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My Trip To The Philippines - Paper

My Trip To The Philippines

In September 1989, when I was 11 year old, I came to Philippines during my
short vacation. My father brought the whole family, also my cousin Jimmy.
We spent 5 days in the Philippines. During these five days, I realized that
there were many differences between Taiwan and the Philippines. The most
difference was culture. People's language, behavior and also they are happy
go lucky.

The first problem I faced was the language problem. Philippine was ruled by
Spanish long time ago. Most of Filipino could speak Spanish. I could not
speak their language and also English, so what ever they said I just acted
like stupid. I still remembered when I went to Cebu, in the hotel, the
waiter came in to ...

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are their culture,
you will never see this in Taiwan." In Taiwan, everybody use chopsticks to
eat. Nobody will use spoon and folk to eat, because that's a kind of hard.
Just like my first time used the spoon and folk. I doesn't know either to
use my left hand to hold spoon or use my right hand.

People have longer weekend than Taiwan. Both Sunday and Saturday are their
weekend. In Taiwan, we can only have Sunday and half Saturday. For adults,
they even only have Sunday to rest. That's unfair to adults. They should
have longer weekend then kids, because they worked so hard. So, adults most
be exhausted after hard work.

People are happy go lucky. They wouldn't care much money they earn each day.
They wanted to have better life than earning more money. Whenever they got
a serious problem, like no place to overnight, they were try to find a
place to stay like bus station. But if they couldn't find it, they won't
worry too much. Also, when I'm in downtown, they always smile at me. ...

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Added: 4/1/2006 09:37:39 AM
Category: Creative Writing
Type: Premium Paper
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