One of the traditions of Christmas, which I'm sure you're all aware of, is walking around singing Christmas carols. Well in the Philippines, they take it a little more to the extreme. Every night a few weeks before Christmas the kids walk the streets and sing carols hoping to get some money, food, clothing, anything that people are willing to give. They stand outside the gates of the houses of wealthier people. On wednesday night I went to my friends Gil and Sara's house. They live in a province so they have all Philipino neighbors. It was really fun. We just sat by the gate and waited for the kids to come up and sing to us. They sang songs in both Tagalog and English, and we also sang a few in both languages to them. Then once they were done singing, we gave them some cookies and candy. It's better to give them food than money because they usually have to hand over the money to someone else, but the food they can eat. They are the sweetest children. It's so amazing to hear them singing about God and Jesus. God is beautiful and I can see Him in these children! Click here to see pictures of them. 
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It's like a mix between Halloween trick or treating and christmas caroling. :) I'm gonna miss it next year!
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