In the Philippines, August is Buwan ng Wika or the National Language Month. In celebration of such an event, most (if not all) schools in the Philippines held at one time this month a program honoring the Filipino language, through songs, dances, plays and of course food. More like the entire Filipino culture.

In Raine’s school, the celebration was earlier today, where all the children came in Filipino traditional outfits. I wasn’t sure if Raine will not get irritated by the Barong Tagalog so i dressed him up like a little katipunero.

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that ended up looking like a little rice farmer.

Don’t be fooled by that sweet smile for he didn’t get into that costume willingly. ;-P

The program lasted almost two hours. Raine who cannot last five minutes sitting down, was lookign like this after less than an hour:

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But i guess he enjoyed it, dancing magtanim ay di biro and singing the lupang hinirang (the philippine national anthem)

Raine’s version:

… sa magiling…mamatay…mamahal…bubuhay.

He’s barely four…so!

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