Silly Sighs, Shake-Shake Fries and Apple Pies

I already forgot these bongacious celebrations after each victory or festival we Filipinos have. Money does not matter. We commit ourselves to debt just to get the party going. It’s not fun to pay, but it is to “play”, I mean, party.

Grade 6 graduation is still a big thing in the Philippines despite of the fact that we already copied the US’ K-12 education pattern. I forgot about how important this day to us as Filipino. In the US, we don’t even spend that much for birthday celebrations (just family dinner – mom, dad and kid/s). Grade 6 graduation is unheard of in the US. Embracing part of the US culture, I have kind of forgotten this moment of celebration until I came to know that my kid’s classmates are having special graduation celebration. Then I thought, well, since our kid got a bronze medal for being a consistent honor, maybe after graduation we can hang out at a restaurant for a nice dinner. Hmmm, didn’t happen. I asked her what she wants for dinner and all she answered was, “Shake-shake fries and apple pies!” MacDonald’s has this in the market area. So I descended there bringing back as well my husband’s double cheese burger. I had a MacDo pineapple juice, and a Filipino snack called Bulanghoy (Cassava muffin) I bought from a sidewalk vendor for US$0.20 cents. Simple as that. I made silly sighs and smile of the situation that even if I burnt such old tradition off me, life goes on. There’s a lot of my kid’s classmates celebrating graduation by having a party in their place inviting each other. Doesn’t matter as kiddo is having fun in any way.

By the way, I am not advertising MacDonald’s. Not too fund of fast foods, hence I chose to have Bulanghoy instead of burger or fries.

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