Hello Everyone!!
Or, maybe I should say Mabutay (Tagalog)...
Right now it is about 5:30 am in Manila, Philippines, and I am still not completely adjusted to the time zone haha. Everyone else in our apartment thing is sleeping except me, so I found this the perfect time to update since noone is on skype!
Our flight from Hawaii to Manila was about 10 and a half hours, and it was so, so long. Usually I'm pretty lucky, too with the movies that play in the airplane, because I never go to the movie theaters like ever. So I usually have never seen any of the movies they decide to play. This time, I saw 2 out of the 3 movies they decided to play, and then on the second connecting flight they replayed one of those movies! So I had like nothing to do for quite awhile, because it's so uncomfortable to sleep on the airplanes, always. No matter HOW comfy the seats are!
We finally landed in Manila, and I swear it has been nonstop bickering for my sister and I. I'm just so happy to be here, and she is seriously picking at absolutely everything, so we're fighting just like we're ten again. The first "huge" fight believe it or not started from our beds. We all have our own rooms which is cool since we got one the apartment suites at the hotel here. but anyway. My dad and my sister like completely deserted my mom, aunt, and I in the lobby so we had no idea where to go to the room (my dad claims he was calling 5 times, but I guess for once in about her entire life my sister was the only one paying any attention, haha. After all she got the most sleep out of all of us on the flights ha.). They were at the room long before us, so finally we had to find our own way. I make this sound confusing because; this was one of those hotels where it really depends on the elevator you take and which area the elevator's in to be in the right area. It's broken into different wings and stuff. My dad says it's just like the Ritz-Carlton in Chicago, which I have not stayed out but he has. It's basically like you take one elevator from the lobby to go somewhere, and once you get off that elevator you have to go to a different one on a different part of that new floor to get to your room.
So enough of the elevator talk. Once we got to the room, I was like "Oh okay this is nice!" and stuff, I'm excited. Then I'm trying to find everyone, and my sister is laying, completely sprawled out on her bed like a star face up. I didn't think anything of it since we were all pretty tired; so when I look to find the only room available, of course she picked one of the largest rooms, leaving me with the smallest room with a twin sized bed. Hers was a big bed. I know I shouldnt' complain since, hey; this is an apartment suite and we all have our own rooms. But it's just kindof annoying I guess, because I know that if I were to have claimed that room first, she would have thrown a fit to my dad saying she was older and he would have given her the room. And everywhere we go, I always get the pull out couch bed if our room isn't big enough, and she gets the extra bed. I just wish sometime I could be favored once in a while and get the nicer thing. I even said which was true, "I have been sleeping on a twin size bed since August (which she hasn't because she's at a house in Tucson with a REGULAR sized bed) and you still couldn't let me sleep on this bed for even a couple weeks?" But of course to ALL of our complete surprise, she didnt' care at all, only about her and what she wants. I sometimes don't understand how her boyfriend is still with her, ha.
My mom actually later on when we were talking about beds and stuff again, said "Michelle you probably should've let Tiffany get the bigger bed because she has been sleeping on a tiny bed, and then she has to again here." Want to know what my sister did? Nothing. It was almost like she scoffed. Didn't care at all. I bet that if one of her friends who doesn't treat her nearly as nice as I do wanted the big bed, she'd give it up in a second. But if it comes to anything about me, I'd be the last person on earth to be fed or given anything.
Then, that same night, I used the other side of a huge body towel to dry my face that she has used, and she threw a fit! Somehow, like always, she is able to make my parents believe it is me in the wrong, but honestly I don't know how she did it this time. She even kicked me out of the bathroom, and still my dad was getting mad at me. Maybe it's because they think she's some perfect virgin who doesn't party (Which she doesn't party or anythign like that ever) but man I wish they knew haha. I don't know how she does it.
Really through any argument we have had, my dad doesn't even have to know what she's complaining about and he's already on her side. It annoys me so much, and it's so obvious how much he favors her.
Well, enough about her. I could start a whole new blog on all the complaints i have of my sister, but I simply will not waste my time to talk about her further.
So it's my third day. I have to think back to the first day here... It was all travel, but we did go out to eat at the hotel restaurant which was good. All I have been drinking here since I got here is Calamansi juice, which is a fruit here kindof like a lime but SO much better!
Yesterday was our first full day, so we got up at around 6:45 (willingly, it was actually pretty easy to) and ate breakfast and walked to SM, which is an 8 story mall that is also extremely large on each floor. Basically, biggest mall I've ever been to. Apparently, today we are going to the biggest mall in Asia which happens to be in the Philippines. Yes, anyone who is reading out there that is shocked that Philippines is in Asia. It actually annoys me when people claim and argue with me that it is not in Asia at all. They actually try and argue with someone that is half Asian, with a mom that's full. Then, when I've finally convinced the person that it indeed is in Asia or that it is an Asian country, they go, "Oh- well it's not REALLY completely Asian then."
WHAT?! is that a joke? How does one classify how ASIAN one part of Asia is to the other? As far as I knew, it's as Asian as you can get. I mean, it's sort of like Hawaii, where different parts of of places were 'invaded' by different cultures, or even in a bigger picture, it's sort of like the US in that same way. But that doesn't make it not American because we are all from different cultures. It's not as broad of a mix of cultures like America is, it's like; going back to the history I think Spanish, Chinese, etc. But hey they still have all the slit eye babies which I am absolutely in LOVE with!!! I met my two younger cousins yesterday which one is the sweetest little girl I have ever met in my life, and the other, Jianna, is a BRAT! She is "si arte", which means girly, prim, acts into herself, sortof thing. Just conceited. Want to know how old Jianna is? 2. She is TWO, and already being like that. One of those little girl who uses crying to get what she wants, and gets jealous super, super easy. She has the cutest face ever, pouty all the time; but god is she a brat haha. MJ, the older one who is 6 now, is adorable, and absolutely perfect. And she can shake her little booty, too! I was surprised, haha.
I still haven't had my long wanted pan de sal yet, which is their type of bread roll here. Yes, it is definitely better than French bread, baguettes, anything. It is soft, warm, and has the right amount of everything that bread should have. I love it, although I'll have to try not to eat it too excessively haha! Bread is definitely my weakness.
Well, I think that's about it. Today I know we're going to that big mall, and some place on the beach or something where the fish clean your feet. It sounds absolutely disgusting, especially to me; someone who is as foot phobe as you can get. I guess it's a fun thing to do here that tourists and others do. I guess it feels cool or something (Which i'm sure it does).
I am done for now, but I will try and be back to update again tomorrow or sometime.
I already miss home, but I love it here. I hope everyone is enjoying themselves, and all that have time off are using it well! <3
XOX
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