counting the days....

for most people the christmas countdown starts on the first day of september....for me it started way earlier! there is no christmas better than the one celebrated in manila...the festivities, the food, the atmosphere...these things are always worth coming back to. and so the song goes..."hinahanap-hanap kita manila..." i guess some people are right in saying that for me to move on with my new life here, i should start letting go of the life i left in manila. perhaps for someone my age, who has had a (quite) full (and happy) life in manila, moving on will never be easy. my children have adjusted quite well to a north american way of life, i am the one who is having a hard time. and so after almost a year, there are still days when i wish i'm back home in manila. but then again, times are always changing, nothing is pemanent in this world they say, so maybe in time i will learn to live and love the life here...but for now, i am counting the days...until i'm home again.