it was hard for me to deal with a certain feeling of being homesick. reason: i was miles and miles and miles and miles and miles away from my country, my friends and my family. that was the first time ever in my whole life to spend Xmas without the Simbang gabi, the puto bumbong, the sight of giant Xmas trees and the giant "BELENS" along Ayala Avenue Makati, and so- being with a new environs, people, and culture- made me felt so terribly homesick. but surprisingly- at the eve of December 24,2002 i was amused so unexpectedly to realize that a disco party was there to ease me, to make my sadness go away..so these are just some of the images i reproduced for the remembrance of my FIRST XMAS AWAY FROM HOME...
Farolitos as they call them- are the signs and symbols of Christmas merry making at the Monastery...and as well as the whole of the State of New Mexico.
farolitos lit gave light to the vast cold chilly freezing evening of December 24, 2002.
dom Andrew, a vietnamese senior helps in the lighting of the famous FAROLITOS...
the FAROLITOS in close-up... being lighted one by one...
the cloister garden was filled with FAROLITOS, too...
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