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Well, it's 2007! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Christmas in Baguio turned out to be one of the best decisions we've ever made. It wasn't so bad after all. In fact, it was great! Although I didn't get out of the house to roam around the city with my family (just like my youngest sister Golda!), I was content on staying home and just bonding with the family. It was the only time that I would be able to actually hang out with them for that long.

You see, the great thing about our house in Baguio was that it was smaller than our family house. We see each other everyday, in fact, what with our number (9 to be exact) we "bump" into each other a lot! This Christmas, it felt just the way it should be. It was really a time spent with the family together. Now if we were in Vigan for Christmas, I would almost always be found in front of my laptop typing away and surfing the net, or in bed and asleep, or in front of the television. Most of us would be doing our own thing. Sometimes, I'd only see some of my siblings during mealtime. They'd be out with their friends or holed up in their own rooms like me.

So, even if I didn't feel that excited about spending Christmas there in Baguio, I realize now that it doesn't matter where you spend your Christmas, it's whom you spend your Christmas with that matters.

New Year was celebrated here in Vigan. We passed through a town that made fireworks and I insisted that we buy even just a little. We never had a New Year's celebration with fireworks. So we bought sparklers and 2 fountains. My parents didn't want those that were too dangerous. It was okay. The sparklers and fountains turned out to be rip-offs, they didn't even sparkle. But it was quite funny! We screamed and giggled as if it were those big noisy fireworks. Last night, we all helped in preparing the food for the Medya Noche. We ate so much food and drank wine and looked at the fireworks display that our neighbors were lighting up. We laughed and told jokes, shared stories and ate some more.

Tomorrow, I will be going back to Baguio for the start of the classes for this year. The year 2006 ended wonderfully, and I hope that this year, 2007, will be the start of a wonderful journey yet again.