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I'm in Nevada, USA now, and I'm American


January 2007.

Just blogging it.


Well, my first New Year in the Philippines after moving from Mildenhall. It was pretty cool to finally move to another country that isn't cold, and it's not half hot here either. I didn't really have an absolute thing to look forward to, it was pretty easy going. I spent my first months with family, gatherings, and things of that sort. I even managed to kill a 6,000,000 PHP (Philippine Peso) Japanese Coy, that sucked.
Anyways, fast-forward to New Years.

The tradition here, every year, is to buy enough explosives in the form of Firecrackers, enough to blow a house up, or more, and blow it all up on New Years second.
I didn't really expect much, since most of the people here are pretty poor, not starving, but, poor.
I bought about, 500 PHP worth of Fireworks, thinking that it would pretty much OWN everybody around my neighborhood. It was so ******** mistaken.
It wasn't even New Years HOUR when people were blowing stuff up. The Sky, Earth, Ocean, and hands, felt the wrath of the Explosion. Srsly, it sounded like a war out there.
This was coming from like, my neighbor, who gets like 25 cents an hour.

I thought all of this was over, until, New Years came. OMFG, it was awesome.
I can't even describe it in words. It's just one of those things you MUST witness to know.
Yeah, so, I blew up my 10 bucks of Bottle Rockets, Roman Candles, Chinese Chains, M60's, and "pla-pla" aka. Dynamite. This is at the same time when people around me brought out like, "4th of July" times ******** 100. Everywhere you looked, you would see "BOOM", and hands, but that's not the point.

In about 20 minutes, the nations arsenal of explosives, was depleted. And so was everybody's ear-drums. I'm pretty deaf now.
I'm gonna go to sleep. I got exams on the 3rd of January, oh well.

Happy New Years everybody, nice to know you as a friend.

^_^
-Anthony Sarino