ko sa pasko, lalo nat sa paaralan kung ano2 lang ang ibalot, and worth 100 HAHHAA

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3 years ago

Ay wow..sa amin po dati worth of 10 to 20 pesos lang ang halaga ng pang exchange gift..hehehe

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3 years ago

I missed being in a group of carolers. I've spent every Christmas of childhood in the neighborhood singing Christmas songs and people give us goodies or money. At the end of our caroling, we will divide equally what we get in the neighborhood. It was fun doing it with friends :)

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3 years ago

Yeah!...those days makes our childhood so memorable..I hope kids nowadays can also have the opportunity to experience such..

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3 years ago

Yung exchanging gifts yung pinaka namiss ko sis. Hindi ko na kasi naranasan mag exchange ng gifts nung high school ako, ang sarap balik-balikan yung mga moment nung Christmas party sa elementary

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3 years ago

Ou sis..sobrang nakaka excite ..hehe..sarap maalala yung suspense na tawagin ng teacher yung name mo..hahaha

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3 years ago

Haha, oo nga sis, nakakaexcite din magbukas nung gifts na matatanggap natin

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3 years ago

Korek sis..hahaha...kahit alam na puro sitsirya lang ang laman..saan ba naman aabit ang 10 pesos diba..hehehe

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3 years ago

Yung caroling po ang nakakamiss ngayong pasko,kung wala po sanang pandemic siguradong mangsngaroling mga pinsan ko ngayon haha

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3 years ago

Ayun nga din..wala tuloy thrill noh kapag walang carolling

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3 years ago

Yung caroling ang namiss ko hahaha. Kaya nun first time mangaroling ng anak ko eh mas ako un excited eiπŸ˜‚

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3 years ago

Ahahhaa..same here sis... nung first time may nag aya sa anak ko para mangaroling eb tuwang tuwa ako... pag lumaki laki na ito si bunso, sasama na din itong mangaroling

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3 years ago

Hahaha, allowed na yata ng cariling ngayin eh

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3 years ago

Ayy nakakamiss nga po yang mga yan especially the Monitor at Monita heheh. Yung talaga isa sa mga highlights ng Christmas party eh tsaka yung mga pa-games haha.

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3 years ago

Yeah, yung sangjatutak na parlor games..pero common na ata trip to Jerusalem

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3 years ago

I have heard about " monito monita". I must say it is very cool. It makes the fukipinos unique in their Christmas festivity.... We we were young we use knockouts and Rico lights to disturb the neighborhood at nights. Lol. I usually move with boys at that age.

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3 years ago

Those traditions make thrill to our childhood

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3 years ago

Ay !super nakakamis naman yang mga bagay na yan ,may nangangaroling pa bang mga bata ngayon sis?Pansin ko mga mga matatanda naπŸ˜…

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3 years ago

dito sa amin sis sa Cavite? usually kapag 24 ng gabi nalang eh.

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