I have never thought that I would experience such a wonderful Christmas in a non-Christian country. A Chinese friend, who is now a successful businessman in Las Vegas once told me that I should not expect too much in China and I should be prepared for worst things. He was not too positive about my plan to work here in China. He asked me that of all the countries I could work, why China? He even advised me that I should not trust people easily, but unfortunately I just didn't heed his friendly advice. I think it's a weakness and a strength to be able to trust people easily. He said that I would find many strange things and that I would not experience the holidays that we celebrate in the Philippines, specially Christmas, my favorite season of the year. So I didn't imagine that there would be Christmas celebration here in China. I thought that it would just be an ordinary day where I have to wake up at 7:00 take a hot shower and prepare for work. Yes, I have conditioned myself that it would just be fine. It was my first time to be at work at Christmas time. So I didn't expect any "Christmas" experience in China at all. I was surprised that some students, the English Club members had prepared a Christmas Party which I never thought would be too special for me. I was moved with their thoughtfulness because I understand that Chinese people don't believe in Christmas but they really had it like the Christmas Party we have at home. It was really fun with all the fruits, biscuits, candies ,balloons. and students' singing performances (including mine haha).
I enjoyed it very much and they even surprised me with a huggable teddy bear (I just love it). The student who gave the bear was dressed as Santa Claus and he was so cute and funny. These students are really sweet. They just didn't know how homesick I was that time. It felt strange not to see some the bright Christmas spirit around specially the stars and all the Christmas decorations, but during that night I saw the entire room transformed into a place with a real Christmas spirit. After the party, when my friend and I were walking back to our dorm, I was hugging the teddy bear and I felt that there were some white glitters on the bear's red dress. My friend told me that it was snow! We stopped walking and just felt the snow falling from the dark sky. We just stood in the middle of the road and I tried to catch some snow. It was not really much but I was too happy to see a real snow in my entire life haha dream come true. Well, I'm still hoping to see more this coming Spring holiday when I'll be visiting in other cities of Jiangsu province.
I have never thought that I would experience such a wonderful Christmas in a non-Christian country. A Chinese friend, who is now a successful businessman in Las Vegas once told me that I should not expect too much in China and I should be prepared for worst things. He was not too positive about my plan to work here in China. He asked me that of all the countries I could work, why China? He even advised me that I should not trust people easily, but unfortunately I just didn't heed his friendly advice. I think it's a weakness and a strength to be able to trust people easily. He said that I would find many strange things and that I would not experience the holidays that we celebrate in the Philippines, specially Christmas, my favorite season of the year. So I didn't imagine that there would be Christmas celebration here in China. I thought that it would just be an ordinary day where I have to wake up at 7:00 take a hot shower and prepare for work. Yes, I have conditioned myself that it would just be fine. It was my first time to be at work at Christmas time. So I didn't expect any "Christmas" experience in China at all. I was surprised that some students, the English Club members had prepared a Christmas Party which I never thought would be too special for me. I was moved with their thoughtfulness because I understand that Chinese people don't believe in Christmas but they really had it like the Christmas Party we have at home. It was really fun with all the fruits, biscuits, candies ,balloons. and students' singing performances (including mine haha). 
I enjoyed it very much and they even surprised me with a huggable teddy bear (I just love it). The student who gave the bear was dressed as Santa Claus and he was so cute and funny. These students are really sweet. They just didn't know how homesick I was that time. It felt strange not to see some the bright Christmas spirit around specially the stars and all the Christmas decorations, but during that night I saw the entire room transformed into a place with a real Christmas spirit. After the party, when my friend and I were walking back to our dorm, I was hugging the teddy bear and I felt that there were some white glitters on the bear's red dress. My friend told me that it was snow! We stopped walking and just felt the snow falling from the dark sky. We just stood in the middle of the road and I tried to catch some snow. It was not really much but I was too happy to see a real snow in my entire life haha dream come true. Well, I'm still hoping to see more this coming Spring holiday when I'll be visiting in other cities of Jiangsu province.
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