My Trip to the Philippines :: Philippines Vacation Personal Narrative Essays

My Trip to the PhilippinesIn September 1989, when I was 11 year old, I came to Philippines during my shortvacation. My father brought the whole family, also my cousin Jimmy. We spent 5days in the Philippines. During these five days, I realized that there were manydifferences between Taiwan and the Philippines. The most difference was culture.Peoples language, behavior and also they are riant go lucky.The first problem I faced was the language problem. Philippine was ruled bySpanish long time ago. Most of Filipino could chatter Spanish. I could not speaktheir 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 askme something about my room. First, I was shock, then I used Chinese to dressher. The waiter was miscellany too. She started using Spanish, Japanese, French toanswer me, but he never used Chinese. If he used Chinese, then that will be thetime for me to reply. I run to my fath ers room, crying, and telling thatsomeone is in my room and I doesnt know why he was there. After my fathersolved the problem for me. We were all laughing about it.My father said, In the Philippines, have with hands are their culture, youwill never see this in Taiwan. In Taiwan, everybody use chopsticks to eat.Nobody will use spoon and folk to eat, because thats a kind of labored. Just likemy first time used the spoon and folk. I doesnt know either to use my left handto hold spoon or use my right hand.People have longer weekend than Taiwan. Both Sunday and Saturday are theirweekend. In Taiwan, we can only have Sunday and fractional Saturday. For adults, theyeven only have Sunday to rest. Thats unfair to adults. They should have longerweekend then kids, because they worked so hard. So, adults most be exhaustedafter hard work.People are happy go lucky. They wouldnt care much money they earn each day.They wanted to have better life than earning more money. Whenever they got aserious problem, like no place to overnight, they were try to find a place to